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Who is that and what community is this? He dances some great newfie jig you!
Tina, no clue who it is… but it was filmed in Iqaluit.
Hi guys! I’m the one who made this video. I just googled it and had no idea it was being posted all over the place. haha. As for “who”.. the dancing guy and I are coworkers, friends and practise making videos together. We are both Inuk and we live in Iqaluit, Canada. Hope you enjoyed it.
Becky,
LOVE the video is more like it! When I lived in Arctic Bay the jig was everything at community dances… And now that I live in the Yukon, it’s the same. I showed the video to my students this morning and they loved it too.. Although they did point out that Inuk jigging is different from Kaska jigging.
Keep the videos coming!
Cool.
I’d be interested to see what Kaska jigging is like, I’ll have to “youtube” it sometime. And that’s neat you lived in Arctic Bay. You would have known my uncle than i’m sure (Tommy Kilabuk). He was quite the character. Thanks for your kind words and for showing your students my little video. Big love and respect from Nunavut. 
Excellant video Becky. You should mention the dancers name. You call him Anguti Johnston in you video but the CBC calls him Thomas Johnson. Which is right ?
I know when I was teaching in Nunavut, many students would give me their “western” name rather than their given (Inuit) name. I always tried to use their given (Inuit) name as much as possible – it took a lot of practice to pronounce them correctly, but the students appreciated my efforts, even when I mispronounced their names. Some laughed at my efforts and just told me flat out “don’t bother, call me by my quallunat name”