I J I

IJI (ᐃᔨ), Inuktitut for EYE, is the literary arts collaboration between Inuit Traditional Knowledge Keeper (and RCGS Explorer-in-Residence) Johnny Issaluk and Writer/Environmental Humanities Scholar Kelly Bushnell.

Through public writing projects, IJI seeks to promote education, understanding, and cooperation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ecological epistemologies (ways of knowing/understanding nature).

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Read full Artist Statement and scroll down for Current Projects.

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Left: Johnny and Kelly beneath a whalebone arch in Ilulissat, Greenland.

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