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More on (traditional) stone carving and lung hazards HazArt

2007 October 9 · Leave a Comment

This article comes via NationTalk, native newswire, employment and tender service
Study probes link between soapstone and cancer – Waterloo Record
Forty-six-year-old Jimmy Cookie feels dizzy and has trouble breathing every time he carves into a slab of soapstone.
Now, University of Manitoba researchers are looking at whether Cookie’s lung problems could be linked with the traditional [...]

Tags: Eskimo · HazArt · Pueblo · health

Inuktitut-based Bible

2006 October 19 · Leave a Comment

The Yup’ik Eskimo language Bible (sponsored by the Alaska Moravian Church) is also getting a major revision. It is written in the Roman or Latin script. See previous post

Yup’ik Bible -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/11/ regional-bookstore-planning/

This version described in this newstory,

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/10/17/moravian-bible.html

is written in the Inuit script, Inuktitut
The Inuktitut syllabary is actually only used in Canada, especially [...]

Tags: Eskimo