118円 Lying on the wind swept beach, a giant bank of snow has started to soften and reveal the outlines of a brooding hulk. A curve of ribs is displayed against the skyline. A dark splash begins to show on the rib line as the sun finds it attractive against the vast whiteness, the sun concentrates its ...

118円 I remember when I walked five miles through snowdrifts that were up to my butt; packing my little brother on my back cause he didn’t have any shoes. All we had to eat were potato samwitches made out of crumbling home made bread, scooping snow to melt in mouths when we were thirsty, you kids today...

118円 Just south of Fort Good Hope NWT, the mighty McKenzie River squeezes itself down into a comparative trickle between towering limestone cliffs. The Ramparts becomes a bottleneck during the spring break up when 6-foot vertical chunks of dirty block ice grind into the limestone banks. Narrow canyon ...

88円 There has not been a plane in weeks. It is break up in the Arctic. This is 1966 in Fort Norman on Deh Cho, the McKenzie River in the NWT, Canada. I am a little girl sitting on the banks of this mighty river with every other kid in town. Our ears strain for the sounds of cracking ice that will ind...

118円 Out with the old and slide into the new. My two brothers and I stand shivering at the school door. Winds howl off of the snow swept rock that stands guard above the school. Willy wags wing gusts of powered snow into the corner that we huddle. Frigid fingers tear and tug at our faces and pull on o...

118円 We are going to see Nan and Grandpa for Christmas! We are flying outside, I can hardly believe it! I have not seen my grandparents for three years. These are my paternal grandparents they live in Lethbridge Alberta, Canada; we live in Fort Good Hope N.W.T., also in Canada. It is 1,500 miles to tr...

118円 Something is wrong. It feels like I have just crawled into bed and closed my eyes after a long night of babysitting, a loud scream is piercing my ears and my brain is commanding that I pry open my heavy, heavy eye lids. I am having the most amazing dream of flashing sunlight dancing off of calm b...

88円 Summer is gone, fading quickly into fall and falling faster into winter. School has begun once again. Older students return to schools in the big “cities” of Inuvik, Yellowknife and Fort Smith NWT. There had been doubt that we would have a second teacher for the grades three, four and five kids. ...

118円 Grab her, quick, grab her, she runs fast!” I twist and turn; the fur rips on my long parkie. “NO!” I break away and run for an opening in the crowd, I sprint for the narrow escape route, someone knows my tactics, a leg is stretched out and I am tripped. With a hard whoosh the air is knocked out o...

118円 ‘LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT AND RIGHT…girls, girls keep your eyes to the front, don’t look at your feet!’ ‘And once again, left, right, left, right and split.’ “ No, NO! “ By now the scratchy old 45-vinyl record has run out of brass instruments and drums. Round and round the needle scratches out chalkboar...

88円 From the village of Fort Norman on the McKenzie River we are taking the junction at the Bear River on our quest to reach Fort Franklin on Great Bear Lake. It is about 100 miles (it’s the old days) by canoe to Franklin. This little hamlet is part of my father’s jurisdiction as Indian Agent. He has...

118円 Pierre Elliott Trudea is the Prime Minister of Canada. He will be doing a tour of the Arctic. The buzz around here is that he may be coming to Coppermine N.W.T., for a visit. Nothing has been confirmed, everyone is in a tizzy, we must do something special for the Prime Minister of Canada. What do...