Fun and games in Kuujjuaq

Community celebrates with annual Christmas games

Attasie Saunders takes aim during a target-shooting contest on Dec. 29 at Stewart Lake in Kuujjuaq as part of the community’s Christmas games. She won first place in the target-shooting contest with a .22-calibre rifle. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman, special to Nunatsiaq News)

By Nunatsiaq News

Nunavimmiut in Kuujjuaq celebrated Christmas and New Year’s with the community’s annual Christmas games.

Photographer Malaya Qaunirq Chapman captured some of the excitement.

  • Lavinia Gordon smiles while other children run around her during the Christmas games at the Kuujjuaq Forum on Dec. 24. On the weekend before Christmas and for the week afterward, the community held its annual games. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman, special to Nunatsiaq News)
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