(Re)Claiming cultural identity: the NFB’s Eskimo Legends and Inuit Animation from Cape Dorset

• Main Author: Buchan, Suzanne
• Other Authors: Marchessault, Janine, Straw, Will
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2019
• Subjects: Canada; Cape Dorset; Indian; Lorna; Nunavut; eskimo*; inuit
• Online Access: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/17087/; https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190229108.013.6

The NFB’s Animation Department has produced internationally respected animated films based on aboriginal culture and heritage. In the 1970’s, with support from the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, the NFB produced a series of films on Inuit legends that were participatory in nature, includ...