The Kitikmeot Heritage Society is working with archaeologists to excavate sod houses near Cambridge Bay – and collect elders' testimonies. Inuit lived in those dwellings, even in the harshest of ...

"One of the things about sod houses is … it takes so much work and they're meant to be lived in basically all winter, which is a hugely long period of time in Nunavut," he said, referring to the ...

Laimiki Innuaraq has fond memories of living in a traditional Inuit sod house, or qammaq, from 1943 to 1963. The sod house, with the aid of just a single qulliq (a traditional oil lamp), was ...