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Wednesday February 24 2016 5 COLUMNS 15 Years Ago... WBNP says moose meat cant be handed out The superintendent of Wood Bualo National Park says the meat from the moose Ken Hudson shot in the park cannot legally be distributed to anyone in the com- munity. Josie Weninger says that if anyone from the WBNP oce gave the meat to anyone in the commu- nity charges could be laid under the National Parks Act. Issue February 20 2001 20 Years Ago... Status of Women hires executive director The Status of Women Council of the NWT named Sharon Hall as their new executive director on Febru- ary 6 1996. She will take up her position on Mar. 4. Hall is currently the interim executive director with the Constitutional Development Steering Committee. Issue February 20 1996 30 Years Ago... Anti-egg law to court The territorial government is going to court to chal- lenge a federal law that prevents the Hay River Dene Band from selling eggs in Alberta. The government will challenge as unconstitutional a section of the Farm Products Marketing Agencies Act. The act gives the Ca- nadian Egg Marketing Agency the power to set quotas on the interprovincial trade of eggs. Issue February 20 1986 ARCHIVES By DAWN KOSTELNIK April is the month that a large percentage of the com- munity spreads out on to the sea ice for the spring seal hunt. I have not gone out on a hunt yet. Kids are let out of school to participate and help on this hunt. Kids return to class after a week of sealing as adults with white circles around their eyes and black peeling skin on their cheeks chins and noses. Inuit have fairer complexionsthantheDeneon the Mackenzie River. Spring sunshine gets magnied and reverberates o of millions of snow crystals these people are getting sunburned and frost bitten at the same time. The black peeling marks on faces are from frostbite or White Girl Playing games maybe a solid freezing. This happens when your face is ex- posed above the shield on the Ski-doo or you face into the wind on the Komatik. Protec- tion from the wooden goggles prevents the area around the eyes from getting sunburned or tanned. Games that Inuit play do not require much space or equipment. Neither of these are to be had when you live a nomadic life and exist in micro-confined areas dur- ing the winter. Snow houses known to most everyone as igloos were lived in during the winter months. Small confined spaces needed less to heat these people were green before there was a green. Hides of caribou and seals covering supporting bits of precious wood or big bones of large sea mammals serve as shelter in the short time when the snow is gone the summer cottage. Living without wood to construct shelter or to cook or heat your home takes much in- genuity. During the short months of summer there is little need or time for games. In the summer the world is awake and begging to be explored. The whole family including the very smallest of children has to contribute to gathering and harvest- ing fat seals caribou and berries to carry themselves through the next endless night of winter. There is barely enough time for so many projects that have to be done under a sun that cir- cles endlessly for a month. The endless night of winter is when people cooped up in a confined space need to entertain themselves the Inuit were masters at this. Their physical games hinged mainly on brute strength and endurance. A thong of caribou has a multitude of uses. It can keep your kamiks shoes on and prevent your mitts from being lost. Or it can be used to rip off your op- ponents ear in a game of tug of war. This is a simple concept. Loop the leather thong over your ear and your competi- tors ear then with all of the strength in you neck and head pull back until your competition yells the Inuit equivalent of uncle. Warn- ing this may not happen until there is a show of blood. Sometimes the thong slips. Everyone laughs and slaps each other on the back. There is a tie no one wants to feel bad for the losers. To be continued www.thewhitegirl.ca A traditional twist on Stop Bullying Day By SARAH PRUYS Ingenious as always Chief Sunrise Education Centre on the Katlodeeche First Nations Reserve is putting a Slavey spin on the anti- bullying initiative Pink Shirt Day by hosting Setsani Day instead. Setsani which translates to be a friend in Slavey has been a prominent theme in the school ever since the combined pre-Kindergar- ten-Grade 1 class released a conflict resolution music video with the same title in 2015 with the help of B.C. musician and videographer Rik Leaf. This year the school expanded on what being a friend means and has also been learning about random acts of kindness which is an international movement reminding peo- ple to be kinder to one an- other. It also fits well with this years Pink Shirt Day theme Kindness is one size fits all. Kindergarten-Grade 2 teacher Ashley Beck ex- plained that every class in the school studied the same book Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli which is the story of a lonely man whose life changes for the better because of his and others small acts of kind- ness. Classroom talks and activities based on the book led to students learning the importance of performing kind acts every day - not just when times are tough and their friends need help. The students have paid extra attention to recogniz- ing and performing acts of kindness. Any time someone performedanactofkindness they were given a pink slip to add to our giant love meter - a cupids arrow up on the wall in the hall Beck ex- plained. When they ll the love meter the teachers will perform an act of kindness for them. By Setsani Day the stu- dents aim to have completed 240randomactsof kindness or RAK for short. That works out to about one act of kind- ness per day per student over a span of two weeks. Staff are busy preparing to celebrate the completion of this goal with even more positive energy kind acts and fun - including a slid- ing party. It is about being kind to each other says Myccaella Jacobs-Sabourin a Grade 2 student when asked by Beck to explain what the past two weeks have been about. I helped people calm down when they were upset. Other students in the Kindergarten-Grade 2 class chimed in to add what kind actstheyhavecompletedover the past couples of weeks. I put the dishes away and I helped my friends sound out words said Claudia Fabian. Fellow classmate Dillon Clarke noted I helped my teacher put her boots on. I helped my family. I gave people hugs and kisses added Kairyssa Jacobs-Sabourin. With how popular Pink Shirt Day and random acts of kindnesshavebecomemaybe the school should copyright Setsani Day before it takes over the world too Northern Journal 2016 Join us online Like Northern Journal on Facebook and get the weekly news delivered to your feed FACEBOOK FEEDBACK From growing up in Fort Smith to growing his busi- ness from the ground up in Hay River new MLA and cabinet minister Wally Schumann has pursued bigger and better things for his career and his community. Hay Rivers Schumann exchanges business life for government posts 22 people liked and 11 people shared this. Making made-for-the-North nurses at Aurora College Ron Gwynne and Barbara Hood liked this.