Odette Leroux was born in Montreal, Quebec, and obtained a L. ès L. in Art History from L'Institut d'art et d'archéologie, Université de Paris in 1974. She is the former Curator of Contemporary Inuit Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization where she was responsible for may major exhibitions such as The Cape Dorset Print: Commenorating Twenty-five Years of Printmaking at Cape Dorset, an exhibition at Rideau Hall by the National Museum of Man (Ottawa, 1983); In the Shadow of the Sun, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, 1988–10); Arctic Mirror, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, 1990); Inuit Art, Tradition and Regeneration, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, 1992–93); and Isumavut: THe Artistic Expression of Nine Cape Dorset Women, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, 1994–95), upon which this book is based.

Minnie Aodla Freeman was born on the Cape Hope Islands in James Bay in 1937 and grew up immersed in traditional Inuit culture. She is a translator, writer, editor , film producer, and has worked as Assistant Editor of Inuit Today Magazine, as Native Cultural Advisor and Narrator for the Canadian Broadcasting Co rpora ti on, and as Executive Secretary of the Land Claims Secretariat of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada. She also founded and served as Manager /Producer of the Inuit Broadcast ing Corp orati on and has held lectureships ,at the University of Alberta, the University of Western Ontario, Memorial University and Arctic College.

Minnie Aodla Freeman was born on the Cape Hope Islands in James Bay in 1937 and grew up immersed in traditional Inuit culture. She is a translator, writer, editor , film producer, and has worked as Assistant Editor of Inuit Today Magazine, as Native Cultural Advisor and Narrator for the Canadian Broadcasting Co rpora ti on, and as Executive Secretary of the Land Claims Secretariat of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada. She also founded and served as Manager /Producer of the Inuit Broadcast ing Corp orati on and has held lectureships ,at the University of Alberta, the University of Western Ontario, Memorial University and Arctic College.