Madeleine Allakariallak

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Madeleine Allakariallak ( ᒫᑕᓖᓐ ᐊᓪᓚᑲᕆᐊᓪᓚᒃ Maataliin Allakariallak , * 1975 in Resolute Bay ) is an Inuit- Canadian television journalist.

Madeleine Allakariallak first became known in the mid-1990s when she and her cousin Phoebe Atagotaaluk formed the throat singing duo ᑐᔾᔮᑦ Tudjaat . His song ᑲᔪᓯᑕ Kajusita , English My ship comes in, addresses the resettlement of Inuit families to the High Arctic , which was initiated by the Canadian government in 1953 , to which Allakariallak's grandmother Minnie Eckalook Allakariallak belonged.

In 1997 Madeleine Allakariallak joined CBC North as a reporter , and from 1999 to 2005 she hosted the morning program ᖁᓪᓕᖅ Qulliq on CBC Radio One from Iqaluit . From 2005 to 2007 she hosted television programs on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) in Winnipeg . She then worked for the Inuit organization Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. and as an assistant to the politician Eva Aariak . Since 2014 she has been the successor to Rassi Nashalik as the presenter of the television news program ᐃᒐᓛᖅ Igalaaq at CBC North.

Her husband Romeyn Stevenson is a local politician in Iqaluit.

Individual evidence

  1. Age 28 in 2004, The Washington Post : Poisons from afar threaten Arctic mothers, traditions ; Age 22 when she became a reporter in 1997, CBC : 'By Inuit, for Inuit, about Inuit': CBC Iqaluit says goodbye to Astro Hill station
  2. Eva Sowdluapik: Tudjaat interview . In: Inuktitut . No. 80 , 1996, pp. 53-59 ( itk.ca [PDF]).
  3. Tudjaat CD (1995)
  4. Iqqaumavara: Madeleine Allakariallak - her story
  5. Nunatsiaq News: CBC picks Madeleine Allakariallak to host Inuit-language TV newscast
  6. ^ Iqaluit City Council