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My first acknowledgment must actually be to a person whose only obligation was that I had picked his B& B out of the Nunavut Tourism Guide, however, for Terry Forth, who runs “the Beaches,” was a mine of helpful local information. He met me and deposited me at the airport for each of my flights in and out of Iqaluit, which were several and included a period of uncertainty when the whole of southern Ontario was blacked out during a power cut. He gave me an initial general tour of Iqaluit, with specific details about places of particular interest to me, he provided a daily weather forecast, both there, in Ontario, and back home in the United Kingdom, and he helped me to find and contact several people who proved very helpful to my research.

The story of two consecutive days in May will serve to illustrate the point. They were a Sunday and Monday, the latter set aside in Canada to celebrate the birthday of Queen Victoria. On the Six Nations Reserve, the holiday Monday is known as Bread and Cheese Day because everyone who lives there is given a sizeable chunk of bread and cheese to celebrate the way Queen Victoria annually remembered their loyalty to the British by doing just the same. Fireworks are let off the evening before, and the whole family gathered at the home of Roberta, the current chief of the elected Band Council, to sit around a bonfire and watch the show.

All three had examples of their carvings on display. An interesting smaller museum that makes a feature of providing the ‘voices of the people’, complete with names and occupations, can be found at Chief Plenty Coups State Park, former home of a man described as the ‘last traditional chief of the Crow tribe’, near Billings, Montana. The exclusively Crow voices are recorded in devices known as ‘story sticks’ which may be carried around to accompany and direct a tour of the grounds and buildings, and they explain various aspects of Crow culture and customs, as well as recounting stories, for example about how they came to be living in that part of the country.

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