counter-response, people began posting "sealfies" — pictures of themselves wearing sealskin or eating seal meat. As part of this viral media campaign, Tagaq posted a picture of her young daughter lying beside a dead seal on Twitter. The seal had been killed to feed a group of local elders and is an essential part of an Inuk diet, eaten by necessity and tradition. The image caused backlash by animal rights activists, who directed online abuse and threats towards Tagaq. During her Polaris Music Prize acceptance speech, she encouraged people to wear and eat seal, and shouted, "Fuck PETA", which enraged animal rights activists. Inuit have been arguing since the 1980s that any attack on the seal hunt is an attack on the Indigenous hunt, because it destroys the market for furs. Subsequently, Tagaq tweeted, "I had a scrolling screen of 1200 missing and murdered indigenous women at the Polaris gala but people are losing their minds over seals." In 2016, Tagaq reported that she had been banned from Facebook for posting a photo of a sealskin coat. The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network named Taqaq one of the 16 Indigenous "movers and shakers to watch in 2016." The list praised Taqaq's activism against "to expose hard truths about systemic racism in governments, missing and murdered Indigenous women and proudly supporting the practices and preservation of her culture such as seal hunting." In 2020 she provided narration in the music video for "End of the Road", a protest song about the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women by the rock band Crown Lands. Awards and recognition 2006 Juno Awards, nominee: Aboriginal Recording of the Year, Sinaa 2009 Juno Awards, nominee: Aboriginal Recording of the Year and Instrumental Album of the Year, Auk/Blood 2014 Polaris Music Prize, winner: Animism 2014 Canadian Folk Music Pushing the Boundaries Award 2015 Juno Awards, nominee: Alternative Album of the Year, Animism 2015 Juno Awards, winner: Aboriginal Recording of the Year, Animism 2015 Western Canadian Music Award, winner: Aboriginal Recording of the Year, Spiritual Recording of the Year and World Recording of the Year. December 2016, Member of the Order of Canada recipient. 2017 Juno Awards, winner: Classical Album of the Year - Large Ensemble, Going Home Star 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for prose published in English, "Split Tooth" Discography Collaborations Going Home Star (2015) See also Indigenous Canadian personalities Sounds from the Ground References External links