Traditional Knowledge

A TV Phone-in show about Inuit Maternity Care, called

"Birth: a joyous community event"

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• "Bringing Birth Back": Midwifery Implementation in Nunavut,  Kerstin Gafvels, Department of Health and Social Services, Government of Nunavut

           Delivered at the Circumpolar Rounds, Stanton Territorial

           Hospital, Yellowknife, January 28, 2010

• Podcast: Aboriginal Midwifery in Canada
  

  In this 20 minute documentary, First Nations, Inuit and Métis midwives and representatives from Aboriginal organizations discuss the challenges, benefits and significance of Aboriginal women taking control of this most sacred ceremony and bringing it back home. 
  Author: National Aboriginal Health Organization
  
  

• Women - Health - Body:
  A series of unedited interviews with traditional midwives of Igloolik, Nunavut.
  Author: Arnait Video Productions
  
  
  
• Special Report on Traditional Midwifery | Inuktitut version
  Author: Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada , Suvaguuq 1995
  
  
• Knowledge Translation Project , Tungasuvvingat Inuit
  
  Video recordings of elder Qapik Attagutsiak's health messages have placed into an interactive cd-rom format. The cd-rom was officially launched on National Aboriginal Day with elder panel, academic and community researcher presentations. In addition, the project has been presented this summer at conferences in Saskatchewan and Russia.
  
  Call the Inuit Family Resource Centre at (613) 749-4500 ext. 10 or 12 for more information.

• Off The Beaten Track : Recollections of Medicine Among the Eskimos
  
  
• Interviewing Inuit Elders: The Series

• Uqalurait - An Oral History of Nunavut
  See Chapter 18, pgs. 196-208 on "Singaijuq (Pregnancy) and Irnisuktuq (Labour)"