Members of the NTI delegation in France, including Steve Mapsalak, wearing a light blue shirt (left), Aluki Kotierk and David Aglukark Jr. wearing a dark blue shirt (right) leave the Ministry of Justice in Paris on Tuesday evening. (Photo by Emma Tranter)
Inuit delegation left with frustration after meeting with officials from French justice ministry
PARIS — Anger, sadness, frustration. Those were the feelings seen on the faces of an Inuit delegation in Paris as they emerged from a meeting with Ministry of Justice officials Tuesday evening.
The sun rises over Cambridge Bay on Sept. 4 in this photo taken by hamlet resident Jamie Taipana. In early September, sunrises occur at about 5:40 a.m., according to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s historic weather information. By mid-September — on Sept. 13 — sunrise is coming nearly a full half-hour later at 6:07 a.m. (Photo by Jamie Taipana, special to Nunatsiaq News)