When the sun returns, Igloolik comes alive

Annual ceremony “more important than New Year”

IGLOOLIK — On a quiet, cloudy Sunday morning, elder Tipporah Qaunaq sits inside an igloo, tending two qulliqs and a camp stove.

Despite the boiling tea and the burning seal oil, the smell of naptha overpowers everything else. The temperature inside is comfortably above zero and the igloos walls...

Kuujjuaq store grows huge by providing “what people crave”

Million-dollar addition opens in midst of economic slowdown

In the midst of economic slowdown, Kuujjuaq is a great place to do business, says Eric Pearson, owner of the community’s largest store, which just invested $1 million in a new addition.

Newviq’vi, an anglicized version of the Inuttitut word “niuviqvik,” which means “place to trade” or “store,”...

Yellowknife’s haven for young Inuit

Pilot program provides familiar language, foods

YELLOWKNIFE — If you ask Leah Audlaluk what she misses most about Grise Fiord, she has a ready answer: speaking Inuktitut and hanging around with her friends.

Audlaluk, 15, moved to Yellowknife, population 19,000,  from Grise Fiord, population 160, only months ago.

Now, instead of a school of...

Quilt craze has Kangiqsujuaq in stitches

Old southern tradition a new northern sensation

SARAH ROGERS
Special to NUNATSIAQ NEWS

KANGIQSUJUAQ — A one-of-a-kind raffle prize at a recent festival in Nunavik drew oohs and ahs from the crowd.

But when Mary Pilurtuut, the mayor of Kangiqsujuaq, saw the decorative quilt up for grabs she had only one thought:” we have to bring those...

Olympic flame warms spirits in Arctic journey

“It was a really good feeling"

When Olympic torch passed through the Arctic on its way to Vancouver for next year’s Winter Games, its flame raised spirits along the way.

The torch first arrived in Nunavut Nov. 5 when an Air North jet touched down in Kugluktuk.

Colin Adjun, better known for his prowess at fiddling than as a...