Inuksuks (the actual plural is inuksuit) are stone figures created by the first inhabitants of the Canadian north, the Inuit.
The word "inuksuk" is an Inuktitut word meaning "to act in the capacity of a human" and comes from the word "inuk" which can be translated as "human being".
In the last decade, the inuksuk has captured the imagination of Canadians from coast to coast and human-like stone figures can be found along roadsides everywhere.
The Inuksuk (pronounced In-ook-shook) that Peter Irniq recently built in front of McNutt Hall, the home of the admissions office, carries a message for Dartmouth students.
Dartmouth's Inuksuk was commissioned by the Hood Museum of Art as part of the exhibition Our Land: Contemporary Art from the Arctic, the first major exhibition of contemporary art on loan from the Nunavut Government.
To many, the Inuksuk is a symbol of human spirit—a reminder that we are part of something larger than ourselves.
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