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Tradition Worth Saving, A Future To Prepare For - Iqaluktuuttiaq creates traditional healing programs, modern infrastructure and prepares for COVID-19
Arctic Canada - The Culture Cure
English - March 29, 2020 06:00 - 50 minutes - 17.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSociety & Culture polar bear hudson bay indigenous northern lights reindeer climate remote hunting drums legends Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The small Canadian Arctic hamlet of Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay) is located on Victoria Island, and lies on the Northwest Passage in the Arctic Ocean. As do other Arctic communities, the hamlet faces many issues such as climate change, food insecurity, overcrowding in houses and now the Coronavirus. Despite these challenges, the community moves forward using traditional camps to heal those with addiction issues, engaging elders to teach traditional skills to the young, while also providing opportunities for the young to develop new strengths such as digital media production and other modern skills. In this episode we speak with Pamela Gross, the mayor of Iqaluktuutiaq, regarding these topics and more.