Jessy Dietz from Clyde River shows his colours, posing with the Nunavut flag in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, where he’s attending the 2024 Olympic Games. (Photo courtesy of Jessy Dietz)
George Satuqsi removes a narwhal’s two-metre-long tusk on a warm, sunny Tuesday near Pond Inlet after the rest of the animal was taken away to harvest. Satuqsi is the father of Henry Maktar, 15, who hunted the narwhal — his first — earlier in the day off the coast of the north Baffin hamlet. It took Henry Maktar 40 minutes to bag the narwhal with his harpoon after it was first spotted, said Maktar’s uncle, Bernard Ulaayuk Maktar. This catch will be the first of many in his lifetime, Ulaayuk Maktar predicted. (Photo courtesy of Bernard Ulaayuk Maktar)
Meadow Mae Hakongak Evans sells lemonade and homemade cookies in front of her home in Cambridge Bay on July 26. The five-year-old entrepreneur is saving up money for her family’s trip to Disneyland in California in October. All told, she earned about $200 for her efforts, all of which went to her Disney trip saving box, said her aunt, Nuka Olsen-Hakongak, who helped with the sale. Olsen-Hakongak said her niece will start kindergarten in the fall, and with all the positive feedback about her lemonade Meadow Mae might have another sale before that. (Photo courtesy of Nuka Olsen-Hakongak)