Three young Inuit from Nunavut’s Baffin region have won awards for their poems and songs from the Qikiqtani Inuit Association as part of its annual competition held to celebrate Inuktitut-language month.

“It’s fantastic to see the creativity and ingenuity of Inuit in our Qikiqtani communities,” said QIA president P.J. Akeeagok in a recent news release. “These songs and poems are affirmations of the connection young Inuit have to our language, culture and history.”

The first prize of $400 went to Miali Coley-Sudlovenick from Iqaluit, a teacher at Joamie School, who shared her poem on a podcast that she created to promote Inuktitut.

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