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Making mental health a priority

Photos ᐋᓐᓄᕌᑦᑎᐊᖅᓯᒪᓛᖅ ᖃᒪᓂ’ᑐᐊᕐᒥ Traditional clothing contest in Baker Lake Opinion ᐃᓐᓇᑐᖃᐃᑦ ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᖅ ᑲᒪᒋᔭᐅᑦᑎᐊᓱᐃᑦᑐᑦ A terrible time to be a senior

ᑎᐊᓇ ᒍᐊᑕᓐ, ᓴᐅᒥᖅᖠᕐᒦᑦᑐᖅ, ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᔪᖅ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᐃᖃᑕᐅᔪᓂᒃ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᑕᑯᑎᑖᕆᑉᓗᑎᒃ ᐊᒥᒐᓗᐊᕐᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᓕᕆᔩᑦ ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥ ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᑉᓗᑎᒃ ᓄᓇᕗᓗᒃᑖᒥ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᐃᔪᓂᒃ ᑕᓪᓕᒻᒥᕐᒥ, ᔫᓐ 26-ᒥ.

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Tiana Gordon, from left, joins fellow protesters Pamela Pilakapsi, Sakitnaak Brown, Amanda Tugak, Martha Palluq and Lucy Maynard displaying their signs protesting the state of mental health services available in Rankin Inlet as part of a territory-wide protest on Friday, June 26, 2020.

ᑐᓵᓚᐅᕆᑦᑎ ᓂᐱᑉᑎᓐᓂᒃ! ᓄᓇᕗᓗᒃᑖᒥ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᐃᔪᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᐱᐅᓯᕚᓪᓕᖅᑎᑦᑎᖁᔨᔪᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᓕᕆᓂᐅᑉ ᒥᒃᓵᓄᑦ ᖁᖁᐊᕈᑏᑦ ᖁᖁᐊᑲᑕᓕᓚᐅᖅᑐᑦ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᐃᔪᑦ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᐃᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᓕᕆᔨᑖᕆᐊᖃᒃᑲᓐᓂᕐᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥᓕ ᓯᑕᒪᓄᑦ ᓄᖅᑲᖅᑕᕐᕕᖕᒥ ᑲᑎᓚᐅᖅᑐᑦ ᑕᓪᓕᒻᒥᕐᒥᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ, ᔪᓐ 26-ᒥ. ᑎᐊᓇ ᒍᐊᑕᓐ ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥᐅᑕᖅ ᐱᒋᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᐃᓅᓯᕐᒥᓂᒃ ᓇᑲᑦᑎᖃᑦᑕᖁᔨᙱᓐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᐃᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥ ᔫᓐ 19-ᒥ. ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᐃᓂᖓ ᐱᔫᒥᒍᓱᓕᖅᑎᑦᑎᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᐊᓚᓇ ᒍᐊᑕᓐᒥᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᔪ ᐃᓚᓐ – ᐸᒥᐅᓕᖕᒥᒃ – ᑕᒪᕐᒥᒃ ᐊᕐᕕᐊᕐᒥᐅᑖᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᒫᓐᓇᐅᔪᖅ ᐃᖃᓗᖕᒥᐅᑖᒃ – ᐸᕐᓇᐃᑉᓗᑎᒃ ᓄᓇᕗᓗᒃᑖᒥ ᐱᑦᑎᐊᕐᓂᒃᑯᑦ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᐃᔪᒪᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᑕᓪᓕᒻᒥᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ. ᒍᐊᑕᓐ, 23-ᓂᒃ ᐅᑭᐅᓕᒃ, ᐅᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᑕᐃᒪᑐᕉᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᒥ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᐃᔪᑦ ᐅᔾᔨᕆᔭᐅᓂᐊᓕᑕᐃᓐᓇᖅᐳᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᔫᒥᓵᕐᓗᒋᑦ ᒪᓕᒐᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᑦ, ᐊᒥᓲᔪᑦ ᓂᕈᐊᖅᑕᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᕈᒪᔪᒫᕐᒪᑕ, ᒫᓐᓇᑲᐅᑎᒋ ᐱᓕᕆᒋᐊᖁᓗᒋᑦ ᐃᓚᕚᓪᓕᖅᑎᑦᑎᓂᒃᑯᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᓕᕆᔨᓂᒃ ᓄᓇᕗᒥ. ᐅᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᐃᓚᖏᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᓅᓯᕐᒥᓂᒃ ᑭᐱᓯᖃᑦᑕᕐᒪᑕ ᑕᒪᐃᓐᓂᒃ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂᒃ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓇᓗᓇᙱᑦᑑᔭᖅᑐᕉᖅ ᐱᕕᒃᓴᕆᔭᖅᐳᑦ ᓇᐃᑦᑑᓕᕐᒪᑦ ᐃᓚᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᐃᑲᔪᕋᓱᖕᓂᐊᕐᓗᑕ ᐃᓄᖕᓂᒃ ᐊᒃᓱᕈᕐᓇᖅᑐᒃᑰᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᐃᓱᒪᒃᑯᑦ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕈᑎᖃᖅᑐᓄᑦ, ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑕᐅᔪᓐᓇᐃᓪᓕᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ. "ᓈᒻᒪᙱᒻᒪᑦ ᐃᓄᒃ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑕᐅᔪᒪᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᐃᓱᒪᒃᑯᑦ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᐅᖃᐅᑎᔭᐅᑐᐃᓐᓇᕌᖓᑕ ᖃᑯᒍᒃᑲᓐᓂᖅ ᐅᑎᖁᔭᐅᑉᓗᑎᒃ ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᖃᐅᒃᐸᒧᑦ ᐅᑕᖅᑭᖁᔭᐅᑉᓗᑎᒃ," ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᐅᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᒍᐊᑕᓐ.

"ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᒃᓱᕈᕐᓇᖅᑐᒃᑰᖅᑐᑦ ᐅᓐᓄᐊᖑᔪᒃᑯᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑕᐅᔪᒪᖃᑦᑕᕐᒪᑕ ᒫᓐᓇᑲᐅᑎᒋ ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑎᒃᓴᖃᖃᑦᑕᙱᖦᖢᑎᒡᓗ. "ᖃᐅᒃᐸᒧᑦ ᐅᑕᖅᑭᔪᑦ ᑭᖑᕙᑐᐃᓐᓇᕆᐊᓖᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᕐᓂᐊᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᐃᓅᖃᑎᒥᓂᒃ. ᐊᒥᓲᓗᐊᓕᖅᑐᑦ ᓄᓇᑉᑎᓐᓂᒃ." ᒍᐊᑕᓐ ᐅᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥ ᐃᓱᒪᓕᕆᔨᑕᖃᖅᑑᒐᓗᐊᖅ, ᐱᓕᕆᕝᕕᒃᑖᑦᑎᐊᕆᐊᓕᒃ ᓄᓇᓕᐅᑉ ᐃᓗᐊᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᔨᖏᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᕆᐊᖅᑎᑐᐃᓐᓇᐅᓗᑎᒃ ᖃᓄᒃᑲᓐᓂᖅ ᐃᑲᔪᕆᐊᖅᑎᒃᓴᑦ ᐊᑐᐃᓐᓇᐅᖃᑦᑕᕐᓗᑎᒃ. ᐅᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᑕᒪᕐᒥᒃ ᓄᓇᓖᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒥ ᐃᓱᒪᓕᕆᔨᑖᑦᑎᐊᕆᐊᖃᖅᑐᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᑕᐃᒪᑐᕉᖅ ᑕᒪᓐᓇ ᓄᓇᕗᓗᒃᑖᒥ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᕈᑕᐅᔪᖅ ᐱᔫᒥᓵᕈᑕᐅᓂᐊᖅᐳᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᖏᓐᓄᑐᐃᓐᓇᐅᙱᑦᑐᖅ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂᓕ ᒐᕙᒪᑐᖃᒃᑯᓐᓄᑦᑕᐅᖅ. "ᖃᓄᐃᓕᒋᐊᕆᐊᖃᓚᐅᕋᒪ ᒫᓐᓇᓵᖑᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᑭᕙᓪᓕᕐᒥ ᐃᓅᓯᕐᒥᓂᒃ ᑭᐱᓯᔪᖃᓚᐅᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ," ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᐅᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᒍᐊᑕᓐ. "ᐃᓅᓯᕐᒥᓂᒃ ᑭᐱᓯᓲᑦ ᐊᒃᑐᖅᓯᓲᑦ ᑕᒪᐃᓐᓂᒃ ᐃᓄᖕᓂᒃ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᓄᐃᓕᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᕆᐊᖃᓕᖅᑐᒍᑦ ᐃᓅᓯᕐᒥᓂᒃ ᑭᒋᓯᖃᑦᑕᖁᔪᓐᓃᖁᑉᓗᒋᑦ. ᓴᐱᓕᑐᐃᓐᓇᕆᐊᖃᙱᑦᑐᒍᑦ. "ᑮᓇᐅᔭᓂᒃ ᐊᒥᓱᓂᒃ ᐊᑐᓕᖅᑐᑦ ᓄᕙᒡᔪᐊᕐᓂᐅᑉ ᒥᒃᓴᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ, ᐃᓅᓯᕐᒥᓂᒃ ᑭᐱᓯᓲᑦ ᐊᒥᓲᓂᖅᐹᖑᑉᓗᑎᒃ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ, ᓄᓇᕗᒥ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᔭᕆᐊᖃᓕᖅᑐᑦ ᐅᔾᔨᖅᑐᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᑎᒍᑦ ᐃᑲᔪᕆᐊᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᐃᓱᒪᓕᕆᔩᑦ ᐊᒥᒐᓕᕐᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ. "ᖃᓄᑭᐊᖅ ᐱᕈᖅᓯᒪᒐᑉᑕ ᐃᓅᓯᕐᒥᓂᒃ ᑭᐱᓯᓲᑦ ᓱᖏᐅᑎᒥᐊᖅᑑᔭᖅᖢᒋᑦ ᓄᓇᑉᑎᓐᓂᒃ, ᓲᕐᓗ ᓈᒻᒪᒋᔭᖅᑎᑐᑦ ᐃᓅᓯᒃᑯᑦ ᑕᒫᓂ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑕᐃᒪᐃᑦᑕᕆᐊᖃᕈᓐᓃᖅᑐᒍᑦ."

"The next day could be a day too late for some of these people."

– Protester Tiana Gordon of Rankin Inlet on the lack of mental health services across Nunavut, page 3.

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Territory-wide protest calls on GN for much improved mental-health services

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Rankin Inlet

Horns blared in support of those out protesting the lack of mental-health services available in their community

at the main four-way stop in downtown Rankin Inlet this past Friday, June 26.

Tiana Gordon of Rankin Inlet got the ball rolling when she held a suicide-awareness demonstration in Rankin on

ᑎᐊᓇ ᒍᐊᑕᓐ ᑎᒍᒥᐊᖅᑐᖅ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᔪᒥᒃ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑐᐃᑉᓗᓂ ᐃᓱᒪᓕᕆᔩᑦ ᐊᒥᒐᓗᐊᕐᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᕐᒥ ᓄᓇᕗᓗᒃᑖᒥ ᐊᔭᐅᖅᑑᑕᐅᔪᒥᒃ ᐃᓚᐅᖃᑕᐅᓂᖃᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᑕᓪᓕᒻᒥᕐᒥ, ᔫᓐ 26-ᒥ.

New program to start Rankin Inlet There are only two days left to apply for a one-week course being run by Ilitaqsiniq – Nunavut Literacy Council – for youth in Rankin Inlet aged 14 to 19 who would like to go fishing and learn how to make pipsi and smoke fish.

The course runs from July 6 to 10 and limited space is available.

Anyone interested is asked to email Kelly Lindell at kellylindell@nunavutliteracy.ca or call (431) 336-0116 for an application form. Deadline is this Friday, July 3.

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Trichinella alert Rankin Inlet The Department of Health is advising residents of Rankin Inlet that a walrus tongue has tested positive for trichinella, a parasite that causes worm disease.

Anyone who has eaten any uncooked walrus recently and has experienced stomach pain, muscle pain, diarrhea, swollen eyelids, sweating and weakness may be infected with trichinella.

People visiting the health centre with any of these symptoms should immediately let their health-care provider know if they ate uncooked walrus.

The department advises that testing your walrus will prevent anyone from getting trichinella.

It also advises anyone who is receiving walrus caught by somebody else to ask if it has been tested before eating.

Freezing or fermenting meat will not kill trichinella.

It can only be killed by cooking. If you have questions or want to learn more, contact environmental health officer Gary Nelson at 645-6660.

Learn To... events starting in summer Rankin Inlet The Government of Nunavut (GN) is inviting everyone who wants to learn something new to join instructors at the weekly Learn To... events offered this summer at the Iqalugaarjuup Kuunga Park in Rankin Inlet.

Different activities are planned every Tuesday and Thursday, from 1:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. local time, until Aug. 25. This summer, participants can learn about traditional Inuit stories, learn how to make a kakivak, learn about traditional plant use and much more.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions and social distancing guidelines, groups will be limited to 10 people per event. All events will take place outdoors and will be held on a reservations-only basis. To register for an activity, please call 645-8013.

For a complete schedule of events, please visit https://www.gov.nu.ca/environment.

Please note: if weather is bad, events will be cancelled.

Student financial assistance deadline nears Kivalliq Kivalliq students who are planning on attending college or university this coming fall are reminded that the deadline to apply for Financial Assistance for Nunavut Students (FANS) is July 15.

FANS provides financial help to eligible Nunavummiut attending designated post-secondary institutions and academic programs.

Applications can be made to FANS before being accepted to a college or university.

To start the application process or to find out more, visit the Department of Education website at www.gov. nu.ca/fans. You can also contact the FANS office by email at fans@gov.nu.ca.

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Tiana Gordon holds a sign protesting the lack of mental-health services available in Rankin Inlet as part of a territory-wide protest on Friday, June 26.

June 19.

Her Rankin demonstration inspired Alanna Copland and Jo Ellen Pameolik – both from Arviat and now living in Iqaluit – to organize the Nunavut-wide peaceful protest last Friday.

Gordon, 23, said she hopes the Nunavut-wide protest will finally get the attention of the Government of Nunavut and inspire its politicians, many of whom will seek re-election, to take immediate action to increase mental health services available in the territory.

She said people continue to fall victim to suicide in every community and she has no doubt that time is probably running out for others who are struggling with mental health issues and can't get the help they need.

"It's ridiculous when someone who is struggling has a mental health crisis and they're told to come back or wait until the next day," said Gordon.

"People who are having a crisis late at night are reaching out for immediate help and it's just not there. The next day could be a day too late for some of these people.

"It already has been for too

many in our communities."

Gordon said while Rankin does have some mental health services, it needs a building in the community dedicated to mental health with more workers making more services available.

She said every community in Nunavut should have proper mental health services available and she hopes the territory-wide protest attracts not only the GN's attention, but that of the Government of Canada, as well.

"I just had to do something after the recent suicides in our region," said Gordon.

"Suicide has been affecting everyone in our communities and we have to start doing more to prevent it. We can't just give up.

"All this money has been spent on this pandemic and, having the highest suicide rate in Canada, it's time they (the GN) dedicate the same attention and financial resources to our lack of mental health services.

"Somehow we grew up and normalized suicide in our communities, almost like an accepted way of life here and that has to stop and it has to stop now."

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Bad time to be a senior Northern News Services

Where did we go wrong?

Not all that long ago, we were taught to look up to our Elders and our senior citizens were respected for their knowledge, experience and all they had contributed to society during their lives.

Today, more often than not, seniors are viewed as little more than a bother and there are actually people out there applauding Covid-19 for helping to decrease the surplus population.

An article I had read about a month-and-a-half ago by columnist Gerry Bowler had the hair on my arm standing up in a way it only does when I fear the worst is yet to come.

We here in Canada were shocked and outraged by the Covid-19 related deaths of so many seniors in care homes during this pandemic, Sanikiluaq but should we have been? Or, were we really?

Have we been willingly blind to the levels of respect totally bottoming out for baby boomers (of which yours truly is one) who, by those who came after, are blamed for almost every ill in Canadian society, including ruining the environment, screwing up the economy and generally hogging the best of everything just for themselves during the past 55 to 75 years.

Today, society is more concerned with the images on cereal boxes and pancake mixes – cosmetics

tors refused to go into care homes giant L'Oreal even announced this and denied their seniors hospital past week that it's removing the words whitening and lightening (Ser- admittance.

So how is the world reacting to iously? Lightening?) from their prodthis gross negligence in caring for uct line – to worry about those in our elderly? their not-so-golden-anymore years.

A number of Americans are And, with statues and name excited by the elderly plaques representing deaths due to the fact everyone from Christothe majority of seniors in pher Columbus, to George that country tend to vote Washington, Robert E. Republican, hence the Lee, John A Macdonald, deaths among the ranks Winston Churchill and of seniors lessen the Woodrow Wilson being chances of Donald Trump vandalized now on an being re-elected. almost daily basis, no Still others look at the Elder in our historical past Darrell seniors' deaths as being is safe, let alone those still Greer poetic justice, in that drawing breath in today's Earth is getting its revenge world-gone-mad era. for today's Elders having ravaged And this is in no way, shape or the planet's resources and whistled form restricted to Canada and the while they did it.

United States.

And, here in Nunavut, Elder abuse Just how far Elders' stock has fallen in the world today can also be has been a growing concern for a number of years now. evidenced by actions taken abroad There are many in today's world during the pandemic. who view all this as proof positive The shortage of medical equipthat today's youth look upon their ment necessary to treat suffering Elders with increasing hostility.

Covid-19 patients in Italian hospiWhether that's entirely true or tals resulted in some patients 60 years of age or older not being fully not, the animosity created between the generations by today's tensions treated, which led to the needless will almost surely impact decisions death of many a pensioner in that made by policy makers for years to country. come.

Meanwhile, in England and And, like it or not, these, apparWales, it's been reported that a number of care homes issued blan- ently, are among the worst times in history to be a member of the aging ket do-not-resuscitate orders for their Elderly clients, while some doc- population.

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There's patriotic spirit everywhere when Jaydeen Pilakapsi, left, Lillian Pilakapsi and Tyler Angidlik get together during the Canada Day festivities at Rankin Inlet on July 1, 2019.

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Looking for patterns in ecosystem Kivalliq Wildlife Board secures $600,000 research grant

by Darrell Greer

Northern News Services

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There will be plenty of activity later this summer revolving around ecosystem research thanks to a $600,000 grant for community-based research obtained by the Kivalliq Wildlife Board (KWB).

KWB research co-ordinator Clayton Tartak said the KWB put in an application for funds to conduct base research in the Rankin Inlet area.

Tartak said the research will mostly be used to help build local capacity for monitoring climate, wildlife and people in Rankin Inlet.

He said the research will look at linkages between climate, development, the environment and caribou on one end of the project and also provide baseline information for the marine ecosystem and how everything in the marine ecosystem interacts.

"We'll have local researchers going out on the land to collect samples of vegetation later on this summer," said Tartak.

"We'll be providing funds to the Young Hunter's programs here in Rankin Inlet and in Arviat to collect samples during their program activities, so they'll be learning from scientific methodology as well as learning how to hunt from the Elders.

"We'll also be interviewing Elders later on this summer, which will help inform the study's design."

Tartak said research partners in the study are Laval University, the University of Quebec's Rimouski campus and the University of Moncton.

He said the university labs will analyze the samples and, depending on how the pandemic goes, the KWB will be sending youths to conduct some lab work with the professors there, as well.

"For the marine ecosystem, they'll be looking at stomach contents from everything from shrimp to seals and beluga – and potentially polar bears – to

see, basically, a pattern for who eats who in the marine ecosystem.

"This was all originally slated to be collaborative with the high school here in Rankin, but the pandemic forced us to make some modifications to the program.

"So we have two research assistants, who are being hired locally and we'll be funding portions of the Young Hunter's program and creating jobs for guides with that."

Tartak said this is a three-year program starting this summer and running until 2022.

He said the KWB is hoping it becomes the norm for the Hunters and Trappers Organizations and the regional wildlife boards to do projects like this.

"That would give us the opportunity to watch for changes in diet and trace it back to climate or development problems that may come up.

"The funders for this project are the Government of Canada through the Indigenous Community-Based Climate Monitoring program and Indigenous Services Canada through the Climate Change and Health Adaptation program.

"It's really important to have youth involved in research projects. I think it's important that we start letting our youth know they could become researchers and, if we do get a chance to collaborate with the high school, depending on how the pandemic goes, we'll have a really wide web that we'll be reaching out to.

"I'd also like to thank some of our program partners: regional biologist Mitch Campbell in Arviat; the Aqqiumavvik Society's Young Hunter's program in Arviat, who will be key in us being able to do some of the work; the Young Hunter's program in Rankin Inlet; Kangiqliniq Hunters and Trappers Organization; and ARTIConnexion, who have run similar programs throughout Nunavut and who we've partnered with to provide mentorship."

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Tyrese Sammurtok, left, and Natuk Innukshuk are all smiles after taking down a caribou while participating in the Rankin Inlet Young Hunter's program.

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Dressed in style ᑕᑯᔭᒃᓴᐃᑦ

Indigenous Day Feature

Northern News Services

Folks in Baker Lake held a traditional dress contest to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 in Baker Lake.

The contest saw a combined total of $550 paid in prizes to the top dressers in a children's category and an adults' category.

ᐳᕐᔨᑦ ᑐᖑᐊᖅ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᖅᑐᖅ $100-ᒥᒃ ᓄᑕᖅᑲᒥᑦ ᐊᓐᓄᕌᑦᑎᐊᖅᓯᒪᓛᑦ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᕋᓱᒃᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᖁᕕᐊᓲᑎᖃᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᐅᑉᓗᖓᓂᒃ ᔫᓐ 21-ᒥ ᖃᒪᓂ’ᑐᐊᕐᒥ.

ᐊᖑᑎᑐᐊᖑᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᐃᓐᓇᕐᓂᒃ ᐊᓐᓄᕌᑦᑎᐊᖅᓯᒪᓛᖑᓇᓱᒃᑐᓂᒃ, ᒪᐃᑯ Hᐊᖅᐱ, ᐱᖓᔪᒋᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᐊᓐᓄᕌᑦᑎᐊᖅᓯᒪᓛᖑᓇᓱᒃᑐᓂᒃ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑎᖃᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᐅᑉᓗᖓᓂᒃ ᔫᓐ 21-ᒥ ᖃᒪᓂ’ᑐᐊᕐᒥ.

by Jimmy Misheralak Baker Lake

ᑲᐃᓖᓐ ᓇᑦᓯᖅ ᑕᑯᔪᒥᓇᖅᓯᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᐱᖓᔪᒋᔭᐅᑉᓗᓂ ᓄ ᑕ ᖅ ᑲ ᑦ ᐱᒡᒍᓴᐅᔾᔪᐊᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ.

Kyleen Netser looked sharp in claiming third place in the kids' category.

Bergit Tunguaq took top spot and the $100 prize in the kids category of the traditional dress contest, as people celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 in Baker Lake.

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The only male to compete in the adult category, Micheal Haqpi, took third place in the traditional dress contest as people celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 in Baker Lake.

ᑲᕐᓘᔅ ᑕᐃᐸᓈᖅ ᑐᒡᓕᕆᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᓄ ᑕ ᖅ ᑲ ᑦ ᐱᒡᒍᓴᐅᔾᔪᐊᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ.

Carlos Taipana took second place in the kids' category.