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  • Damarise Aqqiarug dresses her two-year-old son Lester in an outpost camp near Igloolik. In an effort to reconnect with the land, some Inuit families have chosen to move out of town to live in outpost camps. Until Europeans came north,  the Inuit had lived on the land as nomadic hunters for about 4,500 years. Living in an outpost camp  is a remnant of this nomadic Inuit lifestyle. The government provides a small subsidy to help families set up. The Aqqiarugs built a small shelter and hunt and fish for a living. Aurora image #1891410004
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  • Damarise Aqqiarug dresses her two-year-old son Lester in an outpost camp near Igloolik. In an effort to reconnect with the land, some Inuit families have chosen to move out of town to live in outpost camps. Until Europeans came north,  the Inuit had lived on the land as nomadic hunters for about 4,500 years. Living in an outpost camp  is a remnant of this nomadic Inuit lifestyle. The government provides a small subsidy to help families set up. The Aqqiarugs built a small shelter and hunt and fish for a living.
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  • One of the girls has her head wrapped in African cloth.
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  • By the end of the day Saturday each girl has been outfitted in African cloth and had her head wrapped.
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  • Sarita Hawthorne wraps the head of a young girl with african cloth for the ceremony.  The girls are encouraged to express their creativity and to look into the future and project goals for themselves. "And didn’t anyone tell you that it is at night when you see how beautiful the stars shine? Black is beautiful because black is me. From a poem by Sarah Poole.
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  • Sarita Hawthorne wraps the head of a young girl with african cloth for the ceremony.  The girls are encouraged to express their creativity and to look into the future and project goals for themselves. "And didn't anyone tell you that it is at night when you see how beautiful the stars shine? Black is beautiful because black is me. From a poem by Sarah Poole.
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  • After being fitted with clothes of African design and heads wrapped, girls wait to practice the performance at the end of the program.<br />
"Black is the color of coal<br />
 Black is the color of soil<br />
 Black is night<br />
 But Black is beautiful."<br />
 From a poem by Sarah Poole.
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