CANADA, Nunavut – Inuit women out hunting
Inuit people are really quite amazing, and for sure they are resourceful and resilient – and their elders are no exception! I made this portrait of two elderly Inuit women while they were out hunting caribou for subsistence on a quad. I mean, hats off to these strong women who, despite their age, ride for hours a four-wheeled bike on bumpy dirt roads looking for caribou for dinner! And when they find one, they pull out their rifle, kill the animal and then pull it up whole on their quad to take it back home for cooking. Wow, talk about driving down to the grocery store… 😉
As mentioned on an earlier post, Inuit are one of the three groups of Aboriginal people who live in the Canadian Arctic (the other two groups being First Nations and Métis): Inuit speak a language called Inuktitut (Inuit is an Inuktitut word which means “the people“) and some of them also speak English (not these two ladies, though!)
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Awesome!
Yes, dear Stefano – hats off to these incredible women! What a life, such a contrast to ours. 😳 And they look sooooo content. 😄
Love to you all from the airport, have to rush
Dina xo
Hats off to these tough women, and to you also for the great portrait! 🙂
Now there’s a couple ladies that you don’t want to mess with! A trip to the grocery store somehow seems so mundane now 😉
That’s awesome!
I am drawn into this photograph Stefano, which for me makes it the very best sort of image. The portrait chimes so well with what you say about these women’s lives’ that I can see them in my mind’s eye out hunting for food. 😉
Fantastic photograph – resilience at its best.
Beautiful. I mean, look at these features….just incredible.
Such remarkable women, Stefano. Theirs is such a hard life but I bet they wouldn’t change it for the world. Thanks for sharing them with us.
Great post about the innuit group… I really enjoyed to learn about these aboriginal people who live in the Canadian Arctic, as I didn’t know about them
Thanks for sharing, best regards, Aquileana 😀