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Canada’s North can be a difficult place to live, and a much harder place to make a living as a business owner.
Yet, against all odds, a cohort of Indigenous entrepreneurs are making a go of it — and The Narwhal's northern reporter Jimmy Thomson has spent much of the past six months meeting with them in their communities for a video series we launched this week.
Jimmy's journey has taken him to all three territories, with visits to Whitehorse, Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet, Yellowknife, Mayo, Keno, Hay River and Arviat.
"The project has been a golden ticket into more kitchens than I can count (to be treated to musk ox lasagna, moose sausage, narwhal soup, raw beluga and caribou, and some spectacular coffee) and, more importantly, into the minds and workshops of these entrepreneurs," Jimmy writes in his introduction article for the series.
The stories of how these businesses began are often challenging in the ways that many stories of modern Indigenous life are challenging. There are stories of rediscovering, reasserting and protecting identity; of struggling with modernity, history and tradition; of slow internet and fast changes; of standing up to colonial attitudes about art and craft.
We're calling this series Land Crafted and we're so excited to launch the first video featuring Nooks Lindell of Arviat, Nunavut, this week.
It's been a reeeaaaallllly busy week, so keep reading for much, much more!
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