The Ulukhaktok Western Drummers and Dancers - Inuvialuit HD Drum Dance Series

Promo video for the Ulukhaktok Western Drummers and Dancers. Shot in and around Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, September 2012. Produced and directed by Tony Devlin for the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and Black Fly Studios.

[@justthegirl9799]

Im a Pacific Islander and the hand movements is a bit similar, the physical features and statues. What an awesome coincidence.

[@woohooo7634]

Omg, lol, I'm half native Hawaiian and half eskimo and I noticed that too.

[@samishaniyy]

Woohoo :o , I thought eskimo was an offensive term.

[@raeawan3786]

G yes, it is, but if you’re inuk you can say it and teach others not to

[@samishaniyy]

Rae Savea , that is stupid

[@raeawan3786]

G not stupid, but ig ur choosing to say a slur

[@jackiemudd7768]

Qu Wha Tsi! My Dear Native Brothers and Sisters, I am from The Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, and I just want to let you know how wonderful you are for keeping your culture of music and dances alive.. It is so very important also that you stay sober and clean, free from drugs and alcohol so that you remain strong and pure for the next generations. My prayers for you are that The Great and Mighty ABBA Father YaHu WaH protect you and keep you close to His Heart today and Forever...Please stay Strong in Him because He loves you...

[@HugoBrown]

Awesome ....Loving seeing other indigenous peoples and culture still being kept alive and been passed on.

[@savannahlawson2869]

0:42 you can tell she's having so much fun dancing :,) her smile is contagious

[@selendriamuganogo7077]

All indigenous people no matter the continent have a dance and music, and they are super spritual and respect nature... What happened to us

[@dn2ze]

Selendria Muganogo in Canada Indigenous cultures is alive and strong.

[@skylerarroniz4204]

Isn’t Alaska to Brazil the same continent

[@woohooo7634]

@@dn2ze Uh, stop lying. Canada genocided their indigenous population _just like America did._ AND afterwards, y'all treated the indigenous people worse than America did. It is _by no means_ alive and well.

[@thatoneperson8154]

@@woohooo7634 you are right crimes against indigenous woman is still high and hardly to never covered in Canadian media it's honestly sad

[@ChristIsRisen33]

The predominantly white Europeans wiped us out with their "civilization"

[@jimmylies1186]

I love my great ancestors. I never get to see something like this. I an inuk from quebec

[@Freiya2011]

Please, please DO be proud of your unique culture! I very much liked this video. Greetings from Germany

[@team10leader1]

This, the drum-dancing, the inuit culture, this is going to outlive us long after our generation has passed on! This is my wish and I'm proud of it! :)

[@rorygurrin7233]

GREAT TO SEE SUCH GREAT CULTURE SURVIVING TODAY! THANKS A MILLION

[@fernandosoares8619]

the human being is amazing , their culture are totally different.

[@AndersJensenTH]

I'm an Inuk from Greenland. Sending you all Love and Kindness from Thailand.

[@lizlika1227]

And for videos such as this, I love KZbin...I would love to visit my Native relatives to the North and enjoy their company and stories :)

[@hawknives]

Key words......healing to the heart!

[@hawknives]

***** Blacks got the Best Rhythm and Voices, in my opinion! Mitakuye Oyasin!

[@roopchahal5893]

Liz Lika which country is that ?

[@joeygallaornsr.5748]

I am from Up North Alaska. A village named Point Hope Ak. I absolutely love to dance and sing too.

[@ruthannbishop9325]

Wow so great.. Inuit dancers beat the drum from underneath.. each displaying syle unto own yet .. concerns remain the same .. loss of traditonal dance drumming, dress, elders, community.Thanks for sharing and have this too look for next generation to pass on to as well as traditional teaching of ancetors and opportunity for me to see since so far south in Ontario

[@TheRajmoney]

Thank you for keep reminding who we really are. Happy moments, hunting, fishing, travelling...

[@rocioaguilera3555]

The Inuit's culture is amazingly interesting. I liked Inuit music 🎵🎶 and dancing since I was a teenager, and I'm 63 now. Thanks for this video.

[@letsbreatheinnature6458]

Beautiful and healing! Thank you! May there be more peace and love in the world! ❤❤❤

[@brrblack497]

The Master Creators real people . These people lived off the land in peace for thousands years never harming their environment . So beautiful .

[@lloydlacy7600]

Indigenous pride worldwide

[@morali3941]

It's a shame how all this was almost extermined. Imagine how all these cultures could have emerged, how nations could have evolved, languages, ideas, social structures. As a south american, I always have this on my mind, what America could have brought to the world just as Europe, Asia and Africa did.

[@dn2ze]

Marcos Alexander Mora Lizcano Canada kept the Treaties with indigenous people, Same Treaties Americans broke, plus we have laws and Treaty Rights protecting and preserve our cultures and languages. Plus it even protects it from wannabes and cultures vultures. That’s why you never see any blacks claiming to be Native in Canada. Plus we have mixed Natives too but they are their own people with their own culture and language mixture of Native and European Mixed together.

[@EG-ne7yp]

What did Africa bring? Natural resources?

[@woohooo7634]

@@dn2ze Uh, Canada treated it's indigenous people a MILLION times worse than America did. Remember when your government put Eskimo children in boarding schools (they were forcibly taken from their parents) where they suffered sexual, emotional, physical, verbal and mental abuse? Remember when y'all couldn't pronounce our names, so y'all gave us numbers? I can go on..... I think It's disgusting that Canada acts like it's better than America in any way, shape, or form.

[@woohooo7634]

@@EG-ne7yp They were the cradle of humanity, and once were a part of the epicenter of scientific research. In addition, I think you are forgetting about the dozens and dozens of ethnic groups and cultures.

[@EG-ne7yp]

@@woohooo7634 Hello! "Y'all." Who are you even talking about? Im Russian and neither I nor my country has anything to do with the things you describe. Jesus. Take a brake and relax a bit =)

[@shazzavlogs]

Beautiful, theirs nothing better then a healing drum fantastic, mother earths heartbeat ✨💫

[@danicamarie6640]

My grandma is Inuk from Nunavut and Ojibway from Ontario, she’s teaching how to dance like this and I’m so lucky to have a culture like this

[@eytharburhan8869]

They are beautiful

[@carcultured]

Yes! keep on keeping culture alive

[@faunawoods7485]

I love these videos. I do a lot of research on the culture and I love every part of It

[@ronduff4325]

Beautiful !! Everything , the People the clothing and the Land .

[@petergermain]

thank you for sharing this. i really enjoyed it

[@christinearmstrong852]

Beautiful.. keep your traditions going

[@inunnguaqalbertolsen3408]

I from greenland and we love that songs and dancing

[@jadenu2003]

Gran video. Muy interesante. Thks Tony. Great video. So interesting. Gracias Tony Devlin.

[@Ren_bek]

thanks for sharing!

[@haleeshalynn]

You guys are amazing.

[@amycuaresma]

I love in Anchorage, Alaska. This tells a powerful story, I can feel the emotion in it. I wish I knew more About the ceremony

[@worldiscoverercanari]

Fantastico,maravillosos,pueblos originarios,sigan la lucha ,por nosotros.

[@DaneDavisYT]

Not to mention Yah or to Jamaicans Jah is literally God with no title. Notice how many times they praise yah in their songs. Its beautiful

[@cyber_eternal]

Interesting, but Inuvialuit are spiritual, we don't traditionally have a single god as you would imagine it. We believe in nature and spirituality

[@lolabeaulieu4530]

Its not even what their singing about relax lmao

[@LewisBeck]

Nice work Peggy Jay! Glad to see you're still working with the Inuvialuit. I remember you from when you coordinated the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Inuvik in1992.

[@Saguanay]

Its refreshing to see a traditional dance from a people that's not the generic pow wow styles.

[@StarSurvivor1585]

So beautiful

[@ringscircles142]

beautiful

[@liviaraquel5970]

Aewsome! From Brazil

[@krtkoable]

Very talented people

[@_YS27]

I actually watched this for a school project but i'm really happy i did (=

[@StCloud-ns7vt]

very inspiring- thanks ^_^

[@williamgreen-cs7be]

beatuiful thing i am part cheaket indian it bring great spirit to me i think of my peopje and how they live bless you thank you

[@nativehog]

this is cool love ndn music and im dj in northwest area of yakama nation

[@laurenwood4271]

Great stuff 👍

[@rshudson7643]

Love it

[@edghar7995]

Love!

[@user-qu8po7sp6b]

Красота. Мы так похожи. I’m Yupik. Chaplino.

[@perisun3572]

Похоже очень на танцы каряков в север россии. dance looks like dance people how live in north russia

[@ginnygin6624]

Love to go there one day

[@skyneely9327]

My beautiful culture ❤️

[@nalasimba6202]

Simba: Whooa! Awesome

[@indigenoustruthspeaker3129]

Native American culture ❤🦅is the Real and Beautiful American Indigenous culture ❤🦅

[@darymichalchuk7837]

I like it

[@kamakazii80]

Good song and dancing

[@2558ful]

thank yo for sharing this..very interesting and informative about the culture..may I ask what the drums are made from..blessings

[@joeygallaornsr.5748]

Go to AFN and all festivities...go to point hope n barrow. Im from pho.

[@tobyhutchinson8078]

These would do good on Americas got talent

[@jokerman7351]

✊

[@vfw0576]

This brought back some childhood memories what are the drum like thing's they are holding and hitting called? And is it made with whale skin?

[@orthicon9]

They would be called "drums". In Inuvialuktun I _think_ it's called a "kilaut", (hey, it's been 38 years since I lived there) but that word may be more for the larger Central and Eastern Arctic drums, which are struck on the frame with a short thick stick. These have longer, thinner sticks that hit the skin, the frame, or both at the same time. Definitely not whale skin. Maybe scraped caribou skin or something modern. I have seen one made with a piece of raincoat.

[@simonemorgan60]

💕💞

[@ak_icedviking5778]

long live the Eskimoes

[@ChristIsRisen33]

Seattle born Alaskan Tsimshian blood here!

[@najaravn]

I love the womens clothes, is there a history in those clothes?

[@LegacyIcons]

great video where was this filmed?

[@yarrr275]

+Legacy Icons Ulukhaqtuuq, Canada

[@canuckjazzman]

Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada

[@gomezpants]

14 people are from the Eastern part

[@samatdubanbekov1708]

The dance show a hunt to weil

[@JohannemmHansen]

Sumiuna?

[@ingvarz7468]

they look exactly and dance exactly how the Russian Eskimos do.

[@ingvarz7468]

@@uglurker thank you for telling ELLA BASU off.. when i say eskimo i don't mean any disrespect.. but those new liberals get upset at everything.

[@peterhartl6193]

Ich lebe in Bayen Germania in meiner DNA ist 14 % wikingerblut und Hunnenblut 3%❤😂

[@KnudGL]

Ilisarnat qitinneri, piniarlitik, umiami siuttoq aamma ilaavoq, unammisililli angitit

[@ninjaginger6418]

no need to ask again ha ha

[@tomasgombik3363]

HM got me thinking:) why all those cultures like eskimo, no offence meant, mongolian and so have that nice rhtymical songs, in my country almost all of the songs are more about vocals and text. I mean songs considered folk and native to my land

[@lhagvajavmyagmarjav638]

Look like similar Sibirian escimo yakutian dance similar Native Amerikan pow wow similar Australio polinezian Hakka dance mixed

[@daveshen0880]

I wonder if greenlandic inuit dance like that in prehistoric times.

[@fzkxl9931]

What do you mean by prehistoric time? The ancestors of the people who live now in Greenland did not live there in what we call prehistoric time.

[@daveshen0880]

@@fzkxl9931 old times

[@walker1033]

@@daveshen0880 the tradition started with the Mongolians when they moved up throughout Nunavut to Greenland, it sort of died off. The Inuit in the west practice both the drumming and the dancing but as you move east all the way to Greenland, there isn’t the same emphasis on the dancing part and just playing the drum. This only happened because as our people moved further along, many of the Inuit back then moving lost the dancing part. Then it didn’t help with the whole colonization thing for the Inuit in the east much either.

[@wadefreeman7340]

similar indianer

[@arcticigloo1685]

Aariggaa from Alaska

[@Ioloveyou]

Theyre what? Tungusic mongolic turkic uralic?

[@woohooo7634]

We are descended from Siberians, to the point where we can still be considered Asian. (Coming from a Siberian eskimo)

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

@@woohooo7634 Amerindians are always welcome in Asia 😘

[@NEFTIS333]

00:49 Bayonetta?

[@roshan1341]

Hi Sir, can I use a 2 to 3 seconds clip of the dance in one of my videos? Kindly confirm. Iam doing a music video. Thanks

[@julianvaldez7336]

Upside down nemoxanaxomen omenxanaxnemo

[@AIRNATION1]

looks good but video stop and go

[@Aqsaitaaq]

I'm inupiaq and we have similar movements and singing but our drums are bigger and louder

[@rebeccasikes2278]

sometimes I am quite jealous of people who have a connection to the land they live on and who have a distinct culture. Its so beautiful and each culture is so unique. I'm a white person in the U.S with mixed european background and I have no culture I can proudly celebrate and call mine. (also I hate that i live on stolen land and I hate that my family's success is a product of genocide)

[@faywillowstream]

look into lyla june’s work! she’s mixed diné and english and writes about reconnecting

[@kimholcomb6943]

Rebecca sikes I'm ashamed that you'd say that just because you're white makes you sound ashamed that you are white. Europeans also have their own traditions and culture. I am scottish and sweedish and I'm white. Every culture has been a slave at one time or another. The Romans claimed that the celts were barbarians because of their language and these people were white. The English didn't like their bag pipes and were told that they couldn't use swords to defend themselves so they used what was around them. The celtic culture has a very STRONG ORAL TRADITION they didn't write down things because it was against their beliefs. They also had a writing system of their own called Ogham. The celts were also connected to nature and were spiritual people themselves. You can find the good or the bad in anything and people themselves..it's what you choose to believe. It's good to remember what our ancestors did before us the good along with the bad. If you start re writing history because you are ashamed of it then you are doomed to make the same mistakes as our ancestors did. I bet if you looked at your own unique heritage you could find some wonderful and rich things about your own heritage.

[@rebeccasikes2278]

@@kimholcomb6943 hey homie, I’m Irish and czech, but removed from those traditions because of my position in America and the amount of time my relatives have been in America. Also, I’m three years into a History major so like...I know that very basic history you relayed. Emphasis on basic, there is a lack of nuance in your words. Modern American socio-cultural context is what I am discussing, not the history of European oppression or the various ethnic divisions of that peninsula :)

[@bustin9938]

Lol

[@matthewmann8969]

Eskimos have had it rough by mistreatment from Amerindians and Europeans

[@dn2ze]

matthew mann Eskimo means raw meat eaters most find it offensive nowadays they prefer Inuit which means people. Plus Inuits and Natives don’t see each other as same people and race but two different people and race. I wish Americans would just stop comparing Natives with Inuits.

[@woohooo7634]

@@dn2ze Nope. Not all eskimos are Inuk. Many are Yupik :/

[@cyber_eternal]

@@dn2ze Inuit is already plural, no need for an S at the end. And we are separated by Inuit, First Nations and Metis. All native, but not genetically the same. (Although Metis come from First Nations/French origin)

[@kimholcomb6943]

Not all Europeans were bad people. We made mistakes but so did other races. I'm not proud of the bad things that they did and I remember it. But I also embrace the good things that my heritage has given to others. Quit focusing on the bad but remember it and don't repeat it embrace the good along with the bad and you'll find that there are things that are amazing in your own heritage and culture. 😄

[@kimholcomb6943]

@@dn2ze sharing is a good thing but Don chastise someone who dosen't know. Teach and lead with empathy and wisdom. This will go along way rather than than jumping down someone's throat.

[@user-dj7tt1js1x]

Натуральные сибиряки😅

[@Psychoactive010]

They sound sort of Irish when speaking in English

[@DaneDavisYT]

Heyah? That's an ancient Hebrew word for God Almighty. Weyah means he who flows living water another reference to God. Could these people be israelites?

[@hawtdawg3821]

No

[@woohooo7634]

No, Eskimos aren't Black, but it is possible that it is the same God?

[@cyber_eternal]

Lol no, and we are spiritual, we traditionally don't worship a singular God.

[@gayvideos3808]

Please shut the fuck up, I'm Indigenous and I hate seeing crackpot conspiracy theorists trying to link random cultures thousands of miles away from israel to israelites

[@walker1033]

They literally state through the video “INUIT culture and practices” the only god we have is Sedna, the mother of the sea and sea animals

[@impendingdoom7907]

Girls wearing same clothes: ugh you have gotta change your clothes Boys wearing same clothes:

[@orthicon9]

No they do not. The men's parkas don't have those rectangles on the chest, and the fur around the hood is just wolverine. The women's hoods have wolverine plus the "amarok" or wolf fur sunburst fringe around the wolverine.

[@impendingdoom7907]

@@orthicon9 imagine getting offended by a meme and a joke

[@Irisa022]

Wth

[@Jamaal4Jesus]

They need Jesus!

[@woohooo7634]

What did they do that was "satanic" this time? ugh

[@walker1033]

That’s funny cause the Catholics thought the same thing, and they came up with residential schools. We all know how that went lol. You’re not trying to bring back those schools are you?