-muit at Mitchell Art Gallery

Visit the Mitchell Art Gallery at MacEwan University to see the curation by Ooleepeeka Eegeesiak.

The suffix “-miut” is found in Inuit languages across dialects. It is a word modifier meaning “people of” when attached to a place name. This identifier subverts constructed lines between people and land, as these toponyms are often related to ecological characteristics. Belonging to place is deeply embedded in what it means to be Inuk. We are the land, our kinship geographies, our generational knowledges.

-miut considers what it means to be an Inuk living in Treaty 6 and 7 with work by Atsinak Bishop, Alberta Rose W./Ingniq, Kablusiak, Sarah Whalen Lunn, and Yvonne Moorhouse.