Tumasi Quissa (born in 1948 at a camp near

Akulivik Akulivik ( iu, ᐊᑯᓕᕕᒃ) ( 2021 population 642) is an Inuit village in Nunavik, in northern Quebec, Canada. It is located on a peninsula that juts southwesterly into Hudson Bay across from Smith Island, Nunavut (Qikirtajuaq). Akulivik l ...

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

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) is an

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

singer-songwriter and a carver. Tumasi and his brother performed a few songs live on Canadian national television as part of 1981's

Canada Day Canada Day (french: Fête du Canada), formerly known as Dominion Day (french: Fête du Dominion), is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1, 18 ...

celebrations, and they were such a hit that CBC Northern Service Broadcast Recordings decided to issue a whole LP of their material entitled Better Times (De Meilleurs Jours).

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1948 births Living people Canadian country singer-songwriters Canadian folk singers Inuit from Quebec Canadian male singer-songwriters Inuit musicians 20th-century Canadian male singers People from Nunavik {{Canada-singer-stub