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Welcome to the beautiful Island, Victoria Island, Kiilinikmiut Inuinnait. Cambridge Bay once again had a busy summer as usual, a growing hub in the Kitikmeot. It seemed like an early spring and summer that happened this year, experiencing climate change. It has been a very busy spring and summer for residents of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. With lots of daylight 24 hours a day and soon to be darkness coming up in November and December. But as you flying into the communities during the darkness each landing as we approach the communities, it looks so beautiful all lit up like a Christmas town, very beautiful to see this, no matter what time of day you are flying, it is still dark. Many fisherman were busy out at the regular lakes and rivers commercial fishing for few weeks, it is so rewarding and good to see our fishermen being out on their ancestral lands, sending fresh arctic char and dried fish home to their families. Cambridge Bay has always been a fishing village and today the families and grandchildren carry on the tradition of fishing. We hope that our lands and oceans continue to have an abundance of food from the lands of our ancestors. It is nice for the fishermen to be out there working hard and where it is being out on the land where it is so peaceful and quiet and healing. When Inuit are out on the land it is so healing and to feel that we are surrounded by our Ancestors, our loved ones. Try it, it really works.
It is that time of year where Inuit women are busy fleshing and cleaning their families seals that were harvested both for food and clothing. One lady has been busy from Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Rosie Kilabuk will be busy all winter sewing kamiit for her family and for her grandchildren. Once she has fleshed the seal, the meat is part of Inuit diet food, and the skins are used to make clothing such as outdoor clothing to keep warm in the winter such as coats, footwear, mitts, hats etc. For Rosie to make a pair of kamiit takes her about one week and if there is designs to fancy her kamiit, it would take little longer than a week. Kamiit were invented by Inuit and is one of the warmest footwear ever invented. It is such a treasure to be able to wear and own your own pair of kamiit (footwear.) Today, for Inuit women, it is very important to learn how to make a pair, along with other products. It is today a fashion for many and also to be wearing sealskin in the north is rich in tradition and also to be proud being an Inuk. Let us continue learning how to sew anything and everything for our families as our Ancestors look and watch with their big smiles and being proud of us. One of many of our Elders help us to learn how to sew is a real honour, locally big thanks to Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq/Kitikmeot Heritage Society with Emily Angulalik and the Elders In Residence and also to Ilitaqsiniq with Rosabelle Aknavigak for their strong willingness to keep the culture and traditions and teaching going. It is such an honour to have these ladies and courses continue so that Inuit and non-Inuit and especially our younger generation be taught the Inuit ways which our Ancestors started. Today when you walk around Cambridge Bay you see more of our Inuit wearing new atigiit (parka/coats) and kammak (footwear) which were handmade by our very own mothers, aunts, grandmothers and youth. Keep up the sewing and learning everyone. You are so beautiful.
God Be With You Son. You have growing family.
