Ogina strove to secure and promote her culture and language
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ULUKHAKTOK, NT, June 13, 2025/ CNW/ – At an event in Ulukhaktok today, Canada Post revealed an approaching stamp honouring Native leader, Julia Haogak Ogina.
The accomplished Inuit drum dance instructor has actually dedicated her life to keeping the culture and language of her forefathers. Ogina is understood for her efforts to obtain and maintain drum dance tunes and the development of a local language structure and programs promoting oral knowing and understanding transfer.
This stamp is among 3 Native Leaders stamps that will be released on June 20— the day before National Indigenous Peoples Day. The set is the 4th in Canada Post’s multi-year Native Leaders series.
Ogina’s life and tradition
Born in 1962 in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., Ogina matured discovering the custom-mades and customs of her forefathers through dancing, singing and storytelling. As more individuals in her neighborhood started moving into central neighborhoods, kids were sent out to domestic schools and individuals needed to discover English to discover work, Ogina started seeing spaces in her own understanding. She worked as a translator and research study assistant on The Northern Copper Inuit: A History (1996 ). The task, performed through assessments with neighborhood Elders, covered the early history of the Ulukhaktok area to early and late contact durations and into modern-day life.
Around 2006, she ended up being the programs planner of Elders, Language & & Culture for the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, whose required is “to handle the lands and resources that support conventional and cultural worths.” In her position, she stresses oral knowing and the transfer of understanding by means of neighborhood. In 2017, she assisted release Huqqullaarutit Unipkaangit ( Stories Informed through Drum Dance Tunes). The task included a decade-long assessment with Elders to obtain and maintain drum dance tunes– which she views as a channel for ancestral understanding and “a window into all the strengths of our individuals.”
Ogina has actually been honoured within her neighborhood and on a nationwide level for her work. She got an Exceptional Accomplishment in Language Revitalization award from the Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit in 2017 and she was granted the Meritorious Service Medal in 2020.
About the stamp
The stamp includes a picture of Ogina in her drum dancing outfit at the celebration, QAGGIQ 2021 in Iqaluit, Nunavut It is created by Andrew Perro, including photography by Matisse Harvey for Archives Radio-Canada, and printed by Lowe-Martin. The concern consists of a brochure of 6 Irreversible ™ stamps, an Authorities First Day Cover and a keepsake sheet.
The cancellation website is Ulukhaktok, N.W.T. (Ogina’s birth place), and the cancellation mark bears a picture of a standard drum.
About the Native Leaders mark series
The Native Leaders series was introduced in 2022 and highlights the contributions of Inuit, Métis and First Nations leaders who committed their lives to protecting their culture and enhancing the lifestyle of Native Peoples in Canada
This year, Canada Post will release 3 stamps in honour of Julia Haogak Ogina, Sophie McDougall and Bruce Starlight. 2 other stamp occasions will be held this month:
- On Tuesday, June 17, the stamp honoring Sophie McDougall will be commemorated in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
- On Thursday, June 19, the stamp acknowledging Bruce Starlight will be commemorated in Tsúut’ ínà Country, Alberta
The brand-new stamps and antiques will be offered at canadapost.ca and choose postal outlets throughout Canada beginning June 20
For links to pictures of the stamps and other items:
TM Hallmark of Canada Post Corporation.
SOURCE Canada Post