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Dear Guest ᑐᕌᖅᑐᑦ ᐃᑭᒪᔪᓄᑦ,

Chris Avery ᑯᕆᔅ ᐄᕗᕆ

Johnny Adams ᔮᓂ ᐋᑕᒥ Executive Chairman of the Board, Canadian North ᐃᓱᒪᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐃᒃᓯᕙᐅᑕᕆᔭᐅᔪᖅ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᓂ, ᑲᓃᑎᐊᓐ ᓄᐊᑦ

Welcome aboard!

ᑐᖖᒐᓱᒋᑦᓯ ᐃᑭᒪᑎᓪᓗᓯ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᑦᑎᓐᓂ!

The longer days and warmer weather make summer a natural time for celebration. We have recently kicked off our own 75th Anniversary celebrations and will be recognizing this on our social media channels throughout the coming months and into 2022. We are one of Canada’s oldest continuously operating airlines and we have a rich and interesting

ᐊᑯᓂᐅᓂᖅᓴᒥᒃ ᐅᓪᓗᕗᑦ ᖃᐅᒪᕙᓕᕐᒥᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓯᓚ ᐆᓇᕐᓂᖅᓴᐅᕙᓪᓕᐊᓕᕐᒥᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᐊᐅᔭᖅᓯᒪᓕᖅᐸᑦ ᓇᓂᑐᐃᓐᓇᖅ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑎᖃᖅᐸᓐᓂᐊᓕᕆᕗᒍᑦ. ᒫᓐᓇᓵᖑᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ 75-ᓄᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᓄᑦ ᓇᓪᓕᐅᓂᓯᐅᓚᐅᕋᑦᑕ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᓕᑕᕆᔭᐅᓯᒪᓕᖅᑎᓐᓂᐊᖅᓱᑎᒍ ᐃᓅᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᑐᓴᖅᑎᑦᓯᔾᔪᑎᒋᕙᒃᑕᖏᑎᒍᑦ ᑕᖅᑭᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᓂ ᓯᕗᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ 2022 ᐅᑭᐅᖓᓄᑦ ᑎᑭᓪᓗᒍ. ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᖃᑕᐅᒐᑦᑕ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᐊᑕᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᒥᒃ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᖁᑎᒋᔭᒥᓐᓂᒃ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᓯᓂᖃᖅᓯᒪᓕᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᐊᑯᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᐅᓪᓚᕆᒃᑑᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᑐᓴᕈᒥᓇᖅᑐᓂᒃᓗ ᐊᑐᖅᓯᒪᔪᓂᑦ ᐃᓕᑦᓯᓐᓄᑦ ᑐᓴᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᓕᖅᑎᑦᓱᒪᓂᐊᖅᑕᑦᑎᓐᓂᒃ.

history that we look forward to sharing with you.

We are also celebrating a major milestone in our merger – the achieve‐ ment of a single Air Operator Certificate. This means we are now able to operate all of our flights under our new ARCTIC call sign. Aside from being a significant merger milestone, I think this represents that we are approaching the end of our integration and will be ready to serve you as a single unified airline, with a common purpose and aspirations.

Along with these two milestones, I am pleased to announce that Cana‐ dian North has been named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for 2021. This leading business award recognizes excellence in private Canadian‐owned companies. I am very proud of how our team mem‐ bers have stepped up to deliver throughout our merger and the pan‐ demic and that we are being recognized for our work. We understand how important air travel and shipping is to you and that is why we work hard to operate a safe, reliable and friendly airline that you can always depend on.

We are also excited to lend our support to festivals and events that are coming back online as reopening proceeds across the North. In June, we served as title sponsor of the Canadian North Midnight Classic golf tournament in Yellowknife, a long‐time community event. We’ll also be supporting Nunavut Day events and serving as title sponsor of Folk on the Rocks in Yellowknife, the Alianait Arts Festival in Iqaluit and the Aqpik Jam in Kuujjuaq. We are ready to lend our support to other long‐ awaited events across Nunavik, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories as they resume and we look forward to celebrating them with you.

We hope you enjoy these summer months and that we’ll see you on board again soon.

Nakurmiik, quyanainni, qujannamiik, matna, quana, mahsi cho, merci and thank you,

Chris Avery President and CEO Canadian North

ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑎᖃᕐᒥᔪᑦ ᐊᖏᔫᑎᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᑎᑭᓯᒪᓕᕈᑎᒋᔭᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ ᑲᑎᖃᑎᖃᖅᓯᒪᓕᓚᐅᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ — ᐊᑕᐃᓯᖖᒍᖅᓯᒪᓕᖅᑎᑦᓯᓪᓗᑕ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᓄᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᓯᔨᐅᓕᖅᑎᑦᓯᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᓕᑕᖅᓯᓯᒪᓕᕈᑎᓂᒃ ᐱᓯᒪᓕᓚᐅᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ. ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᑐᑭᖃᕐᒪᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᓯᓂᖃᕈᓐᓇᓕᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ ᑕᒪᐃᓐᓂᒃ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᑦᑎᓐᓂᒃ ᖃᖓᑕᔪᓐᓇᓕᖅᑎᑕᐅᓂᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ ᒪᓕᒃᓱᒋᑦ ᓄᑖᖑᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒧᑦ (ARCTIC) ᓇᓗᓇᐃᒃᑯᑕᖁᑎᒋᔭᐅᔪᓂᒃ. ᐊᓯᐊᓂᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᑲᑎᖃᑎᖃᖅᓯᒪᓕᓚᐅᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ ᑎᑭᓯᒪᓕᕐᕕᑦᑎᓐᓂᑦ, ᐃᓱᒪᕗᖓ ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᐱᔾᔪᑎᖃᕋᓱᒋᓪᓗᒍ ᑎᑭᑉᐸᓪᓕᐊᓕᕋᑦᑕ ᐃᓕᔭᐅᖃᑕᐅᑎᑦᓯᓯᒪᓕᕆᐊᕐᓂᑦᑕ ᐃᓱᐊᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐸᕐᓇᒃᓯᒪᓂᐊᓕᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂᒃ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᓯᓂᕆᔭᕗᑦ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᐅᓕᖅᑎᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᑲᑎᓯᒪᔪᑎᒍᑦ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᖃᓕᕐᓗᑕ, ᑖᒃᑯᓂᖓᑦᓴᐃᓐᓇᖅ ᐱᔾᔪᑎᖃᕐᓗᑕ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᓯᒪᓕᕆᐊᖅᑕᐅᔪᒪᔪᓄᑦ. ᐃᓚᐅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᑖᓐᑯᓄᖓ ᑎᑭᓯᒪᓕᕐᕕᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᖁᐸᓱᒃᐳᖓ ᑐᓴᖅᑎᑦᓯᒋᐊᓐᓂᒃ ᑲᓃᑎᐊᓐ ᓄᐊᔅᑯᑦ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᖅᑎᖏᑦ ᑕᐃᔭᐅᓯᒪᓕᓚᐅᕐᓂᖏᑕ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᖃᑕᐅᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᐱᐅᓂᖅᐹᑎᒍᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑕᐅᓐᓂᖃᖅᑑᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᑲᒻᐸᓂᒋᔭᐅᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖓᓂ 2021. ᑖᒃᑯᐊ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐸᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᕝᕕᖃᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᔾᔪᑎᑖᕈᑎᑦ ᐃᓕᑕᖅᓯᓯᒪᔾᔪᑎᐅᕗᑦ ᖁᑦᑎᖕᓂᖅᐹᖑᓂᖓᓐᓂ ᐃᓛᒃᑰᖓᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᑲᓇᑕᒥᐅᓂᑦ ᓇᖕᒥᓂᕆᔭᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᑲᒻᐸᓂᐅᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ. ᓴᕆᒪᒋᓪᓚᕆᒃᐸᕋ ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑎᒌᒃᑎᓄᑦ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᔪᐃᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᓕᕈᓐᓇᓚᐅᕐᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᓴᖅᑮᓯᒪᓕᕆᐊᖅᓱᑎᒃ ᑲᑎᖃᑎᖃᖅᓯᒪᓕᕆᐊᖅᓱᑕ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᖃᖅᑎᓪᓗᑕ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓄᕙᒡᔪᐊᕐᓇᓂᒃ ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᓕᒫᒥᐅᓂ ᐊᑐᓕᖅᓯᒪᑎᓪᓗᑕ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᓕᑕᕆᔭᐅᓯᒪᓕᖅᑎᑦᓱᓂᑎᒍ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᕆᓯᒪᔭᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ. ᑐᑭᓯᐅᒪᔪᒍᑦ ᖃᓄᖅ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᑎᑕᐅᒻᒪᖔᑕ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᒃᑯᑦ ᐃᖏᕐᕋᔪᓐᓇᕆᐊᖃᕐᓃᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᓯᑎᑦᓯᕙᓐᓂᐅᔪᑦ ᐃᓕᑦᓯᓐᓂᑦ ᑕᐃᒪᓗ ᑕᒪᒃᑯᐊ ᐱᔾᔪᑎᒋᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐊᒃᓱᕈᖅᐸᒃᑐᒍᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᓯᓂᖃᕋᓱᐊᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᐱᑕᖃᖅᑎᑦᓯᓯᒪᓕᕆᐊᒥᒃ ᖃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖖᒋᑦᑐᒥᒃ, ᖁᓚᕐᓇᖖᒋᑦᑐᓂᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑐᖖᒐᓇᖅᑐᑎᒃ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᖃᖅᑎᑦᓯᔨᐅᕙᒋᐊᒧᑦ ᓴᖅᑮᓯᒪᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᐊᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂᒃ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᑦᓯᐊᕋᓱᒃᓱᑕ ᐃᓕᑦᓯᓐᓂᑦ. ᖁᕕᐊᒋᓪᓚᕆᖕᒥᔭᕗᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᐅᓂᐊᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂᒃ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑎᖃᖅᑎᑦᓯᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᖅᑎᑦᓯᓂᐅᕙᒃᑐᑦ ᐅᖅᑎᑕᐅᕙᓪᓕᐊᓕᕐᓂᖏᑕ ᖃᕆᑕᐅᔭᑎᒍᑦ ᒪᓕᒃᐸᓪᓕᐊᑎᑕᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᒪᑐᐃᖅᓯᒃᑲᓐᓂᕆᐊᓕᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥᐅᓕᒫᓂ. ᔫᓂᒥ, ᐊᖏᓂᖅᐸᐅᔪᒥᒃ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᑎᒍᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᒋᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᒍᑦ ᑲᓃᑎᐊᓐ ᓄᐊᔅᑯᑦ ᐅᓐᓄᐊᒥ ᓄᓇᐅᑉ ᖄᖓᒍᑦ ᐊᖅᓴᕐᓂᖃᖅᑎᑦᓯᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᔭᓗᓇᐃᒥ, ᐊᑯᓂᐊᓗᒃ ᓄᓇᖅᑲᑎᒌᒃᑐᓂᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᖅᑎᑦᓯᓂᐅᕙᓕᖅᑐᒧᑦ. ᑮᓇᐅᔭᑎᒍᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᒋᔭᐅᓂᐊᕐᒥᔪᒍᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᖓᓂ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᖅᑎᑦᓯᓂᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐊᖏᓂᖅᐸᐅᔪᒥᒃ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᑎᒍᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᒋᔭᐅᒻᒥᓗᑕ ᑎᑕᒃᑏᑦ ᑎᑕᖃᑎᒌᓐᓂᖓᓐᓄᑦ (Folk on the Rocks) ᔭᓗᓇᐃᒥ, ᐊᓕᐊᓇᐃᑦ ᓴᓇᐅᒐᓕᐅᖅᑏᑦ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᖃᑎᒌᖕᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐃᖃᓗᓐᓄ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐊᖅᐱᒃ ᔮᒻ ᑎᑕᒃᑏᑦ ᑎᑕᖃᑎᒌᓐᓂᖓᓐᓄᑦ ᑰᔾᔪᐊᖅᒥ. ᐸᕐᓇᒃᓯᒪᕗᒍᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᐅᓕᕆᐊᒃᓴᑦᑎᓐᓂᒃ ᐊᓯᖏᓄᑦ ᐊᑯᓂᐊᓗᒃ ᐅᑕᖅᑭᐅᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᓕᖅᓱᑎᒃ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᖅᑎᑦᓯᓂᐅᔪᒫᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᕕᖕᒥ, ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᕐᒥ ᐃᖏᕐᕋᓕᖅᑎᑦᓯᒋᐊᒃᑲᓐᓂᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓂᕆᐅᓐᓂᖃᑦᓯᐊᖅᓱᑕ ᐃᓕᑦᓯᓐᓂᒃ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᖃᑎᖃᕈᓐᓇᕐᓂᐊᕋᑦᑕ. ᐊᐅᔭᐅᓂᖓᓂ ᑕᖅᑭᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᓂ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᑦᓯᐊᖁᓇᖅᐳᓯ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᕿᓚᒻᒥᐅᔪᖅ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᐃᑭᒪᓕᕐᒥᒍᑦᓯ ᑕᑰᑎᔪᒫᕆᕗᒍᑦ. ᓇᑯᕐᒦᒃ, ᖁᔭᓇᐃᓐᓂ, ᖁᔭᓐᓇᒦᒃ, ᒪᑦᓇ, ᖁᐊᓇ, ᒫᓯ ᓲᐅ, ᒥᕐᓰ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖁᔭᓐᓇᒦᒃ

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ᕉᑕ ᐋᓐᑐᕉᔅ | Rhoda Andrews ᐃᓅᓕᖅᑐᕕᓂᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐃᓅᕕᒃ, ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᕐᒥ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᖁᖅᓴᓂᑰᓪᓗᓂ ᔭᓗᓇᐃᒥ, ᕉᑕ ᐋᓐᑐᕉᔅ ᐊᑐᕐᓂᖃᖅᑎᑕᐅᒻᒪᕆᒃᑑᓪᓗᓂ ᑲᓃᑎᐊᓐ ᓄᐊᔅᑯᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᖅᑎᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᓯᒪᓕᕐᐳᖅ ᑕᐃᒪᖖᒐᓂᑦ 2002-ᒥᑦ. ᐊᐱᕆᔭᐅᒐᒥ ᓱᓇᑦ ᐱᔾᔪᑎᒋᓪᓗᓂᒋᑦ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᖅᑎᓕᕆᔨᑦ ᓴᓇᕝᕕᖓᓂ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖃᓕᕈᒪᓚᐅᕐᓂᖓᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᓗᐊᖅᑐᒥᒃ ᑲᓃᑎᐊᓐ ᓄᐊᔅᑯᑦ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᖅᑎᖏᓐᓄᑦ, ᕉᑕ ᐅᖃᓚᐅᕐᐳᖅ, "ᑖᓐᓇ ᐃᒡᓚᕈᑎᒋᕙᕋ ᐊᐱᖅᑯᑎᐅᔪᖅ — ᐊᖏᖅᓯᒪᓕᓚᐅᕋᒃᑯ 6-ᓄᑦ ᑕᖅᑭᓄᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖅᑎᐅᒋᐊᒃᓴᓐᓂᒃ ᑲᓃᑎᐊᓐ ᓄᐊᔅᑯᓐᓄᑦ ᔭᓗᓇᐃᒥ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᒧᑦ ᐃᑭᔪᓐᓇᐅᑎᓂᒃ ᓂᐅᕕᕐᕕᐅᕙᒃᑐᒥ, ᐃᓱᒪᖃᖅᐸᒌᕈᑎᒋᓪᓗᒍ ᐃᓱᓕᑉᐸᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖅᑎᒋᔭᐅᓂᕋ ᓯᓚᑦᑐᖅᓴᕐᕕᒻᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕈᑎᓐᓄᑦ ᐃᑎᖅᓯᒪᓕᕐᓂᐊᕐᓂᓐᓂᒃ. ᑕᐃᒪᓗᓕ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᖅᑎᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᑦ ᓴᓇᕝᕕᐊᓂ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖅᑎᐅᓂᕋ ᖁᕕᐊᒋᓕᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᑐᐃᓐᓇᓕᓚᐅᕋᒃᑯ, ᐅᑎᕐᕕᒌᓐᓇᐅᔭᖃᑦᑕᖅᓯᒪᓕᕋᒃᑯ!”

Born in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, and grow‐ ing up in Yellowknife, Rhoda Andrews has been a valued Canadian North team member since 2002. When asked what brought her to the airline industry and specifically Canadian North, Rhoda says, “I have to giggle at this question — I accepted a six‐month term position with Canadian North in Yellowknife at the ticket counter, with the forethought that I would leave to complete my undergraduate degree much sooner than I did. Then the aviation industry grew on me, and I kept coming back for more!”

2009-ᒥ, ᕉᑕᐅᑉ ᑐᒃᓯᕋᐅᑎᒋᓯᒪᔭᖏᑦ ᓈᒻᒪᒋᔭᐅᓯᒪᓕᓚᐅᕐᒪᑕ ᒥᒧᐊᕆᐅᓪ ᓯᓚᑦᑐᖅᓴᖅᕕᖓᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕆᐊᕈᒪᔾᔪᑎᖏᑦ ᓴᐃᓐᑦ ᔮᓐᔅ, ᓂᐅᕙᐅᓐᓛᓐᒥ. ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕈᑎᒥᓂᒃ ᐱᔭᕇᖅᓯᒪᓕᕋᒥ, ᐅᑎᓕᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᑲᓃᑎᐊᓐ ᓄᐊᔅᑯᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᐅᔭᖓᓂ 2011 ᐃᓱᒪᑕᕆᔭᐅᓪᓗᓂ, ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᐃᔪᓕᕆᓂᖅ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᓕᕆᔾᔪᓯᓕᕆᓂᕐᓄᑦ.

In 2009, Rhoda was accepted to study at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland. After finishing her degree, she returned to Canadian North in the summer of 2011 as Supervisor, Training and Standards.

ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᖃᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᕝᕕᓕᖕᓄᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᓯᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᐃᔨᓄᑦ, ᕉᑕ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᒥᓂᒃ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᔭᐃᓚᐅᕐᒪᑦ "ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᐅᓂᕐᒥᓂᒃ ᐃᑭᒪᕙᒃᑐᓂᒃ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᐃᔨᓄᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᐅᓂᐊᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᖅᑎᒻᒪᕆᐅᔪᓄᑦ, ᓲᕐᓗ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᒋᔭᐅᓂᒧᑦ." ᐱᓕᕆᐊᕆᕙᒃᑕᒥᓂ, ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᑐᑭᖃᕐᒪᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᖓᓂᐊᕐᓂᖓᓂᒃ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᔨᐅᕙᓐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᑦᑐᓂᒃ ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᐃᓂᕐᓂᒃ ᐱᑕᖃᓕᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᖓᓄᑦ, ᓇᓕᖏᑦ ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᐃᔨᐅᔪᒃᓴᑦ ᐊᐃᓐᓇᐅᓂᐊᕐᒪᖔᑕ ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᐃᔨᐅᓂᐊᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑕᐅᓯᒪᓕᖁᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᕐᕕᖕᒥ ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᐃᓂᕐᒥ ᓴᓇᕐᕈᑎᒃᓴᕆᔭᐅᔪᓂ.

As a member of the Commercial Operations Training team, Rhoda describes her position as “helping customer‐facing trainers to help our frontline workers, a kind of support‐the‐supporter.” In practice, this means forecasting what training will be needed, which trainer is available to conduct it and ensuring it is reflected in our in‐house training software.

ᑲᓃᑎᐊᓐ ᓄᐊᔅᑯᑦ ᐅᔾᔨᕈᓱᓕᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᒻᒪᑕ ᐅᐊᔭᕋᔪᒋᐊᖃᓕᕐᓂᖏᑕ ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᐃᔨᒋᕙᒃᑕᑦᑕ, ᕉᑕ ᑕᒪᒃᑯᓂᖓ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒃᓴᐅᔪᓂᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᔭᖅᑐᕐᓯᒪᓂᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᑲᒪᔨᒋᔭᐅᕗᖅ. ᑕᒪᒃᑯᐊᓗ ᐃᓚᖃᖅᓱᑎᒃ ᖃᖓ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᒃᑯᑦ ᐃᖏᕐᕋᔭᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᐊᕐᓂᕐᓄᑦ, ᓯᓂᒃᑕᕐᕕᖕᒦᔾᔪᑎᒃᓴᖏᓐᓄᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᑕᖃᖅᑎᑦᓯᔨᐅᕙᓐᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᓱᓇᓂᒃ ᑐᕌᕐᕕᖃᖅᑎᑕᐅᓂᐊᕐᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᑐᓂ ᐃᖏᕐᕋᓯᒪᓂᐊᕐᓂᖏᓐᓂ. ᕉᑕ ᖃᐅᔨᖃᑦᑕᖅᓯᒪᓕᕐᐳᖅ ᐊᒥᓲᖏᓐᓇᐅᔭᖅᐸᖕᓂᖏᑕ ᐱᔭᒃᓴᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᓇᐅᑦᓯᖅᑐᒐᐅᕙᒃᓗᑎᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐊᓄᐊᖅᓱᐃᓐᓇᐅᔭᕈᑎᒋᕙᒃᓱᓂᒋᑦ. ᐅᐸᒃᑕᐅᒐᔪᒻᒪᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑕᐅᔭᕆᐊᓕᓐᓂᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒋᐊᕐᕕᐅᕙᒃᓱᓂ ᐊᒥᓱᓂᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᖃᑎᒌᒃᑎᐅᔪᓂᑦ.

Canadian North is starting to see more travel required by our trainers; Rhoda takes care of details for station visits. This includes scheduling flights, booking accommodations, and providing an overview of what the goals are for each trip. Rhoda finds there are always many projects to monitor and keep her busy. She is a go‐to person for many team members.

“ᐅᖃᕈᒪᕗᖓ ᐱᓕᕆᕝᕕᓕᕆᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᓯᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᐱᓕᒻᒪᒃᓴᐃᓂᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᖅᑎᐅᔪᐃᑦ ᐊᖏᓂᖅᐸᐅᔪᒥᒃ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᕆᔭᓐᓂᒃ ᖁᕕᐊᒋᔭᖃᕈᑎᒋᒐᒃᑭᑦ — ᑕᒪᑦᑕᐅᓪᓗᑕ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᒃᓴᕆᔭᑦᑎᓐᓂᒃ ᑐᑭᓯᐅᒪᑦᓯᐊᖅᑑᒐᑦᑕ, ᓴᓇᕐᕈᑎᒃᓴᖃᖅᑎᑦᓯᔨᐅᒋᐊᒥᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᖅᑎᒻᒪᕆᐅᔪᓄᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓂᕆᔭᐅᔪᓂᒃ, ᐊᔪᖖᒋᓐᓂᕆᔭᐅᔪᓂᒃ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᕈᓐᓇᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᐱᓯᒪᓕᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᕆᔭᕗᑦ ᖁᑦᑎᖕᓂᖅᐹᑎᒍ5 ᐱᓕᕆᕝᕕᒋᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᐊᕋᑦᑎᒍ." ᐅᖃᖅᓱᓂᓗ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᖃᑎᒋᔭᓂ ᐊᔪᖖᒋᓐᓂᖅᐸᐅᓂᕋᖅᓱᓂᒋᑦ, ᐊᔾᔨᒌᖖᒋᐅᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᓴᖖᒋᓂᖃᕐᑑᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᖅᓯᒪᔫᓪᓗᑎᒃ. ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖃᖅᑎᒋᔭᒥᓂ ᑲᒪᔨᐅᕗᖅ ᐱᓕᕆᓂᖃᕈᓐᓇᕐᓂᖓᓄᑦ ᐃᖏᕐᕋᔪᓐᓇᖅᐸᒃᓱᓂ (ᓄᕙᒡᔪᐊᕐᓇᖃᓕᕐᓂᐅᑉ ᓯᕗᕐᖓᓂ) ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐊᒥᓱᑲᓪᓚᓐᓂᒃ ᐃᓄᑦᑎᐊᕙᓐᓂᒃ ᑲᑎᓯᓯᒪᓪᓗᓂ. "ᖁᕕᐊᒋᓪᓚᕆᒃᑕᕋ ᑲᑎᓯᖃᑦᑕᕆᐊᒥᒃ ᐅᖃᖃᑎᒋᖃᑦᑕᖅᓯᒪᔭᓐᓂᒃ." ᕉᑕ ᖃᐅᔨᓯᒪᓕᕐᒪᑦ ᐃᓚᒋᓪᓗᓂᐅᒃ ᐊᑐᕐᓂᖃᒻᒪᕆᒃᑐᑎᒍᑦ ᐊᔪᖖᒋᓐᓂᖃᖅᑑᔪᓂᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖃᑎᒥᓂᑦ ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂᓪᓗ ᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᑕᐅᓯᒪᓕᕈᓐᓇᖅᑑᓂᖏᓐᓂᒃ. "ᓱᓇᐅᕙ ᐃᓪᓕᕐᓇᕐᓂᖅᐸᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐃᓕᑦᓯᕝᕕᒋᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᐊᖅᑕᕋ ᖃᓄᐃᓂᖃᕐᓂᐅᔪᒥᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᓄᖅ ᐊᑐᓕᖅᑎᑦᓱᓐᓇᕐᓂᐊᖅᐱᒍᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᓐᓄᑦ?" “ᐃᓅᓪᓗᑕ ᑭᒃᑯᑐᐃᓐᓇᐅᓪᓗᑕ ᐱᐅᓪᓚᕆᒃᑐᐊᓘᕙᖖᒋᓐᓇᑦᑕ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂᓕ ᑐᕌᕐᕕᒃᓴᖃᓗᒃᑖᕈᓐᓇᖅᓱᑕ ᐃᓕᑉᐸᓪᓕᐊᖏᓐᓇᐅᔭᕈᒪᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᐅᓯᒋᐊᖅᑎᑦᓯᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂᒃ ᐊᔪᖖᒋᓐᓂᕆᔭᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ. ᑕᒪᑐᒥᖓ ᐅᕙᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᑐᓕᖅᑎᑦᓯᓯᒪᕙᒃᑐᖓ ᖃᐅᑕᒫᑦ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᖅᐸᓐᓂᒃᑯᑦ ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᓯᓐᓈᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕈᑎᖃᖅᐸᓐᓂᕐᓂᑦ ᖃᕆᑕᐅᔭᑎᒍᑦ." ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖅᑖᕋᓱᐊᕈᒪᒍᕕᑦ ᖃᖓᑕᓲᖅᑎᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᑦ ᓴᓇᕝᕕᖓᓐᓂ, ᕈᑕᐅᑉ ᖃᐅᔨᒋᐊᖅᓯᒪᓕᖁᕚᓯ ᓱᓇᓂᒃ ᐊᔪᖖᒋᓐᓂᖃᕆᐊᖃᕐᓂᕐᓄᑦᖅ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᖅᑖᕆᓇᓱᒍᒪᔭᕐᓂ. ᐃᓄᓐᓂᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑎᖃᓕᕆᐊᕐᓗᑎᑦ. ᐊᒻᒪᓗ, ᖃᐅᔨᒋᐊᕐᕕᒋᓗᒋᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᕐᕕᐅᓕᕈᓐᓇᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᒪᒃᐱᕋᖓᓂ ᐅᖃᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᐅᕙᓂ

www.canadiannorth.com/careers.

“I would say our entire Commercial Operations Training team is the biggest reason I love my job — we are all clear on our mandate, which is to equip the frontline with the knowledge, skills, and abilities we need to do our jobs as best as we can.” She mentions she has amazing people on her team, with varied strengths and backgrounds. Her role within her team has given her the opportunity to travel (pre‐COVID) and meet many wonderful people. “I really enjoy being able to put faces to names.”

Rhoda finds that one of the most important qualities in her co‐workers and others is to be teachable. “What is one golden nugget I can learn from any situation and how can I apply it?”

“We are imperfect as humans, but we can always aspire to continuously learn and improve. I apply this value to myself almost every day by reading or working through learning resources on the web.”

If you are interested in working in the aviation industry, Rhoda invites you to look at the requirements to apply for the position you are interested in. Start networking with people. Also, check out the careers page at www.canadiannorth.com/careers.

From the Flight Deck How often are aircraft inspected?

A friend of mine recently asked me how I know that an aircraft is safe before we take off. Before each take off, the pilot inspects the aircraft carefully look‐ ing to spot any issues that need to be addressed by maintenance staff.

You have likely seen that inspection happening before a flight, but there are also many other inspections and preventative maintenance that get carried out on a regular basis on each aircraft.

If you look in the back of the owner’s manual for your car, you will find a list of inspections and routine work that the manufacturer recommends that you carry out. In that case though, the decision about what work you do and don’t do is up to the owner of the vehicle. If the owner chooses not to carry out some of those steps, the car can still be driven on the roads. That isn’t the case for our aircraft. Just like in the case of cars, the aircraft manufacturer produces a list of maintenance inspections that need to be carried out. We use that list to develop a task list that is specific to our aircraft and our operations that also needs to be approved by Transport Canada. Once that program has been approved, we must follow it. If an inspection comes due, we don’t have the choice to skip it or delay it; the airplane isn’t allowed to fly until the inspection is done.

Based on that program, our maintenance staff carry out dedicated inspections quite often. Some inspections are relatively simple – like the inspection that is carried out daily to check items like oil levels, tire pressures, etc. Other inspections can take upwards of six weeks and require significant disassembly of the aircraft to inspect deep down inside the aircraft structure.

JONATHAN GIVON, 4OUR_XRAY ON INSTAGRAM

Sometimes we track the need for inspec‐ tions based on days since the last inspection (our aircraft have a check that is done daily as well as one that is carried out on a weekly basis). Other inspections are connected to either the hours that the aircraft has flown since the last inspection or the number of take offs and landings since the last one.

Either way, all our aircraft will see an inspec‐ tion of increasing complexity daily, weekly, about every two months, and about every two years.

In addition to inspections that target the entire aircraft, many of the individual components of the aircraft are tracked and monitored. Depending on either the hours of operation (for items that would run continuously in flight, like an engine for example) or the number of take offs and

landings (for items like landing gear), as those items reach time limits, they either come due for their own special inspection or replacement.

While all of the aircraft have multiple redundancies built into most systems, we like to treat those redundancies as backups.

To avoid the need to use those backups, we rely on a rigorous, and ongoing, preventive inspection and maintenance program for all our aircraft.

Captain Aaron Speer Vice President, Flight Operations Canadian North If you are curious about a specific topic regarding flying and aircraft operations, let us know what you’d like to learn about and we’ll try to include it in a future column. Email: editor@arcticjournal.ca

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Whooping Cranes nest amongst the security of Wood Buffalo’s vast marl wetlands. © K. Nigge, Parks Canada

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Cora Scott was an artist who developed a keen interest in the North’s plant biodiversity.

— Chantal Dussault and John Davies

The emergence of new monitoring methods offer an opportunity to improve our stewardship of whooping cranes and their critical habitat.

— Wood Buffalo National Park‐Parks Canada & The Roberta Bondar Foundation

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The Inuksuk Drum Dancers’ musical space is a place where artistry intersects with social activism.

— Dr. Mary Piercey‐Lewis

As shipping traffic growth continues in Canada’s Arctic, how will this increase affect the communities and the wildlife living in these regions?

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13 Living Above&Beyond 20 Resources 34 Education Summer Literacy Camps 36 Culture Niqihaqut 38 Adventure Old Town 40 Arctic Trivia Quiz — Alan G. Luke

41 Bookshelf 42 Inuit Forum — Natan Obed, President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

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Cora Scott resting during a hike in the Arctic, June 12, 1989.

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Flowers of the NWT Naturalist turned watercolourist

By Chantal Dussault and John Davies Cora Scott loved the North.

After arriving in Canada in the 1960s—having trained as a nurse in London, England— she spent much of her nursing career in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Scott was the first permanent nurse at Grise Fiord on the southern tip of Ellesmere Island. hile committed to her profession and her patients, she was also an artist who developed a keen interest in the North’s plant biodiversity. The legacy of her interests is now preserved in the nature art collection of the Canadian Museum of Nature.

As Canada’s national museum of natural history, the museum is known for its scientific collections of more than 14.6 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils and minerals that document environmental change over time.

Supplementing this record of biodiversity is a collection of about 2,800 works of nature art, housed in the museum’s Library and Archives at its Natural Heritage Campus in Gatineau, Quebec.

For a number of years (prior to the COVID-19 pandemic), two dedicated museum volunteers, Yolande Hachez and John Davies, have been working with the nature art collection. Among their

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duties was documenting and digitizing the artworks, ensuring that the collection could be shared more broadly via the internet.

While sleuthing out information on the many artists and their works, they came across an album entitled, “Flowers of the Northwest Territories” prepared by Cora L. Scott.

They were intrigued. Who was Cora L. Scott? The curatorial file had little information, so John and Yolande started to investigate.

An online search led them to an obituary in the newsletter of the Registered Nurses Association of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Cora Scott was born in 1930 and raised in Jamaica. She passed away in Ottawa in 2005 after decades in the North. Her love for the Arctic was so much a part of her life and spirit that she requested her ashes be scattered in Resolute Bay at Grise Fiord.

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“She was quite a character by all accounts, admired and well liked,” says Davies, after speaking with some of Scott’s friends.

Long-time friend and former colleague Constance Suite described her as “an icon of Northern nursing”. The two met decades ago, after Scott arrived at Great Whale River in Nunavik (northern Quebec) to manage the nursing station.

Scott was also an enthusiastic artist, having trained at an art school in Kingston, Jamaica. She applied her skills with watercolours, acrylics and charcoal to record the life and culture of the communities and people she lived with in the North.

One of her pastimes was to collect the local Arctic flora and to preserve and document them. She depicted the diversity of Arctic flora with a lovely watercolour painting for each of 64 plant specimens. She also took a sample of each plant, which she pressed,

mounted and inserted into the final donated album alongside each of the watercolours.

“There was a unique folk-art quality about her work that we found very compelling. Cora was particularly interesting because she was not a professional artist or botanist, although we learned that she developed considerable expertise on Arctic flora through her own observations and study,” says Davies.

The culmination of the research by Hachez and Davies was a public presentation of Scott’s album and the story of her life at the museum’s annual Open House in October 2016.

Chantal Dussault is Head of Library and Archives for the Canadian Museum of Nature. John Davies is a museum volunteer.

The photos included show samples from Cora Scott’s album, which includes 64 Arctic plant specimens that she observed and collected. On the left is a watercolour she painted alongside a pressed specimen she collected.

Her initials are on the bottom of each painting.

The notes describing the plants were added by Canadian Museum of Nature botanists.

Pedicularis flammea (Flame-Tipped Lousewort) Once the plant starts to develop seeds, the stem grows wider and taller, an adaptation that allows it to spread its seeds over a wider distance. © Canadian Museum of Nature

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Micranthes nivalis (Snow Saxifrage) Snow Saxifrage gets its common name from the late-lying snow patches and cool tundra on which it prefers to grow. © Canadian Museum of Nature (4)

Rhododendron groenlandicum (Common Labrador Tea) Also known as Ledum groenlandicum, this is a flowering plant in the subsection Ledum of the large genus Rhododendron in the family Ericaceae.

The leaves of this plant can be brewed to make a soothing tea.

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Oxytropis maydelliana (Maydell's locoweed) A clumped perennial with pale yellow, sweet pea-like flowers, densely clustered at the top of 15 to 25 cm stems. Pinnate leaves have oval leaflets that, along with the stems, are covered with soft hairs.

Although this plant is in the bean family, its fruits are far too hard to eat. The roots, however, make a tasty treat and can be eaten raw or fried.

Erigeron humilis (Low Fleabane) Summer flower with many slender branches and very narrow leaves in the Asteraceae family. It is found in open turf, preferring moist soil, but can be found in dry sites, too. It grows 8 to 15 cm tall in turf.

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This species can sometimes be confused with the closely related One-flowered Fleabane (Erigeron eriocephalus), but if you look closely at the hairs of the Low Fleabane, the walls between the cells are vivid purple.

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Animating the voices and spirit of Inuit Nunangat

Qilak, the main Inuit Gallery featuring INUA, at Qaumajuq, the Inuit Art Centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. © Lindsay Reid

The Winnipeg Art Gallery and the team of curators behind INUA, are pleased to announce a new online platform that invites the public to experience INUA virtually.

Made possible by the exhibition’s presenting sponsor RBC, INUA Online features an immer‐ sive 360° tour of the gallery space, detailed background on each artist, and access to a growing library of virtual sessions. A central

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The audio companion was created in part‐ nership with the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq/Pijariuqsarniq Project, an initiative that provides innovative, hands‐on mentorship and training opportunities across

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the north and south for Inuit and Inuvialuit working in the arts.

INUA brings together more than 90 Inuit artists from across the Arctic, urban south, and circumpolar communities. New audio and video of the artists and their works will continue to be added to the Exhibit on a regular basis until March 2022. https://www.wag.ca/inua­online/

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Prize money up for grabs

Hannah Uniuqsaraq, Chair of the AIP Charitable Trust, and Lucy Kuptana, Vice Chair of the AIP Charitable Trust, speak before the 8th Annual AIP Awards Ceremony in Ottawa, Ontario. © Justin Tang/Arctic Inspiration Prize

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Arctic Inspiration Prize (AIP). Nominations are now being accepted for the 2021 prize with up to 10 teams able to win prize money to help launch initiatives to benefit their Arctic communities.

Teams can be nominated in one of three categories: one exceptional team can win $1 million, up to four teams can win up to $500,000 each, and up to seven youth teams can win up to $100,000 each. To make the prize more accessible to young people across the North, the AIP will accept video submissions for the youth prize category this year.

Potential projects can focus on one or more areas such as, but not limited to: education, training, health and wellness, environment and climate change, recreation, tourism, culture, language, and economic development.

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Language, culture, and societal values awarded

Representing the highest honour the Indigenous community bestows upon its own achievers, Indspire has announced the 2021 Award recip‐ ients. Two Inuit take away awards this year in the Lifetime Achievement Award category and the Culture, Heritage & Spirituality category.

From Arctic Bay, Nunavut, Qapik Attagutsiak’s lifework has embodied both Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Inuit societal values. Her lifetime has been spent living traditionally: raising dog teams, assisting with camp life, practicing midwifery and mental wellness support, sewing and child rearing. For these activities she received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Now at 101 years young, Qapik’s longevity and legacy represent a shining example for young Inuit to follow.

Language and culture are foundational components of Emily Angulalik’s identity as an Inuinnaq woman — elements which she has made it her life’s mission to preserve and share.

With over 20 years as a teacher and cultural ambassador, she has dedicated much of her time to educating others about Inuinnaqtun, a dialect of the Inuktitut language. From Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Emily received the Culture, Heritage & Spirituality Award.

Created in 1993, in conjunction with the United Nation’s International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the Indspire Awards recognize Indigenous professionals and youth who demonstrate outstanding career achieve‐ ment. They promote self‐esteem and pride for Indigenous communities and provide outstanding role models for Indigenous youth.

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Left: Qapik Attagutsiak, recipient of Indspire's 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award. © Parks Canada

Right: Emily Angulalik, recipient of Indspire's 2021 Culture, Heritage & Spirituality Award. © CanadaHelps

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Rapping, fiddling, crooning and comedy at FOTR

North Star Calling. © Leela Gilday

Leela Gilday will be performing at Folk on the Rocks this year. She won a 2021 Juno award for Indigenous artist/group of the year with her album North Star Calling. Check out this Juno Winner on the FOTR stage this summer! © Pat Kane

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Yellowknife’s biggest music festival is celebrating 40 years this year and will take place July 16 to 18.

Headliners include Cartel Madras, a Calgary duo composed of sisters Bhagya Ramesh and Priya Ramesh with their Goonda Rap, covering punk, house music and South Indian trap genres, as well as the popular Iqaluit band, The Jerry Cans.

Yellowknife performers include Leela Gilday, Kid Gali (Bryan Tuyishime), fiddler Wesley Archie Peter Hardisty, teen garage rockers Quantum Haze, country crooner “Baby Brian” Weadick and writer and musician Laurie Sarkadi.

Artists from other areas of the North to perform include Abe Drennan, a folk artist from Inuvik; Fort Good Hope rapper Crook the Kid (Dylan Jones); folk‐country artist Joey O'Neil from the Yukon; and Celeigh Cardinal, an R&B soul artist from Edmonton, Alberta.

Looking for a laugh, the Absurd Turd Media comedy show aims to tickle your funny bone with Big Folkin Laughs and for the 19+ crowd, Glam on the Rock will entertain with a small burlesque show.

There will be free family programming in Somba K'e Civic Plaza from 12‐7 pm on the Friday night.

Yellowknives Dene Drummers will open and close the festival. Canadian North is title sponsor of Folk on the Rocks.

For the full lineup, visit the Folk on the Rocks website at www.folkontherocks.com.

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Remote tourism operators to host guests Thirteen remote operations have been approved by the NWT's Office of the Chief Public Health Officer (OCPHO) to host out‐of‐ territory clients this summer as part of the territory’s remote tourism plan. Operations include big game outfitting, fishing and paddling.

Under the plan, visitors can self‐isolate on‐site at a remote tourism location, instead of in one of the territory’s isolation hubs. Visitors must submit a self‐isolation plan for approval by the Chief Public Health Officer.

Tourism operators must demonstrate that they can carry out business with no, or very minimal, contact between travellers and NWT residents who are not employees of the remote tourism operation. Scheduled overnight lay‐ overs that are necessary for clients in transit to remote tourism sites must only take place in Yellowknife, Hay River, Inuvik, Fort Smith, Fort Simpson and Norman Wells.

Paddling, just one of the activities in NWT’s remote tourism plan. © Colin Field/NWT Tourism

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IVA winner announced

Zacharias Kunuk. © Levi Uttak. 2018. Courtesy Isuma Distribution.

The Indigenous Voices Award (IVA) recipients were announced on National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21, in a virtual gala at 5 pm.

Congratulations to Zacharias Kunuk for his book, The Shaman’s Apprentice that won in the Published Work in an Indigenous Language category.

The IVAs were established in 2017 to support and nurture the work of Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada.

The Indigenous Voices Awards aim to support Indigenous literary production in its diversity and complexity. The awards honour the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and rejects cultural appropriation. The IVA Board endeavours to create opportunities for mentorship, professionalization, and creative collaboration among applicants, jurors, and other members of the Indigenous artistic community when possible.

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Games teach on-the-land survival skills Nineteen school teams from across the Northwest Territories competed in the Traditional Games Championships this year during March and April.

Youth between the ages of 10 and 12 competed in the One‐Foot‐High Kick, Wrist Hang, Triple Jump, Stick Pull, Snow Snake and the recently introduced Snowshoe Race. All traditional game events are based on going on the land and the hunting, trapping, and fishing skills necessary for survival. For example, the Stick Pull is a greased pole that represents

pulling a slippery fish out of the water. The One‐Foot‐High Kick is a game traditionally played by Inuit to develop skills to deal with the different types of land conditions they had to face during hunting seasons. Hunters had to be quiet, fast, and agile to have successful hunts to provide for their families. The Snow Snake event dates back more than 500 years and was originally a form of communication between Dene villages. Over the years and long winters, throwing “snow snakes” developed

into a competitive sport between different communities after the men returned from the annual hunt.

The Team from École St. Joseph School in Yellowknife won the Championships with an overall score of 26 points. Students found the events fun and challenging.

Students did not travel this year to compete in the Games but participated at their home schools and results were tallied online.

Left: The Team from William McDonald Middle School in Yellowknife came in second place with 25 points. Front Row L to R: Peter Staples, Calen Knight, Journey Bergman, Mya Paul. Back Row L to R: Nyah Morin, Haley Sauve, Wesley Lizotte, Logan Lizotte, Dante Almond. Wesley Lizotte came in first in both the Triple Jump and One-Foot-High Kick. © Darren Wicks, Coach

Peyton Catholique from Mildred Hall School in Yellowknife earned the top overall time of 2:34 (male and female) in the Wrist Hang event. © Crystal Catholique

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ÉSJS Junior Traditional Team Members (and cousins).

L to R: Nolan Dusome and James Taylor. James placed first in the Stick Pull event, third in the Triple Jump, and second in the One-Foot-High Kick. Nolan tied second with James in the One-Foot-High Kick. © Tamara Statchook

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Award recognizes mining leader

First-ever diamond drilling part of targeted 2021 program

In May, the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum’s Bedford Canadian Young Mining Leaders Award was presented to Samwillie Grey‐Scott in recognition of his work recruiting Inuit miners to Glencore’s Raglan mine in Nunavik.

Grey‐Scott coordinates Raglan’s Tamatumani program, where he oversees the recruitment, training, and organizational development of Inuit employees at the mine site. He has also helped launch the Pigunnaqugut project, designed to help move Inuit into higher‐level positions at the mine site.

NWT Kimberlites show promise Arctic Star Exploration Corp. has received more detailed geological logs for the Birch kimberlite.

Kimberlite 1 is a black olivine poor resedi‐ mented volcanoclastic kimberlite and Kimberlite 2 is a grey clast supported olivine rich resedi‐ mented volcanoclastic kimberlite. Kimberlite 1 has a high percentage of mudstones imparting the dark colour. Kimberlite 2 has abundant mantle derived fragments and indicator minerals.

Coarser grained kimberlite with mantle derived minerals has a higher probability of containing diamond than the finer grained mantle mineral poor kimberlite.

Five kimberlites in total have been discovered during the Spring 2021 exploration program on the Diagras project, Lac de Gras district. Summer explor‐ ation plans will focus on and around the kimber‐ lites that return interesting diamond results.

Zine/lead mining may move forward Osisko Metals is assessing the potential for restarting zinc/lead mining at Pine Point, east of Hay River. Winter drilling at Pine Point has found positive signs that might reduce the cost of developing a mine at the site.

New hydrogeological testing at Pine Point indicates a significant and positive change to the company’s understanding of ground water flow conditions with potential to significantly reduce costs related to future dewatering. The under‐ ground water flow appears to be preferentially controlled by faults and/or fracture zones with little influence related to formational aquifers.

The new information will be included in an updated Preliminary Economic Assessment in the first quarter of 2022 with a new 3D hydrogeo‐ logical model, and it should significantly lower estimates for life‐of‐mine water management.

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White Gold Corp. has announced significant soil geochemistry results from 2020 soil sampling at its Betty property. The Betty property consists of 860 claims totalling 17,127 hectares that cover the strike extension of the east‐trending dextral strike‐slip Coffee Creek Fault which exerts important structural controls on mineralization at the Coffee deposit. The Betty property hosts multiple targets with potential for several mineral deposit types including orogenic gold and precious and base metal veins. 2020 exploration work included ground magnetic surveys and 2,030 infill soil geochemistry samples in several areas which has further enhanced several anomalies on the property that will be further evaluated in 2021. Planned exploration work for 2021 consists of first‐ever diamond drilling on several targets on the Betty property, as well as a new detailed structural interpretation.

White Gold Corp. also announced significant soil geochemistry results from the Company’s 2020 exploration program outlining significant gold anomalies on its Nolan property, located approximately 50 km west of Dawson City, Yukon.

The Nolan property is comprised of 2,219 claims across 43,778 hectares in the active Sixtymile placer gold camp on which several kilometre scale gold anomalies have been identified.

Planned exploration work for the 2021 season includes geological mapping and prospecting, fixed‐wing airborne LiDAR surveys, detailed structural and geochemical interpretations, GT Probe soil‐bedrock interface sampling, induced polarization and resistivity surveys, and first‐ ever diamond drilling on the Cali target.

Marking the beginning of its 2021 exploration program, White Gold Corp. has begun diamond drilling at the Ryan’s Surprise and Ulli’s Ridge Targets.

2021 marks the 125th anniversary of the discovery of gold in the Klondike. The Discovery Claim Bonanza Creek was staked by George Washington Carmack and touched off the Gold Rush on August 17, 1896. This giant carved wood gold miner displayed in Murdoch’s Gem Shop in Whitehorse, Yukon, celebrates the gold mining days of yore. © Doris Ohlmann

The Ryan's and Ulli’s targets are situated on a 6.5 km long x 1.0 km wide, north‐south trend of anomalous gold and arsenic in soils, which extends from the Ulli’s Ridge target in the south to the Teacher’s showing in the north. The proximity of Ryan’s and Ulli’s Ridge to the company’s existing mineral resources at Golden Saddle and Arc makes these highly strategic targets.

The 2021 diamond drilling comprises 2,500 m in eight holes to follow up on multiple high‐ grade gold intercepts from the 2020 diamond drilling program.

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Whooping Cranes form lasting bonds, usually mating for life. © K. Nigge, Parks Canada

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Species at Risk New monitoring methods Wood Buffalo National Park‘s vast size and iconic wildlife have helped make it one of Canada’s most famous national parks. The lands that comprise the northern third of the park are unique : an endless series of springs and sinkholes, lakes and wetlands, all interconnected through groundwater seepage and flow. Wood Buffalo is known today for providing the habitat for the world’s last wild, migratory flock of whooping cranes— North America’s largest bird. hooping Cranes begin their lives in nests built by mating pairs amongst the thousands of ponds that pockmark the flat expanse of the park. A 380-million-year-old limestone bedrock that is crumbling through water and weather erosion underlies these wetlands. When glaciers passed over this vast area in the last ice age, their immense weight scoured these rocks and leveled the landscapes. When the ice age ended, a huge and rapid melt left old river channels, eskers, gravels and erratics on the surface. The rounded surface ponds, commonly referred to as a marl wetland, were left behind amongst these deposited gravels and underneath, chemical erosion amongst the limestone helps form the park’s many sinkholes and caves. These marl wetland habitats and their sheer extent are unique in the world which cover hundreds of square kilometres.

Whooping Cranes choose these ponds to build their nests due to their inaccessibility to predators, relative seclusion from competing bird species, and the availability of insects, amphibians, plants and small fish upon which the cranes depend for survival.

In spite of occasional threats such as floods and wildfires, these fortified ponds remain a refuge for which the whooping cranes are well adapted. The potential impact of drying from climate change remains a possible threat in the future, as do issues from habitat fragmentation and urbanization during the long migration from Wood Buffalo to their wintering home in Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Texas.

Whooping Cranes are perhaps best known as the symbol of international conservation. In historical references, some European travellers recall seeing legendary white birds by the hundreds. As settlers spread and converted the Great Plains and coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico into farmlands and cities, whooping crane habitat began to shrink. For many years, unrestricted hunting for both meat and trophy purposes drove cranes to the brink of extinction and by the early 1960s, all migratory populations of whooping cranes had become extinct—save for the one that travelled from Wood Buffalo to Aransas each year.

Through a determined effort by both Canadian and American governments and other conservation partners, the number of whooping cranes climbed from fewer than 50 in the early 1960s to more than 500 today. Additional efforts in the United States established new populations, which are non-migratory, to help secure the future of this species. The story of the collapse and the re-emergence of the whooping crane is now well understood by conservation practitioners and serves as one example of contributing to bring an endangered species back from the brink.

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At the frontlines of whooping crane monitoring in the wetlands of Wood Buffalo, biologists and conservation specialists of the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) and Parks Canada (PC) assess factors that could impact the cranes and their habitat, like the quality of water and the encroachment of potential threats. They also conduct a series of monitoring flights in May and July each year, checking on known nesting locations, keeping a lookout for new nests and counting chicks. It was by chance that the habitat of whooping cranes was protected in the expanses of Wood Buffalo, whose boundaries were established almost one hundred years ago. Until the mid 1950s, when conservationists documented for the first time

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These vast marl wetlands are RAMSAR (Convention on Wetlands of International Importance) significant and unique in the world. © KGedling/Parks Canada

the presence of the Whooping cranes nesting in the park, their nesting site was a mystery. By a stroke of good fortune, their last refuge was located in this protected place, helping this last wild population survive.

In recent years, the wild population is doing well, with increases in numbers by as much as 4 per cent per year. In 2019, during the last aerial survey, more than 90 nests were counted, including 11 outside of the park. As the population expands, the challenge of counting and protecting them also increases.

The challenges of monitoring the cranes were exacerbated in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic set in. Border closures in the NWT and Canada and newer, stricter protocols while sharing confined space in helicopters temporarily set traditional wildlife monitoring methods back. And with stricter measures in place now, and possibly in the future, fieldwork will have to be versatile to both in-person and non-personal methods. As of 2018, new technologies have emerged that allow us to keep an eye on the cranes, even if the human eye can’t be everywhere all the time.

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“From space, we have an extraordinary opportunity to grasp the vast distances that Whooping Cranes travel, twice each year, from their birthplace in Wood Buffalo National Park to their over-wintering area in Aransas NWR. Even out one window of the ISS, we cannot see the entire corridor that they must navigate through storms and human disruption. To see even one Whooping Crane in the wild by air or on the surface, is to share a passion to protect its fragile life. Whooping Cranes are magnificent in their size and colour, and in their miraculous feat of migration. And they do it unprotected, out-of-doors, every minute of every day. We must use all of our technological knowhow to safeguard these precious life forms.”

CWS and PC have already been thinking about the long-term sustainability of traditional whooping crane monitoring methods as the population grows and habitat expands. One of the most likely methods to augment the existing monitoring programs for whooping cranes is aerial and satellite photography. This method was piloted by Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first woman in space, and a lifelong conservationist with a particular interest in whooping cranes. Dr. Bondar and her team at the Roberta Bondar Foundation are using satellite imagery, aerial and ground photography as part of a project to document several of the world’s most endangered avian species.

The whooping cranes of Wood Buffalo National Park is the first population that Dr. Bondar and the Roberta Bondar Foundation are photographing for their Space for Birds project. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) acquire images according to geographic coordinates that Dr. Bondar as Principal Investigator, provides NASA. This covers staging and stop-over areas in the Canadian Prairies and American Midwest, and over the Texas Gulf of Mexico coast where the cranes overwinter.

As the nesting area of the whooping cranes in Wood Buffalo National Park is north of the orbit of the ISS, satellite images provide the space perspective of the more northerly areas of the migration corridor. Satellites also provide information on habitat, especially on water levels and wildfires. This information is in real time and also can be retrieved historically for comparison. With improved resolution of the sensors of these satellites, small white dots that are Whooping Cranes could be identified. This is an exciting new area of research into monitoring technologies that will aid conservation efforts.

On helicopter survey flights with PC and the CWS, the Foundation recorded high resolution still images and videos of Whooping Crane pairs with and without their

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Try finding nesting Whooping Cranes amongst all of this! © Parks Canada

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standing out as a lone white dot in the midst of the rest of the boreal landscape. The results would be used to augment traditional fieldwork practices and help in covering large landscapes more efficiently. As the Whooping Crane populations continue to recover, and their home range in the NWT continues to expand, aerial surveillance in aircraft becomes more challenging. It’s possible that citizen science enthusiasts could help biologists in their monitoring efforts, while becoming more aware of the importance of Whooping cranes themselves. Work on determining if this technique is practical is currently being tested.

As new technologies and techniques emerge, they offer exciting possibilities for enhanced protection for Whooping cranes and other migratory species at risk. In a place as vast as Wood Buffalo the emergence of these new monitoring methods offer an opportunity to improve our stewardship of whooping cranes and their critical habitat. young, and later over Saskatchewan, the US Midwest and the Gulf of Mexico coast as the cranes migrated. Groundwork includes Dr. Bondar’s high resolution video and still images taken on land and by boat of Whooping Crane behaviour and habitat. These three perspectives (space, aerial, ground) of the Whooping Crane migration corridor underscore the vast distances and required habitats that the wild needs. Only through international partnerships amongst governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can Whooping Cranes survive the challenges of climate change and habitat loss.

Another technique currently being considered is the application of crowdsourcing: recruiting virtual volunteers from around the world to sift through thousands of satellite images of wetlands in the search for Whooping cranes on their nests—again, usually

Contributed by the Wood Buffalo National Park-Parks Canada and The Roberta Bondar Foundation.

Wood Buffalo National Park Facebook: @ParksCanadaNWT Roberta Bondar Foundation: http://www.therbf.org and https://spaceforbirds.wordpress.com Twitter: @RBondarFdn @RobertaBondar @Space_for_Birds Instagram: robertabondarfoundation Facebook: @TheRobertaBondarFoundation Whooping Crane with a fledgling chick. © K. Nigge, Parks Canada

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Current junior instructors for the Iqaluit Music Society’s annual music camps and the Inuksuk Drum Dancers. Top, L to R: Laura Nowdluk, Chloë Nevin, Minnie Akeeagok, Dr. Mary Piercey-Lewis (Director), Daniela Calamayan, Camryn O’Dell, and Makpa Otak.© Patrick McDermott

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Music educators of the future Who they are The Inuksuk Drum Dancers, founded and directed by Dr. Mary Piercey-Lewis, is a performing arts ensemble from Inuksuk High School in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The group performs traditional Inuit music, which includes throat singing and drum dancing, and contemporary Inuit songs from across Nunavut.

Throat singing—historically, a game that was played by women during the long and cold hours spent in the iglu—involves the creation of sounds deep within the throat that usually emulate the sounds of nature, such as the wind, birds, dog teams, snow crunching, polar bears, wolves, and mosquitoes.

Drum dancing includes drumming, dancing, and singing songs that carry stories of personal experiences, humorous anecdotes, and traditional Inuit morals and values.

At times, the group veers away from tradition to create innovative musical renditions that incorporate both traditional and contemporary musical styles.

The Inuksuk Drum Dancers represent Inuit culture from rural Nunavut within the urban context of Iqaluit. The group chooses to present traditional symbols of their Inuit culture with aspirations of making it visible to a wider audience. Through this commitment to presenting Inuit culture in their performances, the members strive to reinforce Inuit traditions and values and advocate the use of Inuktitut.

In Iqaluit, the Inuksuk Drum Dancers have performed in concerts with the Gryphon Trio, the Ensemble Made in Canada, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra.

At all these concerts, the finale numbers were arranged by Dr. Mary Piercey-Lewis so that southern professional musicals could play Inuit music with northern students.

They have travelled to share Inuit music and culture in Alaska, Greenland, Ottawa, Toronto, Charlottetown, Grande Prairie, Puvirnituq and more.

In 2015, the Inuksuk Drum Dancers embarked on a collaborative musical and cultural adventure with Nipiit Katittut-Voices United. This ongoing multi-year endeavour has connected Inuit youth with young people in Ottawa who share culture through singing. Two new Inuktitut choral pieces were commissioned for these groups to sing jointly: Inngiqtut, written by Mark Sirett in 2015; and Qaujimavunga Kinaummangaarma, written by Looee Arreak and Laura Hawley in 2017.

The ensemble has two albums: Inuit Inngiqtingit/Inuit Choral Music I and II, produced

by Chris Coleman at Nuvu Music in 2016 and 2018, respectively. These albums can be found free on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/Rc6ZZJFbUFG3oBw48 and https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/u72xwYYt3kVmk5uH9. Their third album will be released in the fall of 2021.

Throat singing at Woodroffe United Church in Ottawa.

Choir exchange trip with Ottawa Children’s Choir: Nipiit Katittut-Voices United project. Olivia and Molly (Inuksuk Drum Dancers Alumnae) are present-day junior instructors for the Iqaluit Music Society’s annual music camps.

Olivia is the current throat singing instructor for the Inuksuk Drum Dancers. © Bruce Gordon

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Arctic Winter Games 2020 Cultural Contingent. Cancelled due to Covid-19.

Top, L to R: Minnie Akeeagok, Chloë Nevin, Makpa Otak, Camryn O’Dell, Daniela Calamayan, and Laura Nowdluk. © Patrick McDermott

Their music education philosophy The Inuksuk Drum Dancers’ musical space is a place where artistry intersects with social activism: music education as social justice. In this group, music is used as a portal to Inuit culture, language, and identity. Students gain musical skills on their respective instruments (guitar, Inuit drum, and voice) by working with Inuit musicians and language specialists, receiving group lessons from music instructors and tradition-bearers, and attending classes.

Unlike other music programs in southern Canada, the music of Nunavut is honoured in music curriculum so that students can connect with Elders, the land, Inuktitut, Inuit culture, Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit-traditional Indigenous knowledge, and each other.

The performance and study of music created by Inuit artists provides the springboard for discussions about current issues important to Inuit. Students learn how music is related to Inuit identity negotiation and how it can be a powerful vehicle for delivering important life messages to a wide audience.

Themes discussed include: (1) Music as political resistance: this includes defying stereotypes, resisting cultural oppression, reinforcing historically and rooted traditions and values, and insisting on simultaneously living in two cultures; (2) Connections to land/place; and (3) Music as social action: this includes healing, telling history from an Indigenous perspective, pride, social empowerment, and relationships with people, animals, the spiritual world, and the environment.

In practical terms, this philosophy plays out by engaging students in social activism through discussion, performance and creation of Inuit music, and participation in the decolonization process. For instance, within the community of Iqaluit, the Inuksuk Drum Dancers participate in real-life events that leave influential marks on the lives of everyone present. Each year, students participate in the Montreal Massacre Vigil on December 6. Music students choose and perform Inuit music that addresses the issue of violence against women and children: bringing recognition to the lives of those who have been hurt, solidarity and help for those who continue to live in abusive relationships or conditions, and awareness and openness for discussions about violence. See video of Inuksuk Drum Dancers’ Arnaup Nallinninga (Special Love of a Woman) at: https://youtu.be/_i1ltJGt2fI. Left: Alika Komangapik (Inuksuk Drum Dancers Alumna) Drum Dancer. National Indigenous Peoples Day celebration at Joamie School in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Alika is the current drum dancing junior instructor for the Iqaluit Music Society’s annual music camps. She also teaches drum dancing techniques and choreography to the Inuksuk Drum Dancers. © Vincent Desrosiers Below: Concert at Woodroffe United Church in Ottawa. Choir exchange trip with Ottawa Children’s Choir: Nipiit Katittut-Voices United project. © Bruce Gordon

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In 2016, members of the Inuksuk Drum Dancers participated in a reconciliation project with the National Arts Centre. Students collaborated and wrote a song in response to the poem “I Lost My Talk” written by Mi’ kmaw scholar, Rita Joe. It is based on the historical and ongoing effects of the residential school system in Canada. Many of the students interviewed their Inuit Elders who attended residential schools. The song, Uqausira Asiujijara (I Lost My Talk) is heartbreakingly beautiful and has touched the lives of those involved. It continues to make an impact on those who hear it and is used as a springboard for discussions with students all over Canada about forced relocation of indigenous peoples, residentials schools, and reconciliation. See video of Uqausira Asiujijara (I Lost My Talk) at: https://youtu.be/hWbXYn2Kgf8.

Since 2008, the group has participated in the annual “Sisters in Spirit” ceremony held in Iqaluit. The “Sisters in Spirit” initiative is a program led by the Native Women’s Association of Canada which honours missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and shows support for their loved ones. Please see the excerpt from the 2020 vigil held in Iqaluit on October 4 at: www.facebook.com/748720647/posts/10164014958020648/?extid=0&d=n.

Dr. Mary Piercey-Lewis, Director and founder of the Inuksuk Drum Dancers and Music teacher at Inuksuk High School. © Chloë Nevin

Dr. Mary Piercey‐Lewis Dr. Mary Piercey‐Lewis has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology.

Her research explored how the Inuit of Arviat, Nunavut, use their musical practices to negotiate what it means to be “inummariit”—“real Inuit” in response to massive sociocultural changes since three distinctive groups were resettled there in the 1950s. She holds a Master of Music in Music Education and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto. Presently, she lives in Nunavut, where she has taught music for over 20 years. She writes choral arrangements of Inuit songs for the Inuksuk Drum Dancers. Several of these arrangements can be heard on

Music educators of the future Vision, passion, and forward thinking created the foundation of the Inuksuk Drum Dancers. The ensemble is a place where Inuit music, culture, and language are honoured and promoted; an environment that understands the natural desire of human expression through singing; one that nurtures musical and artistic development of young voices; and where integrity, empathy, and self-confidence forms part of the development of each young person.

Many of the members of the Inuksuk Drum Dancers have gone on to be junior instructors at the Iqaluit Music Society’s annual music camps. Others have helped teachers at Nakasuk, Joamie, and Nanook Schools to teach Inuktitut songs to young children. Several are professional performing artists, and many are employed with Qaggiavuut: Nunavut Performing Arts. Young people want to share their talents, skills, and knowledge— thus, recently, training in how to be a successful music educator was added to the group’s curriculum.

As part of their musical training, each member now participates in a music leadership component that uses Inuit music, culture, and language as its foundation.

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit-Traditional Inuit Knowledge is at the core of this component.

Music pedagogy suitable for early childhood educators, how to collaborate with Inuit tradition-bearers in the music classroom, and entrepreneurship: music business management are included. The vision is that members of the Inuksuk Drum Dancers become Nunavut’s music educators of the future.

Submitted by Dr. Mary Piercey-Lewis, Director of Music, Inuksuk High School, Iqaluit, Nunavut.

the two albums mentioned in the main article. Dr. Piercey‐ Lewis’ publication, Inuit Inngiusingit: A Collection of Inuit Choral Music (Inhabit Media 2016), is a songbook for students, teachers, and musicians who are interested in learning Inuit music. There are 15 songs transcribed from Inuit musicians. Students and teachers will find the musical arrangements and the accompanying compact disc useful in encouraging the singing of Inuktitut songs in the classroom and at home. It is her hope that Inuit Inngiusingit: A Collection of Inuit Choral Music “empowers students to develop musicianship, to enjoy the opportuni‐ ties to perform great music, and to participate in Inuit culture through singing.”

Dr. Piercey‐Lewis is a 2021 Juno Award Winner. She received the Musicounts “Music Teacher of the Year Award” at the Junos on June 6, 2021. A special qujannamiik— thank you to all who support music education initiatives in the North!

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Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices Research Project Mapping culturally significant marine areas With climate change making it easier for ships to navigate Canada’s Arctic, shipping traffic has more than doubled in the past 30 years in the area. But as this growth continues, how will this increase affect the communities and the wildlife living in these regions? Inuit have lived in the Canadian Arctic region known as Inuit Nunangat for thousands of years. They have established deep relationships with the land, water and sea ice, relying on harvesting country food from the ocean and coastal areas to feed their families and communities. The increasing ship traffic through these regions is changing how these communities and wildlife live. o address these concerns, the Canadian Coast Guard, Transport Canada, and Canadian Hydrographic Service are developing “Low Impact Shipping Corridors” to encourage ships to use these lowerrisk corridors to minimize potential impacts. To support these efforts, we established the Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices (ACNV) research project with our partners, with the goals of using scientific and Inuit knowledge to map culturally significant marine areas and local concerns, and to make recommendations for managing and governing ships through corridors.

In May 2021, the ACNV project received the Governor General’s Innovation Award, celebrating a number of key innovative aspects to the project’s approach.

The ACNV research project represents a collaborative approach involving southern-based university researchers, regional and national decision makers, and northern-based Inuit and northern community members at all stages of the research project. This project also promoted a communitybased approach, where local Inuit and Northern youth were trained as community research associates who recruited expert knowledge holders in their communities to participate in the data collection activities and co-facilitated the community mapping workshops and interviews. In addition to capacity-building, this approach also involved co-learning experiences where northern and southern knowledge and skills could be exchanged.

This innovative approach responds to a larger transformation in thinking about how research in Inuit Nunangat should be done. In the National Inuit Strategy on Research launched in 2018, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) called for a shift away from colonial approaches in research, in favour of supporting research that respects Inuit self-determination in Inuit Nunangat research.

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Community-identified recommendations for low-impact shipping corridors.

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This requires, among other things, research institutions to partner with Inuit to align research with Inuit priorities and to build the capacity of Inuit to conduct research, all while using ethical conduct in research. Inuit must be actively involved in decisionmaking processes that affect them, their communities, and their region.

In recognition of this need for a new approach to research, the ACNV was carefully designed to incorporate these concepts into all aspects of the project. At its initial stage, the project’s aim, objectives, and plans were co-created through a workshop involving Inuit rights holders, academics, government, non-governmental and Inuit organization representatives and industry stakeholders, held at the 2015 ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting. This collaborative process ensured that the project would take an approach that was locally relevant and based on agreed principles from the beginning.

Fourteen communities across Inuit Nunangat participated in the ACNV project: Aklavik, Inuvik, Paulatuk, Sachs Harbour, Tuktoyaktuk, Ulukhaktok, Arviat, Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay), Salliq (Coral Harbour), Uqsuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven), Iqaluit, Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Qausuittuq (Resolute) and Salluit. We worked with community-based organizations such as Hunters’ and Trappers’ Associations, hamlet councils, village offices, community corporations, the Ikaarvik Barriers: Bridges Program, and Arviani Aqqiumavvik Society. Through ongoing communication with these community-based project partners, we were able to discuss how this research should be done.

While in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, Natalie Carter verifies results with Ivan Koonoo, a research participant.

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As recommended by our project partners, the project included the development of local research capacity, by training local youth in each community to co-facilitate the data collection as paid community research associates. Three-day long co-learning and mapping training workshops were held in each community. But this was not a conventional one-way approach to skills training. Instead, the idea was to allow southern-based (visiting) team members, community partners, and community research associates to learn from each other.

Community research associates provided guidance to southernbased team members on how to phrase our questions for research participants, noting, for example, how these questions would translate in Inuktut. As part of the co-learning exchange, southern-based team members provided community research associates with training in mapping and note-taking to be used in the data collection phase.

Working with community research associates not only helped contribute to building Inuit and northern research capacity, but it also produced better results for the project itself. After all, community research associates were intimately familiar with their own communities and were best placed to

identify research participants to be recruited for the data collection and to provide direction on how to conduct the data collection.

The data collection involved community mapping workshops and interviews in English and Inuktut, co-facilitated by community research associates and southernbased team members working together. During the community mapping workshops, research participants from the community were provided with base maps as prompts to identify and discuss significant features such as travel routes and animal migration routes as well as culturally significant areas where community members harvest, travel, and camp. Interviews were also held with individuals who were not able to attend the community mapping workshop. Throughout this process, we used feedback from project partners and our observations after each community visit to consider how to improve the next visit.

We then created draft summary reports with key findings and digitized maps for each community and shared them with community members for their comments and corrections. This verification phase also involved holding meetings in the communities where we could share the results more broadly in the community and get more input on the maps. We used the feedback we received in the final community reports.

Through this process, we were able to work with the communities to map culturally significant marine areas for each season — places where community members fish, hunt, travel and harvest. Communities identified the impacts and risks of shipping traffic. While shipping is important for bringing resources to the communities where

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there are no roads leading in or out, there are also concerns that increased shipping and ship noise are disturbing marine animals, affecting communities’ food security.

When ships disturb the sea ice, this can delay ice freeze-up, which can make it dangerous for residents to travel. Communities were also worried about oil spills and other contaminants that marine vessels may put into the water. From these concerns, the communities identified recommendations on what corridors were preferred, what areas should be avoided, how vessel operations should be modified, where more charting is required, and what restrictions on shipping should be made, such as speed limits and seasonal no anchoring zones.

Community-based collaborative knowledge co-production doesn’t just mean working with partners before and during the research. It is important to ensure communities also benefit from the research after the research phase. We shared final community reports with each of the communities, including the community research associates and community partners who were involved. We also hosted a project results workshop in Iqaluit, where we shared and discussed the results with representatives from the Government of Nunavut, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, community research associates, and academic researchers. We also shared the recommendations for managing the Low Impact Shipping Corridors with the relevant Government of Canada agencies directly. Written reports and maps from this project are available publicly at www.arcticcorridors.ca.

Throughout all this, the experts who shared their knowledge (Inuit organizations, knowledge holders, communities, etc.) maintained the ownership of their data. After all, it is their cultural knowledge. This is in line with the principles outlined in ITK’s National Inuit Strategy on Research.

These collective efforts in the ACNV project have played an important role in ensuring that Inuit knowledge of culturally significant marine areas — and recommendations from communities themselves — are considered in the marine corridors in Canada. We are sincerely grateful for the contributions of the 133 research participants, 59 youth community researchers, and community partners who worked with us. We also thank our funders for their financial support for this project. The

Dr. Jackie Dawson in Beechey Island, Nunavut.

Courtesy of Environment, Society & Policy Group, uOttawa (3)

recent Governor General’s Innovation Award for the ACNV project was a refreshing recognition of all of our collective hard work towards this project’s success. We hope this will help inspire further thinking about how future research in Inuit Nunangat can be done respectfully, using communitybased collaborative knowledge co-production.

Submitted by Jackie Dawson, Natalie Ann Carter, and Gloria Song for the Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices research team.

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Summer Literacy Camps Strengthening community bonds

By Mélanie Valcin and Jade Duchesneau Bernier The summer literacy camps are the result of an eight-year partnership between Kativik Ilisarniliriniq, Frontier College and the Makivik Corporation. Initiated in Kuujjuaraapik with the support of ESUMA in 2014, the camps have gradually expanded to 12 of the 14 Nunavik communities.

“Engaging youth in literacy activities makes a real difference in terms of retaining knowledge during the summer break,” says Etua Snowball, Director of Education Services at Kativik Ilisarni‐ liriniq. The literacy camps strengthen community bonds and encourage a shared culture of literacy and learning that benefits everyone. Children between the ages of five and 12 also get the opportunity to keep building on the Inuktitut, English, and French reading skills they acquired during the school year.

Last year, when the COVID‐19 pandemic hit, Frontier College’s genuine commitment to developing local expertise paid off. In a regular year, 50 per cent of Frontier College literacy workers are hired locally. Thus, the organization was able to turn around quickly, mobilize its local human resources and offer literacy activities in seven communities. A total of eight literacy workers were hired (six returning from previous summers and two new staff). They participated in regional training where they learned about

or revisited the importance of reading through summer months, how to integrate literacy in regular community activities, how to offer literacy activities online, risk and safety management in COVID‐19 times, and many more topics that allowed them to deliver impactful activities in their communities.

This year, the goal is to return to offering summer literacy activities in 12 communities.

Their format will differ slightly from previous years, due to COVID‐19 public health measures.

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In Puvirnituq, a Literacy Camp participant practices her syllabics writing skills.

With the support of Literacy Workers, elders, parents, and community members, over 500 children will expand their vocabulary and increase their love of reading through story‐ telling, group reading, arts and crafts, writing, and more. To deliver these activities, more that 200 books will be sent to each community to encourage summer reading amongst children.

In each participating community, Frontier College aims at hiring two to four local literacy workers. To help design the most impactful activities for children and their families, these workers will be trained and supported remotely by the Frontier College team. They will also stay in touch with each other to share ideas, building on each other's successes throughout the summer.

“Initiatives such as the summer literacy camps are essential to student success. They complement other programs we offer in partnership with Frontier College during the school year, such as the Math Tutor Program which has focused on support for secondary students for the past four years,” says Etua Snowball.

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often, too. The kids had nothing for so long. It was a really good idea, giving them something that they could do safely at home.”

In light of the disruptions caused by COVID‐19, summer literacy activities are more needed than ever in Nunavik. By mobilizing partners, community members and families around the common goal of promoting literacy amongst Nunavik youth this summer, we continue to

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mitigate the impact of the pandemic while helping them to become confident readers who will become successful life‐long learners.

Mélanie Valcin is the Regional Director for Quebec, Nunavut, and Atlantic Canada at Frontier College.

Jade Duchesneau Bernier is the Communications Coordinator at Kativik Ilisarniliriniq.

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Proposed boundaries by the Spence Bay Hunters and Trappers Association for Aviqtuuq Inuit Protected and Conserved Area. © Spence Bay Hunters and Trappers Association

Niqihaqut

Harvesting country foods

By Jimmy Oleekatalik In Taloyoak, we've always been going on the land. We are not farmers, that’s where our food comes from. As soon as it starts to warm up, we go out fishing and hunting. In the past 50 years, we’ve gone from dog teams to iPhones. It’s a big drastic change. But the environment is changing, too, and affecting our food security. Now, after being awarded $451,000 from the Arctic Inspiration Prize, we have funding for our plan to change it back.

Our community is located right in the migratory route of the Ahiak caribou herd who come every summer to their calving ground in Aviqtuuq (Boothia Peninsula). But it is not only caribou — many species have offspring up here: seals, muskox, birds, and plenty of fish.

Yet despite our abundant wildlife — and our rich history and traditions based on hunting and gathering — many residents of Taloyoak cannot access country food, only expensive store food flown in from the south.

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Taloyoak. I’m the manager of the Spence Bay Hunter and Trapper Association and every day we talk about how much it costs. Climate change is also threatening our hunters’ safety as the land, lakes, and ice become more dangerous to travel on, and the wildlife harder to find.

But country foods are the healthiest for us — caribou, fish, seal. We simply catch and eat it fresh, and it has no additives in it. It is the reason why we are here. It’s a big deal here, not only for Elders but for youth too.

For many years now it's been talked about getting back to the basics of livelihood and diet.

So, to keep our tradition alive we came up with

Niqihaqut, which means “our food” in Inuktitut.

But how were we going to start it? Where were we going to get the funds? The Arctic Inspiration Prize was mentioned, so we went for it with high hopes.

Niqihaqut fits with our beliefs and our needs as an Inuit community, and they agreed. We’re still dreaming, we can’t believe we won! Maybe it’s because it is an inspirational project for all?

It is simply people helping people.

Our community’s priority is to adapt to climate change by developing new ways to improve country food access for all, especially low‐income families, while supporting our

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Lake Trout Soup lovingly cooked on a trip in Aviqtuuq. © Wendy Alookee

hunters. We also must monitor the land and the environment so that the wildlife is in good health. Niqihaqut will create a country food‐ based economy based on a sustainable and respectful harvest and a modern cut‐and‐wrap facility to prepare and distribute this food throughout Taloyoak.

It will improve our people’s health and well‐ being and will also help lay the groundwork for our proposed Aviqtuuq Inuit Protected and Conserved Area, which would cover nearly 90,000 square kilometres of ocean, freshwater,

Niqihaqut team member and youth representative Tad Tulurialik along with Laisa Jayko on a caribou hunting trip in Aviqtuuq. © Guillaume Laliberté/ArctiConnexion

rivers, and land — and put Inuit in charge of managing it.

This is needed because warming tempera‐ tures are not the only threat from climate change. The loss of ice in the nearby Northwest Passage will also bring shipping traffic and the dangers of vessels striking whales or, even worse, High Arctic oil spills that we are not equipped to clean up.

The peninsula is also coveted by the mining industry who have exploration claims over our land, and we are very concerned about what

Elders in Taloyoak discuss the Niqihaqut and Aviqtuuq projects. © Jimmy Oleekatalik

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this could bring to our future, to our food. We're trying to protect Aviqtuuq from industrial development, which could devastate the caribou population, but we need an alternative income.

These projects will feed more families, create jobs, and reduce poverty in the community while keeping our culture and traditions alive for generations to come. Growing up here is very beautiful, it's our home, and it is common sense to protect it and our way of life.

Lake Trout freshly caught in Jekyll Lake, north of Taloyoak. © Guillaume Laliberté/ArctiConnexion

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A jaunt around

Old Town Text and photos by Doris Ohlmann If you’re deciding to embark on a Staycation this summer, consider the eclectic places of interest in Old Town, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Bullock’s Bistro is a popular eatery for all things fish, like fish tacos, whitefish, trout, and a lot more like deep fried moose donuts, Bullocks Bistro homemade salad dressing and fish sauce! Bullock’s Bistro was a participant in this year’s Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce’s “Be a Tourist in Your Own Town” promotion, in partnership with the City of Yellowknife, Government of the Northwest Territories - Industry, Tourism and Investment, and Northwest Territories Tourism.

First prize was a two-night stay for two people at Blachford Lake Lodge. Winner: Kerrissa Maclean. Second prize was a four-hour Pike Fishing Trip for four people with Yellowknife Outdoor Adventures.

Winner: Renske Ball. The Eat & Relax third prize package was won

by Anita Akuluklyc and included a $200 gift certificate for Etandah Organic Day Spa, a $200 gift certificate from Bullocks Bistro and a bottle of their famous salad dressing, and two Northern books from the Yellowknife Book Cellar. The fourth Prize package donated by Northwest Territories Tourism was won by Erin Suliak.

Boats and sometimes float planes are a common sight during the summer months on the shores of Great Slave Lake in historic Old Town, Yellowknife.

Yellowknife’s historic Wildcat Cafe has been a fixture in Old Town since 1937 and is the oldest restaurant in the territory. The popular eatery is usually open in the summer months.

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Top left: After 18 years, Yellowknife’s Just Furs shut its doors, and moved online in 2021.

Top middle: Old Town sign.

Top right: An artist decides to beautify the surroundings of Old Town with a paint brush on an unusual canvas.

Left: The Down to Earth Gallery displays art from about 130 Northern artists.

Bottom left: Wanting to take a break from your leisurely stroll around Old Town, this colourful bench will do the trick.

Bottom middle: This signpost seen at the Gallery of the Midnight Sun, refers to a landmark road in Yellowknife. Named by prospectors who had gone broke (ragged ass), the road has been described as one of the most famous streets in Canada and has been immortalized in a song and album by Tom Cochrane.

Bottom right: The creativity in Old Town is even seen on the large trash bins.

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Arctic Trivia Quiz

TEXT AND PHOTOS BY ALAN G. LUKE

The distribution of place names is indicative of the extent of land use across the expanse of the Inuit territory. Despite the changes they have experienced over the past decades, Inuit continually associate the “Land” with a reliance on subsistence hunting. In addition, the place names of their ancestors provide information and assistance to travellers on their journeys. Quiz yourself on the following place name questions.

3. Arviat, Nunavut, is an Inuit hamlet on the western shore of Hudson Bay. Its name is derived from the Inuktitut word “arviq” meaning what? a) b) c) d)

“Snow Goose” “Bowhead Whale” “Loose Moose” “Goat’s Head Soup”

4. What community in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut translates into “heel,” referring to a rocky outcrop in the inlet? a) b) c) d)

Kimmirut Kinngait Kugluktuk Kugaaruk

8. What is the name of the National Park located on northwest Bathurst Island, Nunavut, and was established as Canada’s 45th National Park? Its name translates into: “place where the sun does not rise”. a) b) c) d)

9. Sirmilik National Park in Nunavut is situated within the Arctic Cordillera and was established in 1999. What does Sirmilik mean in the Inuktitut language?

Inuvik, NWT

1. In Inuktitut, which Canadian territory translates into “Our Land”? a) b) c) d)

Nunavik Yukon Northwest Territory Nunavut

2. What is the English translation of the NWT town of Inuvik, formerly a fur trading and whaling centre? a) b) c) d)

“the place of man” “the place of narwhals” “the place of whale bones” “the place of furry critters”

5. Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, formerly known as Port Brabant, lies north of the Arctic Circle and its name means what? a) b) c) d)

a) b) c) d)

“the place of the mountains” “the place of moose” “the place of glaciers” “the place of wildlife”

“place where roe grow” “resembling a caribou” “looks like a duck” “dances with wolves”

6. What Inuit hamlet’s name located in Foxe Basin, Nunavut, translates into “there is a house here”? a) b) c) d)

5. b) “Resembling a Caribou” 10. d) Eskimo Museum 9. c) “Place of Glaciers”

4. a} Kimmirut

8. a) Qausuittuq

3. b) “Bowhead Whale”

7. b) “birthplace”

2. a) “Place of Man”

6. d) Igloolik

1. 1. d) Nunavut ANSWERS:

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Qausuittuq Aulavik Nahanni Ummagumma

Iqaluit Inuvik Inertia Igloolik

7. Ivvavik National Park (Yukon) became the first national park to be created from an aboriginal land claim settlement. What is the English translation of its name?

10.The Itsanitaq Museum sign on the exterior of the Inuit Museum in Churchill, Manitoba was formerly named what prior to 2016?

a) b) c) d)

a) b) c) d)

“new land” “birthplace” “homeland” “settlement”

Canadian Arctic Museum Hudson Bay Cultural Museum Northern History & Culture Museum Eskimo Museum

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Kits, Cubs, and Calves An Arctic Summer Written by Suzie Napayok‐Short | Illustrated by Tamara Campeau Inhabit Media September 2020 Akuluk is visiting her family in Nunavut and can’t wait to get out on her uncle’s boat for a ride into the powerful Arctic Ocean. Surrounded by her family, and with her trusty toy polar bear beside her, Akuluk experiences the beautiful sights, sounds, and animals that abound in the ocean and along the shore during the short Arctic summer—from a mother polar bear and her cubs to a family of belugas and tiny Arctic fox kits. As they encounter each animal, Akuluk’s aunt and uncles share with her how each species cares for its young and how they protect their babies from the other animals who share their ecosystem.

Flying to Extremes: Memories of a Northern Bush Pilot

Gather Richard Van Camp on Storytelling

Dominique Prinet Hancock House Publishers March 2021

Richard Van Camp University of Regina Press May 2021

In January 1965, 25‐year‐old Parisian pilot Dominique Prinet arrives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with just $200 in his pocket, no return ticket, and knowing absolutely no one. Soon after, Prinet finds himself flying bush planes in the Canadian Arctic from a base at Yellowknife, in the heart of the Northwest Territories. Prinet weaves breath‐ taking reflections of life in the High Arctic, describing thrilling adventures in trying weather conditions and Arctic winter nights with no daylight for weeks. Prinet lands on sandbars, rivers, lakes, and the tundra – ferrying First Nations peoples, trappers, prospectors, miners, adventurer tourists, gold‐ingot thieves and performing medevacs. Available from your local bookstore, on Amazon.ca or direct from Hancock House at: https://www.hancockhouse.com/products/flying­to­extremes

Gathering around together, humans have always told stories. Through them, we define our identities and shape our understanding of the world.

Master storyteller and best‐ selling author Richard Van Camp writes of the power of storytelling and its potential to transform speakers and audiences alike. In Gather, Van Camp shares what elements make a compelling story and offers insights into basic storytelling techniques, such as how to read a room and how to capture the at‐ tention of listeners. He delves further into the impact storytelling can have, helping readers understand how to create community and how to banish loneliness through their tales. Van Camp also includes stories from Elders, friends and family.

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Ending the cycle of violence against Inuit women and girls On June 3, the second anniversary of the release of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) Final Report including the 231 Calls for Justice, Inuit released an Inuit Action Plan for implementing the 46 Inuit‐specific Calls to Justice.

The Inuit Action Plan sets out the steps that must be taken by governments and Inuit representative organ‐ izations to end violence against Inuit women, girls and Two‐Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Questioning, Intersex and Asexual (2SLGBTQQIA+) people.

The Inuit Action Plan is a chapter within a National Action Plan, an overarching framework for implementing the 231 Calls to Justice. The overarching document was developed by Inuit and other Indigenous representative bodies, as well as federal, provincial, and territorial governments. It has many cross‐cutting goals, including to address the root causes of violence, and support transformational change in attitudes, behaviour, and knowledge across society and its laws, policies, and systems.

ITK and Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, together with Inuit Land Claims organizations and community‐based organizations, worked together as part of a 10‐member Inuit Working Group to outline the Inuit‐specific document’s 187 actions across 14 thematic areas. Those actions instruct governments, Inuit Land Claims Organizations, and other represented bodies on the National Inuit Working Group on the steps ahead.

The Inuit‐Crown Partnership Committee (ICPC) will monitor imple‐ mentation of federal‐led actions as well as certain Inuit‐led actions, including by developing implementation timelines. Members will report annually on implementation status to the ICPC as well as the public. Implementation of provincial/territorial‐led actions may require Inuit Land Claims Organ‐ izations to broker the establishment of new bilateral mechanisms with governments.

Historical and continuing systemic discrimination and human rights violations by governments are among the factors that contribute to the high prevalence of violence experienced by many Inuit women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. Other factors include social and economic inequities between Inuit and most other Canadians, such as overcrowding and lack of housing, limited access to public services, and poverty.

Gender violence is often linked to intergenerational trauma caused by the harmful and enduring impacts of colonial policies on our culture, communities, and society. Many Inuit families and communities are disproportionately impacted by traumatic experiences yet lack access to the tools and resources needed to support healing and healthy relation‐ ships, such as treatment for substance use and mental health service delivery systems.

Shelters & Housing Family Violence

Infrastructure

Men & Boys

Education

Economic Security

Urban

Data & Research

Health & Wellness

Inuktut

Justice & Policing

Governance

Children & Youth Anti-Racism & Reconciliation

The Inuit Action Plan sets out 187 actions across 14 thematic areas. © ITK

The families of missing and murdered Inuit, the survivors, the leader‐ ship of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, and the voices of Inuit women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people are all key to the successful implementation of the National Inuit Action Plan to end gendered violence against Inuit.

Preventing violence against Inuit women and girls also requires Inuit representative organizations and governments to exercise our right to self‐determination in new ways, including by leading initiatives that have historically been led by governments.

The National Inuit Action Plan respects differences between Inuit Land Claims Organizations and their governance structures, as well as their institutions or service agencies. These differences will influence how organizations including Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, Makivik Corporation and the Nunatsiavut Government prioritize and approach implementation.

We know that solutions exist that can help break cycles of violence and both complement and build on existing Inuit‐led programs, inter‐ ventions, and initiatives that support healthy families and communities.

Improving the overall quality of life for Inuit women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people can be achieved through the sustained and genuine collaborative action between all governments and Inuit.

This is a difficult subject for many people. To talk with a counsellor at any time, call the Hope for Wellness Helpline at 1­855­242­3310.

Natan Obed President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

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