Torngats 2015 - Where Nature and Culture Connect 16

Our Hosts in Hebron

The Merkuratsuk Family...  

...Inuit hosts at Hebron.   

Buddy and Jenny Merkuratsuk were at the dock in Hebron to meet us and help us ashore when we arrived. Jenny gave us a tour of the Mission building and was so pleased to show us the progress on the reconstruction. Upstairs in the loft, she asked to have a photo of her family, l-r: Julius, working as a carpenter on the site, Jenny, Simeone, who went the following week to head the kANGIDLUASUk youth program at the Base Camp, and Buddy.          

Torngats 28 - Char Drying for Pitsik

A Delicious Treat and an Efficient Method of Food Preparation  

A Whole Char is Filleted, Split to the Tail and Sliced into Bitesized Portions...  

...then hung in the sunshine and air-dried, for a tasty treat.   

Pitsik, dried fish, is a traditional food of the Inuit. Participants in the kANGIDLUASUk Student Program made a screened drying box for their pitsik and then they caught the char to put in it. Pitsik is a wholesome and nutritious snack -  or a meal in itself!    

Torngats 27 - Students Working on a Crafts Project

Participants in the kANGIDLUASUk Student Program Learn Many Skills 

Students from Nunatsiavut and Nunavik work with Resource People...  

...and practice a wide range of outdoor and indoor activities.   

Students are working on components of a large tapestry banner to be hung at the Base Camp. The completed banner displays painting, stamping, beadwork, applique and embroidery.   

Torngats 11 - Students in the Speedboat

On Route to Hebron - 1  

On a calm warm morning, the students and almost everyone else in the Base Camp set out ...  

...to go by longliner for a trip along the coast to Hebron.    

Each summer, the Torngat Mountains Base Camp in northern Labrador, Canada, provides a home base for students from Nunatsiavut and Nunavik participating in the kANGIDLUASUk Student Program. This program is a non-profit organisation that provides, co-ordinates, facilitates and supports experiential learning and leadership development opportunities for Inuit youth in the inter-related fields of Inuit Culture, Arctic science, and outdoor adventure.