Inuvik students bag two moose as part of on-the-land program

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/inuvik-moose-hunt-east-three-1.4303736

Elementary and secondary school students in Inuvik, N.W.T., took in a unique experience as part of the community's on-the-land programming: bagging a moose, learning how to butcher it, and, ultimately, sharing the meat with their classmates.

Take a look at all the steps of the harvest — from the land to the school — in our gallery:
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East Three Secondary School students pose with their moose. Elementary and secondary students both take part in one hunt each fall in Inuvik, but it's rare for both groups to be successful in the same year.
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Elementary school children pose with their moose, along with hunter Jimmy Kalinek (left).
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Grade seven students at East Three Secondary School work on the ribs of the harvested moose.
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The harvesting program is administered by Jimmy Kalinek, who shot the moose, and Mathew Miller, East Three's vice-principal and on the land coordinator.
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Rowena Conley, left, and Amber Lennie-Ipana take a break from butchering their catch to mug for the camera.
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Grade seven students at East Three butcher the moose. About 120 students in grades seven, eight, and nine got to take home some meat as part of the project.
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Joseph Moore and Jared Day show off the finished product: bags full of moose leg, ready to be taken home.
 
Yep they are one-up on most other students. Try and get that approved in a non-native area and see the PTA or whatever drop a load in their pants in horror.

Good on this school board for making this happen. It's not just cultural: this is an important skill. When they mature into adults they may decide not to participate in hunting but at least they learned the valuable skills all the same.
 
It is shocking that so many Canadians think meat comes from the store.

When I lived in Newfoundland, the only meat we had in the freezer was the moose and fish we got for ourselves. And we sure didn't think we were suffering. Nothing wrong with moose, trout and flounder.

In Northern Ontario, meat is available in the store, but many, many families use a deer or moose in the freezer to provide most of their meat.

So how to gut, transport and store a downed animal is an important skill to pass on.
 
FLHTCUI said:
Man, those ribs are making me hungry !
Does Alberta still teach the hunting course in regular curriculum in jr.High ???
Rob
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I fondly remember taking the Alberta Hunter Training course many years ago in junior high. It was great! Not sure if they still offer it or not? I have a feeling it has been eliminated but hope I'm wrong...........
 
Interesting to see what could have been...I put together pretty much the same thing for the First Nations community I taught on many years ago in northern Ontario. However, there was not enough community support to make it actually happen while I was there. Interestingly enough, I read about it in the Red Star a few years after I left...they took kids out on my program and went moose hunting. Pravda thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
 
Its about dang time the news has a good story about native youth in Canada. Teaching them about the land and being self sufficient go so much further then hammering into them that all the inequities native people face is from the oppression of white and their privilege.
 
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