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- ↑ "Lucy Tulugarjuk". Inuit Art Quarterly. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ↑ Madeline Ivalu at the National Museum of the American Indian.
- ↑ "A mythic tale of symbolism; Before Tomorrow the story of an old woman and a young boy on their own in Arctic". Ottawa Citizen , May 22, 2009.
- ↑ "Inuit drama nets 9 Genie nominations". CBC News, March 3, 2010.
- ↑ "A modern drama in traditional Nunavut hamlet". Toronto Star , June 20, 2014.
