Simeonie Keenainak
Encyclopedia
Simeonie Keenainak is an Inuit
accordionist and retired RCMP
officer from Pangnirtung
, Nunavut
, Canada
. He is also a photographer and hunter. He has performed at the Pangnirtung Music Festival and was featured in regional and national media for his musicianship and cultural community efforts.
Simeonie and Daisy Keenainak have been married since 1967.
Inuit
The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...
accordionist and retired RCMP
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...
officer from Pangnirtung
Pangnirtung, Nunavut
Pangnirtung is an Inuit hamlet, Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, located on Baffin Island. As of the 2006 census the population was 1,325, an increase of 3.8% from the 2001 census...
, Nunavut
Nunavut
Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. He is also a photographer and hunter. He has performed at the Pangnirtung Music Festival and was featured in regional and national media for his musicianship and cultural community efforts.
Simeonie and Daisy Keenainak have been married since 1967.
External links
- CBC Radio One Hotsheet (21 July 2004, item 5. Outfront)
- Canadian Folk Music Bulletin: Inuit Accordion Music-A Better Kept Secret (PDF format, March-June 2000, by Jim HiscottJim HiscottJames Michael Hiscott is a Canadian composer, radio producer, and accordionist. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, his compositions are characterized by their strong rhythmic base, standard harmonic language, and merger of world music with...
, accessed 20 May 2006) - Nunatsiaq News: "Selected music from Pang festival now on CD"
- Legislative Assembly of Nunavut: comments by Hon. Jack Anawak (PDF format, 1 November 2002, p1507)