Arctic Moment: Shoulder Season
Location: Tibbitt Lake, North Slave Region
Photo by Tashina Weagle/NWTT
Features
Running a Northern Lodge
A peek behind the scenes of the business of running a Northern lodge: from blizzards, bear invasions and caretakers gone crazy, to the ever-changing face of tourism.
Illustration by Michael Byers
Running a Northern Lodge
A peek behind the scenes of the business of running a Northern lodge: from blizzards, bear invasions and caretakers gone crazy, to the ever-changing face of tourism.
Visions of Deline
A tiny community beside a huge body of water makes a historic decision. Its prophet would approve.
Photo by Angela Gzowski
Last Word: She comes with baggage
Housesitting is usually a fun escape. But as one veteran discovers, it’s the tiny, but crucial, details that get you.
Illustration by Monika Melnychuk
Inappropriation
Every day aboriginal culture is borrowed, copied, dressed up or watered down. Is that art? Or is it stealing? Appropriation, it turns out, is all about the attitude.
“How do you teach someone the complexities of a situation without alienating them? Talking about cultural appropriation in the bathroom of a bar is the worst way to learn.” Jeneen Frei-Njootli Artist, Old Crow, Yukon. Photo courtesy of Jeneen Frei-Njootli
The State of the Hunt
Most years the porcupine caribou cross the Dempster. When they do, there's a harvest. Is this a healthy continuation of the old ways, or hi-tech slaughter?
Butchering is a family event on the river banks, with children playing, watching and learning. Photo Peter Mather
