Hugs for the departing Canadians - now that it's over, I must figure out how to get this gone
I am pleasantly exhausted and not quite certain how to proceed. Kuukpik's 40th anniversary celebration of the return of the Kuukpikmiut to their former home to build the modern village of Nuiqsut is over and I have hardly posted a thing. This is in part due to the fact there is no AT&T 4G in Nuiqsut and the wireless at the hotel has been down more than it has been up. There is wireless at the school, the main venue site, but every post I tried to make from the gym failed. I did find the hot spot in the classroom area, but to go there meant leaving the action, so I didn't go there often. Plus, I have been very busy. Still, I would like to post a representation of the sequence of events that happened. When? I could wait until after I get home tommorrow night. Right now, I am at Kuukpik Corporation on their wireless, but they are about to close for the day. Maybe tonight the hotel wireless will work and I can do it there. But then I am so sleepy I might just collapse and go to bed. In the meantime, here is one image from today's departure of the Canadians back to Aklavik, Yukon Territory. At left, Aklavik's Annie B. Gordon gets a hug from Lucy Nukapigak (facing camera) of Nuiqsut as Manny Arey is embraced by Waylon Leavitt of Barrow. Feelings at departure were warm, happy and sad and there were a couple of special moments. I will show something of those moments once I complete a summation of the celebration, whether I do so here or not until after I return home.
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