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Iqaluit organization shares country food with elders

Iqaluit elders receive more than 100 packages of country food Thursday, including caribou, Arctic char and other essentials, from the Nunavummi Disabilities Makinnasuaqtiit Society at the Elders Qammaq. (Photo by Livete Ataguyuk)

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Iqaluit carver Johnny Manning finishes a Dancing Bear

Cold weather didn’t stop Johnny Manning from finishing off one of his Dancing Bear carvings in Iqaluit Wednesday. The high temperature for the day was – 20 C with a chance of light snow. (Photo by Livete Ataguyuk)

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Sacred fire honours missing children, survivors

Ceremony marks end of National Gathering on Unmarked Burials in Iqaluit

Attendees of the National Gathering on Unmarked Burials stand around a sacred fire outside the Aqsarniit hotel in Iqaluit. Throughout the three-day conference, some attendees teared up listening to conversations about abuse in residential schools and the children who died. Conference emcees asked that people throw the tissues they used in paper bags, which were used to start the fire. The sacred fire has been a part of other gatherings with special interlocutor Kimberly Murray, “to allow participants to offer medicines and prayers for the spirits of the missing children, survivors and family members,” according to her office. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)

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‘This is your gathering’: unmarked burials conference begins in Iqaluit

Sheldon Nipisar from Arviat drums in a circle, surrounded by elders and residential school survivors from Indigenous communities across Canada at the opening ceremony of the National Gathering on Unmarked Burials in Iqaluit, Tuesday. Representatives from Indigenous communities from beyond Nunavut are attending the three-day conference at the Aqsarniit hotel. Qikiqtani Inuit Association vice-president Levi Barnabus delivered opening remarks, welcoming the crowd attending in person and those tuning in online. “This is your gathering,” he said. “Some of the conversations may be difficult. We are all here in this together.” (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)