Jaypeetee Arnakak

Jaypeetee Arnakak is a linguist, translator, and educator. He spent many years as a policy analyst specializing in Inuit culture, language, and education issues. He is the editor of Unikkaaqtuat Qikiqtaninngaaqtut, a collection of thirty-three versions of traditional stories, transcribed and edited from oral recordings of ten Inuit Elders from two High Arctic communities, Arctic Bay and Igloolik. He has also adapted several traditional Inuit stories into children’s storybooks.

Books by Jaypeetee Arnakak:

The Woman and Her Bear Cub

Unikkaaqtuat Qikiqtaninngaaqtut

Books translated by Jaypeetee Arnakak:

Elements