{"id":1249,"date":"2013-10-28T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iqqaumavara.com\/en\/?page_id=1249"},"modified":"2023-10-03T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:22:24","slug":"grise-fiord","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/grise-fiord\/","title":{"rendered":"Grise Fiord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-1260\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-108-0 metaslider metaslider-responsive metaslider-1260 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"New Slider\" data-height=\"596\" data-width=\"896\">\n<div id=\"metaslider_container_1260\">\n<ul id='metaslider_1260' class='rslides'>\n<li aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-0'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grise-Fiord_0003.jpg\" height=\"596\" width=\"896\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-1260 slide-1263 msDefaultImage\" 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-28,9\u00b0C<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1215\" alt=\"BOEUF\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BOEUF.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/>Meeka Kiguktak \u2013 Mayor of Grise Fiord \u2013 (2012)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We live here on the south of Ellesmere Island and it\u2019s the more northerly community in Canada. We are a busy little town. Everybody seems busy all the time, even in the dark season. That\u2019s when all sorts of programs are running. There\u2019s the scrapbooking happening, the Qamutik making, harpoon head making, nutrition classes, making muskoox wool, hunting, (\u2026) When spring comes everybody is out. They\u2019re either fishing, camping or just sightseeing, seal hunting, caribou hunting, that\u2019s what we do in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>We do a lot of our traditionnal activities in order to survive up here. If we tried surviving from the Coop store, like for food, it wouldn\u2019t work. So we depend on country food a lot. Our main country food is seal meat and polar bear meat and maktaq (whale skin), whale meat, fish, depend on the time of year too. It\u2019s seasonal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the thing I think I really have to say too is when people catch narwals, anything big like caribou, muskox, anything like that, we share. Everybody gets the chance to have a little bit of that meat. One good thing about our community, we are closely connected, just like a big family.<\/p>\n<p>Altough I myself, when I go to the old village where they put the relocation people, when I see the graveyards there, it still hurts. I can still imagine how it was like to have been put there in the later summer days when it\u2019s getting colder and I can\u2019t imagine ever living there or how they survived but they made it through.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges here for Grise Fiord is it\u2019s such a small community, it\u2019s very isolated, the high cost of living here is unbelievable and then with airfare (\u2026) it\u2019s costing us too much to get out of town. It\u2019s a close community, we are so connected to each other, we help each other a lot. And that&#8217;s how it\u2019s like to be healthy. You have to be physically, spiritually, emotionally healthy to live up here. You have to be able to accept the dark winters especially. It\u2019s cold, sometime when it\u2019s not full moon\u00a0 it\u2019s very dark outside.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><em>Ausuittuqmiut<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45215631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1214\" alt=\"ausuittuqmiut\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ausuittuqmiut-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ausuittuqmiut-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ausuittuqmiut.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45215631\">Watch the short film<\/a> made by talented young people of this community during the video training!<\/p>\n<p>In the movie &#8220;Ausuittuqmiut&#8221;, Pauline Akeeagok, Arnarulunnguaq Audlaluk and Kristine Watsko bring up childhood memories and show us the beauty of their community. To grow up in Grise Fiord is to grow up on a huge playground, and much like everywhere else on the planet, nothing says fun like a good game of hide and seek!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u140a\u1405\u152a\u1403\u1466\u1450\u1585\u00a0ou\u00a0Aujuittuq, \u00abthe place that never thaws out\u00a0\u00bb Population\u00a0: 134 Latitude 76\u00b0 25\u2019 00\u201d N Longitude 82\u00b0 54\u2019 00\u201d W Average temperature in August\u00a0: 1,4\u00b0C Average temperature in January\u00a0: -28,9\u00b0C Meeka Kiguktak \u2013 Mayor of Grise Fiord \u2013 (2012) &#8220;We live here on the south of Ellesmere Island and it\u2019s the more northerly community in Canada. 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