Enjoys reading Nunatsiaq News

After finding your newspaper quite by chance when satisfying my curiosity about everyday life and times in the Arctic, I have become a regular visitor.

I believe a local newspaper should reflect the soul of the neighborhood and community and I believe you accomplish that well. Some of the issues are foreign to us here in the Midwest U.S., but after reading about them and the Nunavut territory, they make more sense to me.

I am particularly looking forward to Rachel Attituq Qitsualik’s upcoming column on violence in among the northern people. It will be interesting to see her insight into this history and to compare it with the history of the “western” peoples.

I enjoy Rachel’s writing. She writes well, with a nice conversational style that is somewhat rare. Most who try conversational writing make it seem affected and chatty or condescending. Please pass my faint praises to her for me.

Perhaps Rachel might answer a question for me. What does Pijariiqpunga mean?

May you enjoy peace and prosperity in the coming year.

Paul Bohn
Mount Sterling, Ohio
USA