Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada

Published purpose

Claudio Aporta, Ph.D., has spent over 20 years of his academic career documenting Inuit traditional knowledge across Inuit Nunangat. Aporta's most significant work is focused on the geographic representation of Inuit environmental knowledge. Through hundreds of interviews, mapping sessions, and trips onto the land/sea/ice, Aporta has recorded Inuit travel routes - trails - across the Arctic. Inuit trails leave little to no permanent marks, yet the same trails have been used for hundreds of years. The Claudio Aporta fonds consists of approximately 1 metre of textual records, 10-15 maps, 10 photographs, and approximately 300 GB of digital files. The digital files consist of textual documents, digital photographs, datasets, and digital maps.