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Malaya Qaunirq Chapman spotted these ptarmigans while out hunting with her partner, family and friends on Saturday outside Kuujjuaq. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Isabelle Dubois captured this image of an inuksuk near the Range neighbourhood of Kuujjuaq on Saturday, March 20, the first day of spring. “Now that we have moved the time forward, it’s definitely nice to enjoy longer days, with beautiful sunsets like this one,” she wrote. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

For Us, By Us, a fashion show held by the Nunavut Black History Society on Sunday, featured designs by Victoria’s Arctic Fashion, K’RZMA, Rannva Design and others. The black-tie event at the Aqsarniit hotel sold out in record time. From left: Jo-Anne Henderson-White, Faith Russell, Matilda Madekufamba, Kaitlyn Richardson-Nobiss and Jah’Nia Greaves. (Photo by Artico Creative)

Pangnirtung Fisheries Ltd. recently shared this image on social media of one of the bigger turbot to have come through their processing plant, weighing 28.24 pounds. (Image courtesy of Pangnirtung Fisheries)

Puvirnituq’s Aisa Surusilak, right, and Paulusi Amarualik are hoisted into the air after winning this year’s Ivakkak dog sled race on Wednesday. The team completed this year’s route, from Salluit to Ivujivik, Akulivik and Puvirnituq, in 39 hours and 30 minutes, after enduring blizzards, soft snow conditions and cold winds. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Peter Tapatai, centre, is seen after receiving the Order of Nunavut on Monday evening. The award recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions to the territory. Premier Joe Savikataaq hailed the Baker Lake businessman on social media as “an entrepreneur and strong advocate for his community and culture.” And, Savikataaq said, “he’s also a real-life superhero” — while working for the Inuit Broadcasting Corp. in the late 1980s, Tapatai created and played the part of the iconic Inuk superhero, Super Shamou. (Photo by Allan Rumbolt)

Nunavik performers Sylvia Cloutier, left, and Beatrice Deer throat sing alongside Quebec singer-songwriter Ariane Moffatt on Sunday, on an episode of Quebec talent show Star Académie. You can watch the full performance here. (Image courtesy of TVA/Star Académie)

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A dogsled team heads out onto Adams Sound near Arctic Bay on Feb. 20, as the sun peeks over the mountain known as Tununirusiq. (Photo by Clare Kines)

Kativik Regional Government regional councillors met last week at the Katittavik Town Hall in Kuujjuaq Feb. 22-25 — the first time the organization has held an in-person meeting of its regional councillors since last February. A group of photojournalism students from Jaanimmarik school took photos of the meetings for Nunatsiaq News on Thursday, led by instructor Isabelle Dubois. (Photo by Annie Lock)

The Government of Nunavut is in good financial shape despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, says Finance Minister George Hickes, who presented the territorial government’s budget for 2021-22 Tuesday afternoon in the legislature. Hickes forecast almost $2.4 billion in revenue for the coming fiscal year. (Photo by Dustin Patar)

Smidge and Friends is a weekly feature in Nunatsiaq News. It is drawn by Ayla Kreelak, an artist from Baker Lake.

Henry Saunders, an employee of the Northern Village of Kuujjuaq hunters’ support program, cuts caribou meat Jan. 21 to help stock the community freezer. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

A lone caribou is spotted by Lavinia Flaherty, Tiivi Dupuis and Daniel Gadbois, who take aim 190 kilometres up river from Kuujjuaq, on Jan. 30. (Photo courtesy of Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Health-care workers welcome Kuujjuaq residents to the community’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic, hosted Wednesday and Thursday in the Jaanimmarik school gym. General vaccination clinics are being held in communities across Nunavik this month for adults age 18 and up. The next few villages to host clinics will be Kangirsuk Feb. 15-16 in its school gym; Tasiujaq Feb. 15-16 at the local health centre; Akulivik Feb. 15-20 in the school gym and Kangiqsualujjuaq Feb. 18-19 in the school gym. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

A caribou herd stands beneath the golden sky about 190 kilometres up river from Kuujjuaq Jan. 31. (Photo courtesy of Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Malaya Qaunirq Chapman poses next to two caribou she caught, 190 kilometres up river from Kuujjuaq on Jan. 31. “I’m so happy to do as my ancestors did, hunt long distances and provide for my friends and family. I’m in my element here,” she writes. (Photo courtesy of Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Daniel Gadbois, Etua Snowball and Tiivi Dupuis butcher caribou they’ve caught north of Kuujjuaq on Jan. 31 to provide meat for friends and family. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Etua Snowball takes aim at a caribou herd on Jan. 30, 190 kilometres up river from Kuujjuaq. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Water vapour rises from the shore behind Iqaluit’s old graveyard Jan. 31 during sunrise around 9 a.m. “The golden light, the water vapours rising from the overflow, the silhouette of a person on the beach and the shadows casted by the crucifixes—all these elements together created the mood to this landscape photo,” writes photographer Blaine Heffernan. (Photo by Blaine Heffernan)

Kuujjuaq children flock to a popular sledding hill Jan. 29. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Eva Aariak is congratulated by Speaker Paul Quassa after being sworn in as the sixth commissioner of Nunavut during a ceremony inside the territorial legislature Wednesday. Aariak was also awarded with the Order of Nunavut during the ceremony. Attendees included Premier Joe Savikataaq, Nunavut Chief Justice Neil Sharkey and, by video-conference, Dan Vandal, the federal minister of northern affairs. (Photo courtesy of Michel Albert)