Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut has a rich qajaqing history, though it has not been mobilized in several generations. The Qajaq Program was awarded $140,000 to revitalize this valued tradition, by connecting young people with local knowledge keepers and elders to learn how to build and paddle their own qajaqs. Through this project, the youth of Chesterfield Inlet will build hand-crafted qajaqs based on the design that was used in the area hundreds of years earlier, and will also create a special qajaq that can be shipped to other communities as a teaching resource.
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