Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change September 16, 2011

The impact of climate change in Canada is discussed by those at its front lines. In this historic documentary by the legendary Isuma Productions, Inuit people speak first-hand about how their landscape is changing, how the sky has turned colour and if the polar bear really is endangered. Their insight – borne from centuries of shared knowledge – reveals a deep intimacy with their environment and convincingly challenges mainstream media accounts of climate change. Unsettling accounts of new flora, thawing permafrost and dwindling ice point directly to the truth that climate change has become a human rights issue for many Indigenous people.

Directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro
Canada | 2010 | 54 minutes | Inuit with English subtitles

Official Website: http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/films/2011/09/16/qapirangajuq-inuit-knowledge-and-climate-change/