Northern Restoration

Zacharias Kunuk brought oral culture into the digital age by creating his own form of journalism, one that tells stories from the inside out. And he's unrepentant about the one-sidedness of his approach

Television first came to the North in the late 1960s at the request of mining companies that wanted to keep their transient workers occupied through long, dark Arctic winters with southern sitcoms and soap operas. No one consulted the local Inuit population. Transmissions were in French and English and came in one direction: in. One […]