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Inuit youth group Ikaarvik links Inuit knowledge with science research
Knowledge recapCleared for publication
Ikaarvik was founded in 2010 by Inuit graduates of Nunavut Arctic College's Environmental Technology Program in Pond Inlet, who wanted to keep doing environmental work after their studies. Its aim is to prepare Inuit youth for careers that join Inuit knowledge and science research. Candice Sudlovenick joined it as a youth more than a decade ago and says it made her feel empowered. Danielle Nowosad co-authored a paper in Arctic Science. She sees wide overlap between Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Western science and calls both rigorous. Both women say collaboration is improving. But university and funding timelines still suit community partnerships poorly, because those partnerships take years to build. "It felt really empowering, and it made me realize I have a voice, and people want to listen." — Candice Sudlovenick, outreach programs manager for SIKU
Why it matters
The article says local knowledge matters more as climate change speeds up across the Arctic. Nowosad says some universities and funders are starting to accept that slower, community-based work often produces stronger research.
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Origins, evidence and credits
Original headline: 'I have a voice': How some Inuit and researchers are bridging science, traditional knowledge
- Origins and holders
- The knowledge is Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, an Inuktitut term the article explains as Inuit traditional knowledge; its holders are Inuit, and Ikaarvik was started by Inuit youth.
- What was checked
- The source does not describe independent checking; it rests on interviews with two people and a reference to a published paper.
- Limits reported
- Both interviewees say research partnerships still face pressure from funding, timelines and output expectations that don't fit relationship-based work, and Nowosad says no science is free of bias.
People and institutions credited
Candice Sudlovenick (outreach programs manager for SIKU; a photo caption places SIKU at the Arctic Eider Society); Danielle Nowosad (postdoctoral fellow, University of Calgary; co-author of the Arctic Science paper); Ikaarvik (the organisation); CBC (original outlet; no reporter byline shown on the Yahoo copy).