Polar Regions 6

We are going to see Nan and Grandpa for Christmas! We are flying outside, I can hardly believe it! I have not seen my grandparents for three years. These are my paternal grandparents they live in Le……続きを見る

Something is wrong. It feels like I have just crawled into bed and closed my eyes after a long night of babysitting, a loud scream is piercing my ears and my brain is commanding that I pry open my h……続きを見る

Summer is gone, fading quickly into fall and falling faster into winter. School has begun once again. Older students return to schools in the big “cities” of Inuvik, Yellowknife and Fort Smith NWT. ……続きを見る

Grab her, quick, grab her, she runs fast!” I twist and turn; the fur rips on my long parkie. “NO!” I break away and run for an opening in the crowd, I sprint for the narrow escape route, someone kno……続きを見る

‘LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT AND RIGHT…girls, girls keep your eyes to the front, don’t look at your feet!’ ‘And once again, left, right, left, right and split.’ “ No, NO! “ By now the scratchy old 45-vinyl re……続きを見る

From the village of Fort Norman on the McKenzie River we are taking the junction at the Bear River on our quest to reach Fort Franklin on Great Bear Lake. It is about 100 miles (it’s the old days) b……続きを見る

Pierre Elliott Trudea is the Prime Minister of Canada. He will be doing a tour of the Arctic. The buzz around here is that he may be coming to Coppermine N.W.T., for a visit. Nothing has been confir……続きを見る

**THIS STOREY IS RATED PG NR (PERSONAL GUIDANCE, NORTHERN REALITY) THIS IS ABOUT KILLING FOR FOOD** Winter is a long drawn out affair in the Arctic. The men stick gamble and play cards, they laugh a……続きを見る

Sunshine glistens off of sugar snow, billions of tiny crystals sparkle like diamonds. Skies are deep, deep into blue. Squinting one eye, it is hard to gaze out over the frozen Ocean and not be blind……続きを見る

You complain that your life is too fast. That there is not enough time to do all of the things that you have to do, to see the people you have to see. If you truly want to slow your life down get ri……続きを見る

We will be moving yet again. This move will take us to the Arctic Ocean and into the domain of the “Eaters of Raw Meat.” Coppermine which is now called Kugluktuk, is located on the Coronation Gulf, ……続きを見る

I am a little girl. My feet stick out in front of me on the worn green leather seat. Across from me on a duplicate seat that turns in to face mine, are my three younger brothers. I snuggle deeper in……続きを見る

Fasten your seatbelts, this storey jumps time and space and content, you are smart people you will figure it out. Bored was a word that I don’t recall using as a child or hearing other kids use eith……続きを見る

Hi Ho, Hi Ho it’s off to school we go! Grace’s Uncle Allen shows up at our house with kids in tow. He has devised a system that enables all of the school kids who live by the Arctic Ocean to get to ……続きを見る

(BURIED ALIVE) Lashing winds drive walls of snow across a vanishing trail. A single skidoo struggles to maintain its course on a track that is rapidly disappearing under the driven snow. The heavy ……続きを見る

One hundred and twenty six dogs stretch out across the frozen McKenzie River. Eighteen teams of dogs become thin lines of broken black thread that sew their way toward the even blacker ridge of peck……続きを見る

Our school continues to grade eight. Grade eight and grade seven share the same classroom. If we were still living in Fort Good Hope N.W.T. I would have to go to residential school in Inuvik for gra……続きを見る

On the McKenzie River there were apparent cultural influences from the Hudson Bay Company and French Voyagers, to the men who had worked on the barges and plied the great river looking for adventure……続きを見る

April is a grand month for sliding. Sunshine warms the surface of the snow and ice glazes road surfaces and drifts of snow that have banked up during the long winter of whiteouts. There is no such t……続きを見る

April in the Arctic means there are still three months left until spring arrives. Spring, springs into action overnight and the next day it is summer. And then, just before you realize that it is su……続きを見る

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the houses, not a creature was stirring not even the mouses. (Nee lemmings) All of the people of Coppermine were dressed in their finest with care, It……続きを見る

Raw winds rip and tear at a tattered hide that barely keeps the old lady and tiny baby from being frozen. The remnants of a fire sputter and threaten to extinguish itself with every blast of frozen ……続きを見る

Please, please, please, can I? Please let me go, I will be careful, I’ll dress warm and I’ll listen. My friend Alice as I will call her for this storey, is going out for the Easter weekend on the s……続きを見る

The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there. A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was……続きを見る

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