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)
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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)
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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)
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Kuujjuaq photographer Isabelle Dubois took this photo while walking along the river during sunset Feb. 5. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
ᐋᑕᒥ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᖅᑐᑦ 67 ᐳᓴᓐᑎᓂᒃ ᓂᕈᐊᕐᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ, ᓵᓚᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᓂᕈᐊᖅᑕᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᕋᓱᒃᑐᒥᑦ ᓵᓕ ᕗᐊᑦ
Health-care workers welcome Kuujjuaq residents to the community’s first general vaccination clinic in February. Regional health authorities are now rolling out a second round of immunization clinics. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)
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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)
