witchlinblue
12-28-2005, 03:39 AM
Nunavut using hunting, culture to curb violent crime
Dec 25 2005
CNews
By BOB WEBER
IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) - This morning they were young offenders, breathing the stale air of jail.
This afternoon they are hunters, zooming over the snowy tundra in snowmobiles and sleds.
Rifles sit beside them. Caribou skins wrap them to ward off the cold. It is December, when the sun never rises more than a hand's breadth above the horizon.
Together with two employees from the jail, the four young men scan the snow and stony hills for caribou, wolves, polar bears, ptarmigan - anything worth shooting.
Read whole article (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/12/25/1367833-cp.html)
Dec 25 2005
CNews
By BOB WEBER
IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) - This morning they were young offenders, breathing the stale air of jail.
This afternoon they are hunters, zooming over the snowy tundra in snowmobiles and sleds.
Rifles sit beside them. Caribou skins wrap them to ward off the cold. It is December, when the sun never rises more than a hand's breadth above the horizon.
Together with two employees from the jail, the four young men scan the snow and stony hills for caribou, wolves, polar bears, ptarmigan - anything worth shooting.
Read whole article (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/12/25/1367833-cp.html)