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    Uvavnuk was an Inuk woman born in the 19th century, now considered an oral poet. The story of how she became an angakkuq (spiritual healer), and the song...
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    specimens, taking interviews (including the shaman Aua, who told him of Uvavnuk), and excavating sites. Rasmussen left the team and traveled for 16 months...
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    Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz, Rabia al Basri, Yehuda Halevi, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Uvavnuk, and Kabir.[citation needed] During 2005 Wilcox traveled the country with...
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    Alaska Native religion has many forms and variants. Both women, such as Uvavnuk, and men could become an angakkuq, although it was rarer for women to do...
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  • Luther Adams recording; the words originally came from an Inuit woman named Uvavnuk, an angakkuq (shaman) and oral poet. The Revenant had a limited release...
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    introduction of Christianity. Aua told the story of his cousin's mother Uvavnuk, whose song "The Great Earth" is still popular. Aua was married to Orulo...
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    Two-Rivers, Rainy River Ojibwa, 1945–2008 Froyla Tzalam, Mopan Maya, Belize Uvavnuk, Iglulik Inuk, Canada Richard Van Camp, Tli Cho, Canada, b. 1971 Gerald...
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  • language in Newfoundland List of Canadian poets League of Canadian Poets Uvavnuk An unpublished example of the Viator is included below to illustrate how...
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  • Terry Uyarak releases songs in Inuktitut". CBC North, November 15, 2020. Uvavnuk Sheila Watt-Cloutier at the Indspire Awards Charlie Watt – Parliament of...
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  • 1951, Finland), poet & col. Bea Uusma (b. 1966, Sweden), ch. & non-f. wr. Uvavnuk (fl. early 20th century, Canada/Newfoundland), Inuit poet Pauline Uwakweh...
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