This page will host a few favourite articles I’ve published in my time at Northern News Services and in other media. (Depending on copyright.)
I urge everyone to check out www.nnsl.com and the Northern News Services publications, which provide excellent content every week.
Note: While the paper does sell its back issues as yearly PDFs, all these articles are available in the free online archives in text form.
(The story of the Mad Trapper of Rat River being unearthed for a documentary last summer. This is a piece of Delta history!)
(A quick note about Neil Colin of Fort McPherson, who is also a storyteller on Northwind.)
A feature on traditional piercing and facial tattoos among the Inuvialuit people.
3 responses so far ↓
Robbie Pascal // August 16, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Mad Trapper story I read from the “Up Here” magazine. Word in there was that someone in Aklaska, who passed away in the 70’s, wrote in his journal that he was the man they were after. He wrote that he snuck into a couple of trapper’s camp and traded his showshoes for one of their ski’s. So they continued to follow the snowshoe tracks and shot the wrong man. He figgers the RCMP either didn’t know that or were too embarassed to admit they shot the wrong man. I can’t remember the year or date of the magazine, but if you can access the oldies, it’s at the rear of the magazine. I forgot to tell my friend Carrie, who did the documentary.
Phil Morin // August 26, 2008 at 4:31 pm
All good legends leave something ambiguous in the end…so perhaps, he’s still out there metaphorically.
What a great story.
Erin G // September 12, 2008 at 3:18 am
re: the tattooing and piercing piece- in the Eastern arctic, I recall someone telling me that Inuit women (the Sallimiut Inuit of the high Eastern arctic) who were considered particularly physically attractive (especially as potential wives and mothers) would be tattooed as an adornment or tribute to their beauty. One would imagine that as the woman grew older, and her physical attractiveness began to fade, the tattoos would serve as beauty marks, a reminder or codifier that she was considered one of the most beautiful women of her time.
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