Charmaine Teddy

Charmaine Teddy

WORDS BY CYNTHIA TEDDY

Charmaine Teddy was born and raised in Tuktoyaktuk. She loves to sew and teaches those important cultural skills and other activities to her children and other family members. She learned how to sew mukluks first and then taught herself how to sew parkas and mitts. As a young person, she enjoyed spending time with her family, going to Sunday school, and hanging out with her friends. More, Charmaine’s most favourite activity to do as a kid was to go fishing at her nanuk and daduk’s smokehouse, located right at the beach by their house. Along with that, Charmaine also travelled on the land to do yearly spring hunting and fishing. She would go to her Husky Lakes cabin with my parents and around that same time, they would also go to the coast where they hunt geese.

Charmaine says she believes that being a young person means being young at heart and in your soul.

I am the youngest of my ten siblings and Charmaine is the oldest, so learning about her life growing up when she was younger makes me think of how different we grew being from different generations. In this generation, we have newer technology like phones and computers, but they did not have those back when she was a kid.

PROFILES WRITTEN BY ELA 30-2 STUDENTS AT EAST THREE SECONDARY SCHOOL