-miut

Mitchell Art Gallery | 2024

The -miut zine is based on an exhibit that ran January 19 – March 28, 2024 at the Mitchell Art Gallery, guest curated by Ooleepeeka Eegeesiak. This zine invites Inuit living in the south, or outside of Inuit Nunangat, to submit any artistic expressions (visual and/or writing) that reflect upon home, being Inuk, land, and kinship, released in 2024.

The suffix “-miut” is found in Inuit languages across dialects. It is a word modifier meaning “people of” when attached to a place name. This identifier subverts constructed lines between people and land, as these toponyms are often related to ecological characteristics. Belonging to place is deeply embedded in what it means to be Inuk. We are the land, our kinship geographies, our generational knowledges.

-miut considers what it means to be an Inuk living in Treaty 6 and 7 with work by Atsinak Bishop, Alberta Rose W./Ingniq, Kablusiak, Sarah Whalen Lunn, and Yvonne Moorhouse.