Land claim negotiations are shaking the foundation of our society. It's because of fear. Look at us today. For the last 150 or 200 years our culture has been sabotaged by you guys, your values. I'm wearing your clothing.
Any culture tries to hold onto to what it's losing.
We were and still are trying to document our own history. Many times our works are about our legends and events such as mass starvations. The only way that we are able to hold onto many of our cultural values is by reducing art to forms related to and centred around that culture. Talking with Gilbert Hay. A Comparative Analysis of Sedna and the Moon Spirit as depicted in Contemporary Inuit Sculpture and Graphics.