Sunday, July 1, 2007

Think yer tough? Yer not tough.


Missing for a month, Igloolik elder found alive.

"An 81-year-old elder and hunter from Igloolik was found alive Thursday, after four weeks of air and ground searches.

Searchers aboard a Twin Otter airplane spotted Enoki Kunuk near a vast fjord Thursday night.

"We found his kamotiq and snowmobile first, and then we found him beside his tent," Kunuk's son, Mathusalah Kunuk, told CBC News late Thursday....
...Enoki Kunuk left Igloolik on June 1 to embark on a caribou hunting trip about 100 kilometres north of the hamlet. When he hadn't returned home four or five days later as expected, (italics mine, expressing amazement) family and friends began searching for him...
...people in the community began having dreams about the lost elder's whereabouts.

'One particular dream did tell us that he's in a valley, his snowmobile is there,' he said.

'Nobody can see him, and we had flown over that area quite a few times. But this time around we went back to that same area, and sure enough, he's there.'"


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