Sunday, June 21, 2020 marked the 24th Year of the National Indigenous Peoples Day celebration.
All Indigenous People celebrate this special day throughout Canada.
In Nunatsiavut, we contacted both communities of Nain and Hopedale to find out who the lucky winners were for this year’s celebrations.
In Nain the Traditional Dressed went to Betsy Lidd she won herself a $150 gift certificate from Tracy’s Wool and Things.
And for the Hunting/Fishing stories, Claude Sheppard won himself a new rod, reel, line and hook.
And the 3 lucky winners for the children’s coloring contest went to Desmond Tuglavina, Wyatt Tuglavina and Elaina Dicker Harris who all won $25 each.
The Family Scavenger Hunt winners were Robert Ford and family who won a $150 gift certificate from Northern, and the winner of the Northern Games went to Josephine Semigak she won $150 worth of gas or oil at Woodward’s.
In Hopedale, for the throat singing challenge, the winners were Alexandra Tug and Layla Rice who won themselves some art supplies, backpacks donated by Aboriginal Day Headstart, and a $100 gift certificate from Franks.
For “what makes you proud to be Inuk”, the winner was Sybil Hunter who won herself a $100 gift certificate from Woodward’s Ltd. Oil.
For the traditional contest, the winner was Hannah Winters who won herself a traditional Inuit drum made by Ross Flowers.
In the Traditional recipe challenge, the winner was Juliana Flowers who won a pair of moose hide beaded slippers and a pin.
The grand prize draw for the daily online challenges for the barbecue that was donated by the Hopedale ICG went to Dawn Winters.
