Project Researcher Darren Keith interviews Kugaaruk Elders. left to right: Gino Aqqaq, Otto Apsaktuan, Guy Kakkianiun, Jose Angutinguniq and Levi Illuitok (behind Darren).
Frank Analok talks about Tikiraaryuk as being a place where people build iglus and hunted seals.
Welcome to the Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas
The Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas is the result of an ongoing program of place name recording in the communities of the Kitikmeot Region, led by the Kitikmeot Heritage Society. The purpose of the project is to comprehensively record the traditional Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun place names of the region, including their pronunciations, meanings and associated oral traditions. This work will ensure that the region’s place names will continue to be known to future generations of Nunavummiut.
The Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas is a work in progress that will continue to improve and expand with time. Our goals are to:
- expand it to cover the complete landuse areas of the communities of Kugaaruk, Gjoa Haven and Cambridge Bay (Done!),
- record more multimedia content by working with Elders in Kugaaruk, Gjoa Haven and Cambridge Bay, and add this content to the site,
- develop a user input function on the site that will allow community members, researchers and others to contribute place name and multimedia content to the site (Done!),
- add a topographic map background as an option to the satellite imagery background currently on the atlas; and,
- interest other communities in the region in becoming part of the Atlas.