Category Archives: snow

[aniuvak: Inuit for snowbank] A great winter pleasure for northern kids is building a snow fort of tunnels and rooms carved in the bowls of a snowbank. You will notice I said building is the great pleasure; they hardly ever … Continue reading →

[anui: Inuit for packed snow] there came a time when peeing outside the tent — out of sight of the giggling young Inuit women who would play spy-on-the-white-man with anyone emerging from the poker game and freeing his dink from … Continue reading →

[auksalaq: Inuit for melting snow] We had trudged across the mile of unbroken sitliq* between our cluster of tents beside the frozen lake and the drill sites on the high ridge every day for several weeks. Nights were mystical bright … Continue reading →