{"id":79624,"date":"2025-08-18T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79624\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:22:09","slug":"group-plans-trek-along-familys-traditional-migration-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79624\/","title":{"rendered":"Group plans trek along family\u2019s traditional migration route"},"content":{"rendered":"

The journey is about 200 kilometres. The group will fly into Baker Lake, then take a chartered plane to a place called Kittikat. From there, they plan to hike in a roughly southerly direction for three weeks until they reach Amarulik, which Uyagaqi Kabloona said means \u201cthe place where there are wolves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amarulik is near Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd.\u2019s Meadowbank Complex. Thomas Kabloona, with the help of Agnico Eagle, plans to pick the group up and return them to Baker Lake once they are finished.<\/p>\n

Historical migrations were well planned, Uyagaqi Kabloona said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not shooting myself into the middle of nowhere,\u201d she said, describing glacial eskers that will take the group more than halfway along the route.<\/p>\n

Eskers are \u201cglacier-made highways\u201d of sediment ridges left behind by the polar ice caps when they retreated after the last Ice Age.<\/p>\n

The group has deposited a cache of food and fuel about halfway along the route. Uyagaqi Kabloona said she picked an arbitrary spot \u201cin the middle\u201d of the journey for the cache, but when her family members went to drop it off they discovered there were already inuksuks almost exactly in that area.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s really important to Gayle to do this trip,\u201d said her partner, Erik Reid. \u201cIf it\u2019s important to her, it\u2019s important to me. It\u2019s something that no one has really done for like 60 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reid said he has never embarked on such a long hike but looks forward to the challenge.<\/p>\n

Uyagaqi Kabloona\u2019s father, 75, was born on the land. He\u2019s provided the co-ordinates of his birthplace to the group, and they will hike to that spot along the way.<\/p>\n

Once finished, Uyagaqi Kabloona plans to write a book about the trip and the history of her family\u2019s migrations.<\/p>\n

It will involve \u201ctelling stories about what people\u2019s lives used to be like,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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