Karin and Kathy Kettler, the Canadian throat-singing sisters who together are known as Nukariik, carry on the Inuit throat singing tradition of the elders from their mothers' village in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Quebec, Canada The practice started as a way for women to pass the time while men were out hunting. It's a friendly competition in which two women face each other and layer the same beat a second apart. It's also a way to sooth babies. Most women wore the babies on their backs in large hoods, al

Alaskan drum dancers perform during Inuit Circumpolar Conference in 1992. | Inuit Broadcasting

Producer, Iqaluit, Nunavut Year: 1987 Host: Elisapee Davidee Episode Title: Inuit Circumpolar Conference Meeting in Kotzebue, Alaska in 1987. Inuit from Canada, Alaskan Iñupiat and Russian Chukchis demonstrate Inuit traditional drum dancing, singing and throat singing in Kotzebue, Alaska at the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in 1987. Some of the songs they sing are called : “the arrival of the air plane”, “Our girls” and “we do not want war”. | Inuit Broadcasting

Famous Henry Naudla of IBC drum dancing and singing for IBC. | Inuit Broadcasting