Makivik Magazine Issue 102
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I’ve seen this Association literally<br />
grow into a million dollar nonprofit<br />
entity, hiring many workers<br />
and guides in the community,<br />
enriching the lives of men with<br />
cultural pride, and helping feed<br />
elders with the country food that<br />
they like to eat.”<br />
Rangers corporal), as well as elders Noah Echalook, Noah<br />
Pauloosie, Danielli Inukpuk, and Joseph Nalukturuk. A few other<br />
men also showed up at the original meetings, but not often.<br />
The Association’s original board members have been Danielli<br />
Inukpuk (president), Charlie Nowkawalk (vice-president),<br />
Tommy Palliser (treasurer), Simeonie Ohaituk<br />
(secretary), as well as Simeonie Elijassiapik,<br />
Noah Echalook and Joseph Nalukturuk serving<br />
as directors.<br />
Tommy writes: “I personally became dedicated<br />
to this cause when they came to me and asked<br />
me to become a board member in 2004, after<br />
I had graduated from Concordia. I then helped<br />
gather more funding from various sources and<br />
helped incorporate the men’s group into an official<br />
non-profit association on July 31, 2006. We then<br />
gradually grew in terms of funding and in size.<br />
“I had compassion for the young men who had<br />
difficulties with their lives, believing that working<br />
with elders, bringing back our traditions, promoting<br />
them within our community and involving<br />
the youth was my real cause and dedication to<br />
help get our Association on its feet. By creating<br />
traditional employment and activities, I felt<br />
that the self-esteem of the young men would be<br />
brought back and the place of us men would be<br />
resurrected from being overpowered by southern<br />
values and a western or modern approach to<br />
living and working in an Inuit community.<br />
“We volunteered a lot of our time to put<br />
budgets together, sitting down on the floor of<br />
the <strong>Makivik</strong> building, trying to decide what we could do to<br />
help the youth. By using cardboard and a few pencils, we put<br />
together plans, wrote down men’s phone numbers who would<br />
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Passing on the skills for making traditional kayaks.<br />
be the guides, and made a calendar of activities in relation to<br />
our budgets. I’ve seen this Association literally grow into a million<br />
dollar non-profit entity, hiring many workers and guides<br />
in the community, enriching the lives of men with cultural<br />
MAKIVIK mag a zine<br />
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