Best Inuit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Polar Intuit of northwest Greenland, the northernmost people, call February ‘seqinniaq’, “the month when the sun appears.”

Sun February Inuit North

Author:Fred Bruemmer

“The danger is going back with this colonial attitude and disseminating information like the Inuit don't have history there.”

Canada Colonialism Explorers Indigenous People Colonial History Adventure Travel Inuit Artic Indigenous History Colonised

Author:Gayle Kabloona

“Show respect to the land and the people who have kept it pristine for your adventures.”

Indigenous People Indigenous Wisdom Inuit Artic

Author:Gayle Kabloona

“colonialism benefits from dispossessing indigenous people of their land and writing us out of history”

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Author:Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona

“She would follow him there. And she would die there -- and die soon. Of misery and of strangeness and of all the vicious, petty, alien, and unbridled thoughts that would pour into her like the poison from the Goldner tins poured into Fitzjames -- unseen, vile, deadly.”

Civilization Exploration Inuit Northwest Passage

Book:The Terror

Source: The Terror

“The Vikings could have been saved if they had borrowed survival strategies from the Inuit, but the only record we have of contact between the two peoples is the remark from a Viking settler that the Inuit bleed a lot when stabbed - an observation that hardly indicates a willingness to learn from their northern neighbors.”

Survival Vikings Greenland Inuit

Book:Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Source: Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

“Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman's pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?”

Gender Inuit

Book:The Wolf in the Whale

Source: The Wolf in the Whale

“Just as I was man and woman, just as the fanged aarluk was wolf and whale, my people could not be contained in a single god.”

Religion Inuit

Book:The Wolf in the Whale

Source: The Wolf in the Whale

“We have a weakness of not learning from the natives, but rather teaching them.”

Weakness Colonialism White Supremacy Inuit Natives

Author:Vilhjálmur Stefánsson

“A few years later, in Inukjuak, I learned that SFU is the Inuit texting acronym for "snowmobile fucked up," and that POOS is the acronym for "passed out on snowmobile.”

Humor Texting Inuit Snowmobile

Book:At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic

Source: At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic

“Why would I continue life as a man trapped in a girl’s body when I could just as easily fly into the heavens or run with the wolves?”

Gender Inuit

Book:The Wolf in the Whale

Source: The Wolf in the Whale

“The wolf is not bound to its shape. It can change form at will, transforming to a whale when it must swim in the sea. Seeing the whale, no one would ever suspect it had once been a wolf.”

Inuit Inuit Mythology

Book:Olympus Bound

Source: Olympus Bound

“Martie was large, at least by Inuit standards, with skin the colour of an heirloom suitcase and a voice like a cartoon train wreck.”

Mystery Inuit

Author:McGrath M. J.

“Meg, you have to go. I can't.”

Arctic Mystery Suspense Inuit Canadian Far North

Book:Arctic Blue Death

Source: Arctic Blue Death

“She heard the man calling, "Keep to the left, if you want to get home and see your father and mother." But she kept running along the smooth road, and just then she looks back, and she is out of the sea and into the air; and as she looks back the trail behind her fades away... - Ada Blackjack, "The Lady in the Moon”

Survival Story Inuit Ada Blackjack

Book:Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

Source: Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

“Inuit are tired of white people coming to our lands, calling it desolate and unforgiving and continuing the narrative of 'triumph over the elements.' We all have history here. A generation ago, people were born in tents and spent their lives traversing the Arctic. We have respect for the land for supporting us and the generations who came before us.”

Colonialism Arctic White People Explorer Inuit Adventurers

Author:Gayle Kabloona

“We go and do the things that you're calling exploring and adventuring ... and [for us] it's just regular life.”

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Author:Gayle Kabloona

“I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's book illustrators or illustrators in general - all the kinds of work that my paintings would draw comparisons to.”

Wells Kind Children Art Book Painting Draws Folks Comparison Museums Children's Books Illustrators Inuit Folk Art

Author:Neil Farber

“The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.”

Should Art Book Collections More Time Gallery Art Galleries Inuit Winnipeg

Author:Neil Farber

“I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.”

Art Drawing Watercolors Inuit

Author:Marcel Dzama

“Winnipeg has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world, I believe. They can be quite simple in a great way and often have sparse backgrounds and isolated characters. They often have a really great look to them.”

World Way Believe Looks Art Character I Believe Simple Backgrounds Collections Isolated Really Great Inuit Winnipeg

Author:Marcel Dzama

“The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation.”

Kind Tree Fruit Oil Apples Vegetables Fewer Equations Fruits And Vegetables Apple Trees Inuit

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.”

People Knows Heaven Stars Shining Holes Shining Through Inuit

Book:Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.”

Men Doe Might Lying Example Approach Advantage Assuming Edges Absence Stealing Traditional Ice Witness Village Hunting Cheat Alaska Murphy Inuit

Author:Martha Stout

“It must've been Albert's military background, because man, when he dropped a bomb the entire country shook. I was still jittery as a hurricane survivor in New Orleans, and I was sure that somewhere in Alaska some poor Inuit had just taken a tumble from his sled for the very same reason.”

Men Stills Country Reason Poor Taken Military Backgrounds Bombs Survivor New Orleans Hurricanes Alaska Inuit

Author:Jennifer Rardin

“Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.”

Believe Soul Stories Unique Capture Inuit

Book:Icefire

Source: Icefire

“An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?”

“I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.”

Children Long Helping Shapes Long Time Phrases Long Time Ago Proverbial Inuit

Author:Romeo LeBlanc

“According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.”

People Persons Soul Body Form Culture Six Seven Tiny Greenland Inuit

Book:For the Time Being

Source: For the Time Being

“A good salesman, as the old (and politically incorrect) saying goes, can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. It's a cliché, but there's some truth to it: Inuit who live above the Arctic Circle use insulated refrigerators to keep their food from freezing in subzero temperatures”

Use Sells Circles Temperature Salesman Refrigerators Arctic Freezing Inuit

Book:The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

Source: The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business