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In June 2013, the launch of the NWT Aboriginal Cultural Awareness E Training was made, a training package Alappaa was contracted to create. Myrna spent a year compiling images, audio, video, and interviews to use to enhance the training. Myrna's intention was to ensure that the voices of the Inuvialuit, Metis, and Dene were evident and topics were addressed by aboriginal people of the past and today.

Coin image © 2020 Royal Canadian Mint. All rights reserved / Image de pièce © 2020 Monnaie royale canadienne. Tous droits réservés

In 2019, Myrna Pokiak had the honour to submit a design in competition to represent 150 Years of the Northwest Territories joining confederation. Her design was chosen and in 2020 her coin launched. Every detail on the coin is symbolic of the North, the people, and the environment that has sustained the people through 150 years.

Coin image © 2020 Royal Canadian Mint. All rights reserved /Image de pièce © 2020 Monnaie royale canadienne. Tous droits réservés

Art Inspiration - by Myrna Pokiak (Agnaviak)

Wrote a teacher guide and created an E learning course based on the Inuvialuit document “Taimani: At That Time”

In 2019, with an amazing team from the Canadian Museum of Nature, and friends and family from Tuktoyaktuk, Myrna Pokiak had the honour to curate an exhibit on the Beluga Whale Harvest from the perspective of her three young Inuvialuk daughters. The exhibit was a recreation of one Myrna worked on in 2003 with the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. Myrna captured all the videos and photographs, with the assistance of her daughters and her mom, Maureen Pokiak. The exhibit launched in Ottawa in 2019, extended to 2022.

Researching Access Programs in various colleges and universities throughout Canada to compare the Access Programs offered by Aurora College in the NWT today.

Tusaayaksat Summer 2020 Cover Page

Photographer for Tusayaaksat for the Nursing Issue for Summer 2020, capturing two Inuvialuk nurses working during the pandemic in Yellowknife, NT, at the Stanton Territorial Hospital.

In collaboration with Ookpik Tours and Adventures, we wrote and developed a Cultural Awareness Training package.

Tusaayaksat Winter 2019 2020 Issue Cover Page by Maureen Pokiak & Writer

Writer for Tusaayaksat on the New Exhibit at the National Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Ontario. As a curator with a team of exhibit producers, this was one of the highlights of Myrna Pokiak's careers.

Author of an article called: “The North is Like an Igloo”, written to express my views on sovereignty, from the perspective of an Inuvialuk.

Experience is the Foundation

Alappaa has over two decades of experience in research, writing, and consulting. At the root, Alappaa was trained in education, sharing knowledge, and researching to gain incite and collaborate ideas, knowledge, and experiences.

Working with Aboriginal Governments, Territorial and Federal Agencies, Museums and Heritage Centres, and Private Industries, Alappaa brings forward perspectives from a 100% Northern and Aboriginal business, with new ideas, original content, and cultural highlights.

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