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The pride flag will now fly at Iqaluit city hall for one week every June after a unanimous vote during last night’s city council meeting. In the past, as was the case last night in a motion brought forward by Coun. Kyle Sheppard, the raising of the flag needed to be voted on every year by council. (Photo by Meagan Deuling)

Arviat graduates on ATVs line up along John Arnalukjuak High School on June 19, after receiving their diplomas at a drive-through presentation, followed by a graduate parade through town. Forty students are graduating from Arviat’s high school this year. (Photo by Patrick Taleriktok)

Iqaluit’s graduating class lined up in vehicles in front of Nakasuk School on Tuesday, June 23. They sang along to Song of the Land, and then proceeded to parade through the city. Onlookers waved and honked their horns. Vehicles were decorated with balloons, signs and paint. Some grads wore dresses, suits and graduation caps. (Photo by Meagan Deuling)

Following a successful beluga hunt, Kuujjuaq residents share maktak on Sunday, June 21, on National Indigenous Peoples Day. Here, Ayaana Berthe gives out maktak to people lining up alongside the boat of her grandfather, Simeonie Berthe, who went hunting with his son, Simon Berthe, and Juanasie Saunders. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Following a successful beluga hunt, Kuujjuaq residents share maktak on Sunday, June 21, on National Indigenous Peoples Day. Here, hunter Simeonie Berthe’s wife Betsy (right) and daughter Julie-Ann (left) are seen cutting up maktak. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Following a successful beluga hunt, Kuujjuaq residents share maktak on Sunday, June 21, on National Indigenous Peoples Day. Thomas Shea is seen here distributing maktak. He went hunting with his son Thomas Jr., seen sitting on the boat, and his daughter Matilda, not pictured. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Tents are popping up in Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park for summer camping, as this photo taken by Bill Williams on the evening of Thursday, June 18, shows. Nunatsiaq News staff wish our readers a happy National Indigenous Peoples Day. (Photo by B. Williams)

Families and neighbours are working together to pick up litter in Iqaluit today. From left: Peter Akavak, baby Jamesie Giles, Lesley Giles, Nicholas Tremblay, Nicholas Firman (with umbrella), Lindsey Panniluk and Tony Michael Manning (in front with the bike). (Photo by Meagan Deuling)

Pond Inlet celebrated the accomplishments of this year’s high school graduates on Friday, June 12, with a parade around the community. Pond Inlet’s Nasivvik High School had nine graduates this year. (Photo by Norman Koonoo)

Nunavut singer-songwriter Riit’s latest album, Ataataga, released in October 2019, has made the Polaris Prize’s 2020 long list, announced on Monday, June 15. The Polaris Prize annually honours the best full-length Canadian album, regardless of album sales, judged by a panel of music experts. The organization will announce a short list on July 15 and host a winners’ gala on Sept. 21. (Photo courtesy of Riit)

A male willow ptarmigan in breeding feathers is seen under the midnight sun on the tundra near Kugluktuk, Nunavut, on June 7. (Photo © Mathieu Dumond/Umingmak Productions Inc.)

Happy Birthday to Qaapik Attagutsiak, who turns 100 years old today. Attagutsiak, who now lives in Arctic Bay, was born on June 11, 1920, at a place called Siuraq, located between Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet) and Coral Harbour, in Nunavut’s Kivalliq region. Earlier this year, Parks Canada honoured her as a “hometown hero” for contributions she made during the Second World War. Attagutsiak has made many other contributions, especially as a midwife. As a midwife, she helped deliver hundreds of babies and helped set up the Akausivik Inuit Family Health Team and Medical Centre in Ottawa, and she has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. (File photo)

“Little Person Finds Big Ulu” is among 40 drawings by Kinngait artist Qavavau Manumie on display at Feheley Fine Arts’ gallery in Toronto as part of an exhibition called Layers that runs from June 6 to June 27. Little people, or Inuralaat, from Inuit myths make frequent appearances in Manumie’s drawings. The exhibition can be viewed online. (Image courtesy of Feheley Fine Arts)

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Andrew Tagak took this spectacular photo of qamutiks on the sea ice at Pond Inlet, on May 31 at 1:58 a.m., set against the early morning sun over Bylot Island. (Photo by A. Tagak)

Photographer Bill Williams took this photo of blue light over Iqaluit at midnight on May 23/24. (Photo by B. Williams)

This untitled drawing by Kinngait artist Qavavau Manumie is one of eight works by him included in an exhibition that opens today at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The exhibit, “The Penumbral Age: Art in the Time of Planetary Change,” runs until Sept. 13. You can view the exhibition online. (Photo courtesy of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative)

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Nunavik Sivunitsavut students pose for a photo with visiting anthropologist Bernard Saladin D’Anglure last fall. Twelve students from the Montreal-based program are graduating from this year’s program. You can watch the online ceremony on Friday, June 5 at 7 p.m. on the Isuma TV Facebook page. (Photo courtesy of NS)

Laurencio Arnatsiaq of Igloolik drum dances for the opening ceremonies of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ hearings in Montreal in March 2018, a week that was dedicated to Inuit testimony. Today, June 3, marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the inquiry’s final report, which issued 231 calls for justice. A national action plan being drafted to respond to those calls, which was to be released today, has been postponed. (Photo by Sarah Rogers)

This close-up of purple saxifrage flowers taken in Sanikiluaq on May 25 shows the buds just starting to open up after a long winter. (Photo by Sarah Meeko)

Hunters on the ice fire their guns in the air on May 25 to let the residents of Sanikiluaq know that their beluga hunt was successful. Shortly after this picture was taken, the hunters shared their catch of maktaaq and whale meat with the community. (Photo by Sarah Meeko)