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Arctic Journal Lynda Brown’s three-year-old daughter Papatsie Johnson and Kendall Ford throat singing at the Early Years graduation ceremony at the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre in June 2010. Papatsie and Kendall are still throat singing partners 14 years later the next generation carrying on the nearly lost tradition. © Lynda Brown Reviving a cultural heritage Throat singing is distinctively Inuit and a musical genre all its own. In 2014, Quebec recognized throat singing as its first example of intangible cultural heritage something you can only hear.  Throat singing is a traditional game involving two women. The whole point of the game is to make the other person laugh. “Throat singing was a form of entertainment especially during harsh times, or when they couldn’t go out,” says Evie Mark, a throat singer from Ivujivik, Nunavik, who teaches at Nunavik Sivunitsavut, the college program in Montreal for students from Nunavik. Throat singing was often sung during c

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