Canada: Living In The Far North – A Personal Experience

On 04.25.10, In Climate, Clothes, Lives, By Bolot

Another great Arctic news resource is George Lessard, a journalist based in Yellowknife, Canada. He works like a real broadcasting company. He is everywhere on the Internet, on Yahoo!, Google, Flickr, YouTube & many other sites. His main website is MediaMentor.ca. Recommend to follow him on his Twitter channels @Northern_Clips & @mediamentor… It was George, who shared the link to the below personal story.

Sault Ste. Marie resident, Ryan Paquette shares his experiences from the far north.
Downtown Resolute Bay

I am writing from the far reaches of the Canadian North, from a place called Resolute Bay, on Cornwallis Island, in Nunavut.

It is also known by its Inuktitut name, Qausuittuq (pronounced “cow-swee-took”), which means “place with no dawn”. The Inuit name is appropriate because this arctic community, with a population of just over 200, gets over two months of 24-hour darkness in the winter, and an equal amount of 24-hour daylight in the summer. (more…)

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Greenland: Silent Snow – The Project

On 04.24.10, In Climate, Education, Environment, Events, Lives, Music, Natures, Projects, Science, documentary, By Bolot

Heroes of the Silent Snow documentary

I am really thankful to the destiny for giving me opportunity to get acquanted with Galya Morell, a New York based educator, who appeared eventually to be my best channel to many Arctic environment alert projects. Today, with her help, I learned about another fantastic Greenland project called “Silent Snow.”

“This morning Silent Snow – a must see documentary featuring the Uummannaq Music protagonists – was introduced to a forum of distinguished delegates and ambassadors at the UN. Thank you to Moki Kokoris who made it possible. Hopefully, this will lead to some concrete results,” wrote Galya Morell in her last status update on the Uummannaq Music facebook fan page on April 23, 2010.

So what is this project about? Before clicking the link “More”, please, know that I am very open-minded and extremely interested in any inspiring helpful Arctic-related projects. If you run some of them or are aware of some great initiatives, I beg you to share such info with me via our Cold United FB fan page or directly via the contact form.

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Nunamiut Eskimo Dance

On 11.09.09, In Cultures, People, Societies, Videos, By rpiereck

This video was shot during Fairbanks’ 2009 annual Festival of Native Arts, where artists from all around Alaska and the Outside come to celebrate their native heritage by showcasing arts and crafts, dances, native games, and other cultural activities.

These are Nunamiut dancers from Anaktuvuk Pass, one of the coldest towns in Alaska. The Nunamiut are inland Eskimos, who hunt caribou rather than whales. Anaktuvuk Pass is only accessible by airplane, or by going through the bush in the winter, using snow machines or SnoCats.

They performed a couple of dances, most of them from 30 seconds to 1 minute long. Sometimes I wished they went on for longer as they were quite entertaining, you could tell the dances told a story and I wish I understood their language. On all dances the males stomped one foot on the ground to the beat of the drums, while the women did not stomp. Their drums were large but light, made of some animal skin (possibly caribou) stretched over a round wooden frame. They were the only instruments used by the performers.

Looking by the number of people on stage it looks like most of the village came down to perform; the total population is only 249!

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