Shauna Gully

Shauna Gully

WORDS BY SHALINA GULLY

My mom is Shauna Gully. When she was growing up she and all her sisters and brothers were raised on the land by my Nanuk and Daduk. At a very young age my Mom and all of her siblings were taken from the land and had to attended Residential school, she attended Residential school for six years. She doesn’t like to talk about the horrific experiences she endured while attending Residential school. After she and her sisters and brothers got out of Residential school they went whaling and continued doing all of the things they loved to do on the land. When they returned back to town for the Spring Carnival my Mom met my dad when she was eighteen and they fell in love. My dad lived in Fort Good Hope and she decided to do something life-changing. She moved to Fort Good Hope with my dad and they started a family together and got married. She lived in Fort Good Hope for 28 years before she decided she wanted a change. We now live in Tsiigehtchic just an hour away from her hometown of Inuvik.

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