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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 <a href=

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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 <a href=

view the exhibition online. (Photo courtesy of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative)">

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)

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Giant Bear walked away from the final night of the Canadian Screen Awards with the award for Best Animated Short. Last night’s win of one of Canada’s most prestigious screen awards also qualifies Giant Bear for Oscar consideration. Produced by Iqaluit-based Taqqut Productions and Montreal-based edfilms, the short animation, which is based on a book of the same name, tells the story of a lone hunter who stumbles across an unusually large aglu—or breathing hole—before realizing it’s being kept open by a nanurluk—a mythological giant polar bear—sleeping under the ice. (Photo courtesy of Taqqut Productions and edfilms)

Vinnie Baron wrestles with her catch on an ice fishing trip outside of Kangiqsualujjuaq earlier this month. Baron and her family return to the same fishing spot on Makaluu Lake every spring. (Photo by Felix St-Aubin)

Clare Kines shared this photo of people heading out on the land on Adam’s Sound, just outside Arctic Bay on May 14. Their destination was a fishing derby at Kuugaarjuk. (Photo courtesy of C. Kines)

Here is one of the numerous houses that Jens Edvard Brandt Steenberg built in Iqaluit in the 1990s, which are still sought after more than 20 years after he built them. Many in the city remember Steenberg, who died May 19 in Pincher Creek, Alta., at the age of 77. “Steenberg built” is still mentioned on realtors’ advertisements as a selling point. Kalman Strauss wrote on the funeral home memory wall that “Jens was not only a really nice person he was also the best homebuilder that Iqaluit ever had! His homes are still the nicest ones in town 20 years later.” You can find an online memory wall for Steenberg here. (Submitted photo)

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It’s time to stop for a cup of tea at Ikpikittuarjuup Ittillinga, which is at the bottom of Moffet Inlet, about 150 kilometres from Arctic Bay, and about 70 kilometres from this group’s destination of Kuugaarjuk on May 14. They caught char the following day at the fishing derby at Kuugaarjuk, but then left that evening due to a storm. (Photo by Clare Kines)

Frank Reardon took this photo of a nesting raven in Iqaluit on May 13. (Photo courtesy of F. Reardon)

It’s springtime in Nunavik and the willow ptarmigan are out looking for food and courtship, like this pair spotted outside of Kangiqsualujjuaq. The birds stay white through the winter months to remain camouflaged in the snow, but the head of the male willow ptarmigan changes to red and brown in the spring. (Photo by Felix St-Aubin)

The Orphan and the Polar Bear, a short animated film in Inuktitut about a little boy who is adopted by a polar bear elder, is among the offerings found at Ilinniarutit TV, a new video-streaming website by the Nunavut Bilingual Education Society. The website aims to teach the Inuit language to preschool children through the use of phonics and vocabulary videos and songs, as well as animated storybooks and books available for download. Visit it at www.ilinniarutit.ca. (Screen shot)

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Members of Nunavik’s co-operative movement gather for their annual meeting in 1974. Nunavik’s federation of 14 co-ops, Ilagiisaq-FCNQ, celebrates its 53rd anniversary today. The federation is Nunavik’s largest employer, with more than 1,100 employees, of which 800 are in the North. (Photo courtesy of Ilagiisaq-FCNQ)

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The Toronto Inuit Association is holding online workshops throughout today to celebrate National Seal Products Day. You can join in by visiting the association’s <a href=

Facebook page. (Image courtesy of the TIA)">

Kids push their bikes up a hill in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, while an iceberg sits frozen in the bay behind them at around 10 p.m. on May 8. The offices of Nunatsiaq News will be closed on Monday for the Victoria Day holiday. We wish our readers a happy and peaceful weekend. (Photo by Norman Koonoo)

Early on Friday morning, the RCMP in Iqaluit blocked off a section of Imiqtarviminiq Road, which is also called the Lake Subdivision, or the 4100 area behind Dead Dog Lake. It was still blocked off at 9:30 a.m. An RCMP spokesperson said they would issue a press release about the incident later in the day. (Photo by Meagan Deuling)

Speaking at a news conference earlier today, Dr. Michael Patterson, Nunavut’s chief medical officer, said the territory’s re-opening plan will likely be unveiled next week. Patterson said internal restrictions would be lifted first, “starting with the lowest risk encounters and gradually expanding from there.” The first phase will include increasing the number of people who can be together outdoors, scheduling the opening of parks and opening daycares, Patterson said. The public health emergency has also been extended to May 28. There are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nunavut. (Photo by Emma Tranter)