Issue 4 March 8 2016

4 – March 8 2016 ULU NEWS

By: Malu Pedersen Name: Jada Lea What’s the worst? ulunews@awg2016 Age: 16 I haven’t had a worst yet. I like everything Team: Alberta North so far. Volleyball How did you prepare for AWG2016? How has your Arctic Winter Games I haven't really prepared myself. I was too been so far? excited to do anything. I started packing Arctic Winter Games 2016 It’s been really fun. It’s such a new experi- a day before. But I prepared myself men- Mail: [email protected] ence, and socializing and talking with dif- tally by trying to imagine what it would Phone: (+299) 382016 ferent people around the world is really be like. Adress: Imaneq 32, 1. th. cool. P.O. Box 1050 How much do you practice each week? 3900 Nuuk How do you like Nuuk? Together as a team, we haven’t practiced It’s so pretty. It’s so cute. Every house has every week, because we have other vol- Editors: Poul Krarup, Naja Paulsen & Arnakkuluk Kleist different colors. I love it. leyball teams to be on. So we practiced Publisher: AWG2016, Sermitsiaq.AG and together twice before. the Ilisimatusarfik School of Journalism How did you like the opening cere- E-mail: [email protected] monies? Have you made some new friends? Mobile: +299 55 19 02 The opening ceremony was very up-beat I have met a lot of people, from Alaska, and I liked that there was a big stage and Northwest Territories and Yukon, I think. Ulu News is the official daily publication for the Arctic Winter Games. During the performers were dancing. I really liked AWG2016, Ulu News will be available for the dancing. Aside from sports, what have you download at www.awg2016.gl each day experienced so far? by 8am. Printed copies of the Sunday, What is the best experience you’ve The dancing and the performing during March 6 edition and Thursday, March 10 edition will also be available. The first had during AWG2016? the opening ceremony. And meeting AWG2016 edition was published in Uhm ... trading pins and talking with some people who are here just to play October 2015. people from places like Alaska, Northwest music. Territories. Sharing stories and stuff.

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A s r c e t www.royalgreenland.com i m c a W G www.royalgreenland.gl inter Arctic Winter Games 2016 03 Alberta North won its opening game against Nunavut in the boys’ bantam tournament Photo: Trine Juncher Jørgensen Jørgensen Juncher Trine Photo: Faceoff The first four matches in Team Alberta North faced off against berta North, so I’m okay satisfied with Nunavut in Iqaluit in the first hockey ga- the first match,” Carlsen said. the hockey competition mes of AWG2016 yesterday. Alberta North meets Yukon and were played yesterday In the AWG arena the bantam boys Alaska today, and, according to Carlsen, in two arenas in Iqaluit. from Alberta North met Team Nunavut. the team will be concentrating on get- The match ended 10-3 to the guests ting more shots on goal than they did For team Alberta North it from Alberta North. against Nunavut. was a first step towards Alberta North coach Mike Carlsen “Team Alaska are favorites to win, getting back to the finals was satisfied with the result. but we will give them a good fight. Two “The team has only had about four years ago the final was between Alaska By Trine Juncher Jørgensen hours of ice time together. The boys and Alberta North,” he said. [email protected] come from many different places in Al- Photo: Trine Juncher Jørgensen Jørgensen Juncher Trine Photo:

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By Malik Brøns (text and photos) With an unexpected training day in the Out on the biathlon course, we asked ulunews@awg2016 program today, most AWG2016 athletes the coaches and some of the participants were out getting in a final training run, about how the preparations were going. getting adjusted to their venues and te- sting their equipment.

Biathlon The biathlon ski and biathlon snowshoe events consist of four disciplines: interval start, mass start, relay and a sprint event. There are two age classes (junior and juvenile) for each of the two genders. In a biathlon competition, contestants ski around a cross-country course and have either two or four shooting rounds, half in half lying down, the other half standing. Depending on the shooting performance, extra distance or time is added to the contestant's total running distance/time. The contestant with the shortest total time wins. During AWG2016, the biathlon competition will be held at Qinngorput, near AHL School.

06 ULU NEWS no. 2 – March 6 2016 Team Alberta North Michael Morgan Why the squirrel mascot? The squirrel is a territorial animal, so we put it here to assert our territory (laughs). What are your plans for today? Getting familiar with the site and being active. We’re also adjusting our rifles. They’ve been in the containers and they need to be adjusted. And choosing the wax for the skis. How is the course here compared to yours at home? Our courses have more mountains and more trees, but the course here is great overall. They’ve done awesome work here, we know how much work there is involved in making a course, and they’ve done really well.

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Arctic Winter Games 2016 07 Team Yukon Aidan Adel What do you think about the course? It’s small and flat, there are no hills, which we’re used to. But the snow is good and the course is nice. What are your plans for today? Today we’re mainly training and getting to know the course. We haven’t had a break day because of the delayed flights.

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08 ULU NEWS no. 4 – March 8 2016 Yukon Micah Hildes What do you think about the course? It’s pretty good, it’s flat. We heard that there had been problems with a lack of snow, but it seems to be really good now.

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Edgar Musonda coaching his team yesterday in Godthåbhallen field house

Entering a new world

Futsal is still a foreign Team Yukon’s indoor soccer players are up in November, for example, but in a ter- entering a new world here in Nuuk. Not ritory of 37,000, it will take a while before word for many of the only geographically, but also when it it takes hold. AWG2016 indoor soccer comes to their sport. “The teams that are playing in the lea players AWG2016 is the first time the indoor gue are getting better slowly. And we will soccer event will be played according to use the competition here in Greenland as futsal rules, a particular South American a way to help us to see the level we have variant of the sport that is common in now and see what we need to work on,” By Noah Mølgaard Greenland. Musonda said. [email protected] “We’d never heard about futsal befo- Greenland won gold in the junior boys’ re,” Edgar Musonda, the Yukon junior tournament two years ago in Fairbanks. boys coach, said. Alaska won silver and NWT beat Yukon Instead of the physical contact and for the bronze. sliding tackles of North American indo- “We have high expectations. We want or soccer, futsal, according to Musonda, to play in the semifinals and finals. We requires more ball skills. The ball is also know the other teams are tough, but we bigger and heavier. hope that we can compete,” Musonda Yukon has been playing futsal since says. September to get ready for AWG2016. In addition to Yukon, Alaska, Alberta Getting used to the new style took about North, Greenland, Nunavut, NWT and a month, Musonda said. Sapmi will be vying for the futsal title. The As the players have learned the game, four best teams in round-robin play ad- futsal has become more popular in vance to the semifinals on Thursday and Yukon. A new five-team league was set the finals will be played Friday.

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AWG_Brugseni_Ulu_News.indd 1 19/01/16 09.25 Drying frame-souvenirs from inmates

When you think about inmates in prison, Brølund, had a reputation for making Inmates at Nuuk’s the last thing that comes to mind is han- crafts with Greenlandic designs. minimum-security dicrafts. But for AWG2016, the inmates Brølund and an assistant, Mala Paka- prison created gifts at Nuuk’s minimum-security prison were nak, and about 40 or so inmates have asked to make gifts that can be given to been working the past few months to for AWG2016’s distinguished guests this week. make the 12 miniature drying frames for distinguished guests “They have ambitions just like the rest sealskins and miniature hunters’ tools of us, even if their reputations have been that will be given away. hurt by bad choices they have made in “I’ve never imagined being a part of an the past,” said Abigael M. Johansen, a event this big. It’s an honor,” Brølund said. By Ane-Marie Petersen prison employee. “Some of them didn’t know they were ulunews@awg2016 It was Johansen’s idea to ask the inma- good at making things before they were tes to make gifts. She knew, for example, given the chance to something they cared that one of them, a man named Mikkel about,” Johansen said.

More than just crafts In addition to making crafts, inmates at the minimum- security prison have helped get Nuuk ready for AWG2016 by: Fixing up the volunteer-center building Putting labels on 2,200 sleeping bags Marking ski routes Production of point sticks for the Arctic sports and Dene Games competitions Establishing sleeping halls at Atuarfik Samuel Kleinschmidt School

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Arctic Winter Games 2016 15 Photo: Leiff Josefsen Photo: With a little help from my friends One of the special When the Arctic Sport competition gets how they teach and if you can commu- under way today at Nuussuup Gym today, nicate exactly what needs to be done or traditions of the don’t be surprised if you see the Alaska corrected. The best way you can do that Arctic-sport competition coach giving good advice to an NWT ath- is to give constructive criticism, not by is that coaches help lete. The tradition, though unheard of in saying, don’t do this or that.” other sports, is common in Arctic sports, Johnston is herself a record-holder in athletes, no matter and participants consider it a regular and the two-foot high-kick, an accomplish- where they come from important part of the event. ment she achieved in Slave Lake during “Traditionally, and I think still today, AWG1994. Being an official allows her to survive in the Arctic you have to able to keep giving to the sport – and get- to rely on another people to do their ting something from it. By Noah Mølgaard best so you can survive,” said Nicole “A lot of the skills the coaches and [email protected] Johnston, an Alaska Arctic Sports offi athletes get here are used outside of cial and a multiple medal winner. the sport in their everyday lives – in their The tradition of helping other athle- jobs or other places where they need tes, according to Johnston, is a way to to learn how to work with a group. We ensure that traditions are properly pas- also teach the skills you need to survive sed on to younger generations. daily life and resolve conflicts and how Winning most medals remains the pri- to help people be compassionate and mary goal, but helping and competing be constructive.” are not at odds with each other, she And if, after 22 years, her record falls says. in tonight’s competition, it may just be “It depends on the coaching style and by someone she has helped.

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18 ULU NEWS no. 4 – March 8 2016 We support a unique arctic culture and sports event

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With more than 200 years of experience sailing in the Arctic, we can say with certainty: That it is not a task for anyone – or any ship. We are the common thread that binds Greenland together. A lifeline to guarantee supplies to all of Greenland. To swap or not to swap?

It is a custom that AWG participants swap uniforms with someone from another team. Many of the participants this year say they like their uniforms too much to give them up Jon and Jodi Blaklay 43, 44, Fairbanks, Alaska

What’s the best thing about your uniform? By Marie Kuitse Kristensen The colors are bright, the jacket is warm, and we love it. [email protected] Are you planning to swap your uniform? Photo: Marie Kuitse Kristensen Maybe.

Who would you swap your uniform with? Alberta North, because I love the color and design.

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What’s the best thing about your uniform? Julianne Angulalik The best thing is the sponsors’ logos. Joanasi Arnaituq 15, Nunavut 15, Kangersujuaq Nunavik Why? What’s the best thing about your uni- Because without their support we wouldn’t What’s the best thing about your uniform? have uniforms. form? It’s my favorite color, blue. The fur. Are you planning to swap your uniform? Are you planning to swap your uniform? I’d like to, since it will be a good way to Are you planning to swap your uniform? Yes, but I don’t know yet which one. Maybe remember the other athletes. But I don’t know No. I love our uniforms. They are warm and the Alaska uniform. I like the colors. which team I’ll try to swap with. that’s why I don’t want to swap.

20 ULU NEWS no. 4 – March 8 2016 Richelle Castillo 18, NWT

What’s the best thing about your uniform? I really like our uniform because of the fur Marte Agersborg Skånhaug in the hood. John Flynn 16, Sapmi 61, Dawson City, Yukon Are you planning to swap your uni- What is the best thing about your uniform? What’s the best thing about your uniform? No, I’m not planning to swap my uniform form? I love the color. because I like it. The uniform tells about our The text ‘Yukon’, because I was born in traditional culture, where we come from. Yukon, because I grow up in Yukon and Are you planning to swap your uniform? No, but if I have to do it, I'll swap with an because I live there. What kind it fur is it? Alaskan one, because of the color. I think it is It has three different kinds of fur: the white Are you planning to swap your uniform? beautiful. is fox, the brown is coyote and the grey is Yes, I’ll try to swap with an athlete. It will But I’d rather keep my own jacket though. It’s wolf. show the friendship the Games represent. warm … and nice.

Anna Van Der Giessen 17, Bezanson, Alberta North

What’s best thing about your uniform? I like our hat the most. It looks cool. It’s warm and I love the color. Christopher Church Elias Dawson 20, Inuvik, NWT 15, Tuktoyaktuh, NWT Are you planning to swap your uniform? Yes, with Team Nunavik, because I love their What’s the best thing about your uni- What’s the best thing about your uni- hood. form? form? The white fur. It’s Arctic wolf! The color and fur What would swapping uniforms mean to you? Are you planning to swap your uniform? Are you planning to swap your uniform? It will mean a lot for me because I can keep it No! We have a special jacket with a fur! No! Because we have a special jacket. as a souvenir.

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Sponsors’ contributions make AWG2106 possible Whether it is the food A total of 43 Greenlandic businesses and bear), kissaviarsuk (falcon), tulugaq (ra- institutions are sponsors of AWG2016. ven), aqisseq (grouse). athletes eat or the Their support accounts for a third of the In total, sponsors have contributed data the smartphones Games’ budget. 22 million kroner ($3.25 million) worth chew up, a sponsor has “Greenlandic businesses are very de- of services, labor hours, discounts and dicated to AWG. It has been an immen- donations, matching the contribution probably helped make it se gift,” said Aviâja Lyberth Lennert, the of Greenland’s Self-Rule Authority and possible AWG2016 director of sponsorship. Nuuk’s municipal government. One of the biggest contributions firms Cooperative supermarket chain Brugse- have been able to make is by offering ni is one of the main AWG2016 sponsors. their services. Without them, according It has donated all dinner meals to the ath- By Martine Lind Krebs to Lennert, AWG2016 would probably letes. In addition, 30 employees will help [email protected] not have been possible. The services serve the meals. The combined value of of Air Greenland and Mittarfeqarfiit both is more than 1.5 million kroner. helping transport participants is one “The fact that we are owned by the example. Another is the internet ser- Greenlandic people almost obliges us to vices being offered by Tele-Post. contribute to the Arctic Winter Games. Sponsors are grouped according to It’s an opportunity to show that we can the size of their contribution, and named live up to the challenge by pulling to- after Greenlandic animals: nanoq (polar gether,” said CEO Susanne Christensen.

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The BANK of Greenland presents the 5 items series of Arctic Winter Games pins. Visit us at Imaneq 33.

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24 ULU NEWS no. 4 – March 8 2016 Learning by workshop

The first of this week’s During AWG2016, all of Nuuk’s schools kayaking club. are closed in order to make room for the About 20 schoolchildren attended cultural workshops visiting athletes. For many students, it will Monday’s workshop where they com- offered lessons into the be a week off, but for those interested in peted with each other and tried diffe- tradition and history of learning more about their country’s cul- rent maneuvers while holding on to the ture, the Nuuk organizing committee is strap. kayaking putting on voluntary workshops. “A lot of kids are interested, and they One of the first, held on the campus learn quick,” Inûsugtoq said. “They of Ilimarfik, involved teaching elemen- were asking us if we’d be holding similar tary-school students about Greenlandic events in the coming days.” By Gaaba Olsen kayaking traditions. One of those trying her hand at al- [email protected] One of the more dramatic of them, lunaariaqattaarpoq for the first time on known as allunaariaqattaarpoq, invol- Monday was nine-year-old Maja Jensen. ves doing acrobatic twirls while hanging “It was hard at first, but you get bet- on to a rope suspended in a frame. ter. It’s a lot of fun,” she said. “This was how hunters practiced Inûsugtoq was pleased with the tur- handling their kayak in bad weather and nout and was hoping that the interests doing rolls. Nowadays, the something the students had shown in traditional we do in front of crowds,” said Elias kayaking would keep up throughout Inûsugtoq, a coach with Qajaq, a Nuuk the week.

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Living outside the box

Just like not all Americans Mia Chemnitz knows a lot about stereo her fellow students had trouble believing types. With her red hair and freckles, she she was Greenlandic. are fat and carry guns, looks more Irish than Greenlandic. But, "People tend put others into boxes. neither are Greenlanders despite not having brown eyes, black It simplifies things. That is why people hair, dark skin or any of the other traits think that all people from the Arctic are all dark-skinned hunters typically associated with ‘Greenlanders’, Eskimos. Then they put a lid on the box the 22-year-old journalism student is as and keep people here, because they can’t Greenlandic as they come. handle the fact that other people might By Paarnaq Hansen "People wonder, whether I am really not fit into a box at all." [email protected] Greenlandic. They mistake me for being Her looks, she explained, are proof that Danish, because of my looks and fluen- Greenland is more diverse than most pe- cy in Danish,” Chemnitz, who grew up ople think. She’s hoping that AWG2016 in Sisimiut in northern Greenland, said. can help give people a different picture "However I feel Greenlandic more than of not just Greenland, but also its people. anything else. I was born and raised here. “I am trying to plant some new pictu- My parents are Greenlandic." res in people's minds – or at least inspire Chemnitz has studied in Denmark, and them to be open to new pictures,” she said that when she began studies there said.

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How do you develop 1,500 volunteers’ competences? Artic Winter Games is a fantastic event and a unique possibility for us to develop a lot of people’s competences in the Greenlandic society. Mentorix’s contribution as a Nanoq sponsor is to provide the AWG organ- isation with the tools necessary to produce courses for the volunteers. Mentorix’s Greenlandic department has made its e-learning platform available for the AWG 2016 and has in collaboration with the AWG or- ganisation made a plan for how the competence development is best executed. Mentorix is part of the AWG because it is fun and because it is important for us to contribute to the competence development in the Greenlandic society. Find us at mentorix.gl. We create courses for Greenland’s future.

28 ULU NEWS no. 4 – March 8 2016 Can a seal be athletic?

The mascot for this year’s Every Arctic Winter Games have a mascot. bit difficult was to get a seal that looked AWG is a seal inspired This year’s mascot is a Greenlandic seal athletic. Seals have short limbs, so there named Kuluk. ‘Kuluk’ is a term of endear- was quite a lot of work to make the figure by a nine-year-old girl’s ment in Kalaallisut meaning ‘dearest’. appear as if it runs. I made quite a few drawing. The biggest To come up with the mascot for sketches before coming up with the final AWG2016, the organizing committee figure.” challenge, says the artist held a national competition for primary Rex was also instructed to design Kuluk who came up with the school students in which they were asked with an Anorak on, since it is traditional final design, was to make draw their version of a mascot. Kuluk’s clothing worn in the Arctic. The design a seal look it like played name was also chosen in a national con- process involved making drafts that the SPO test. organizing committee commented and Q N Stella Josefsen, 9, from Paamiut, won which he then used to make adjustments. O S sports N O the competition, and then it was up to The final result can be seen throughout A R illustrator Christian Fleischer Rex to turn Nuuk and Iqaluit all this week.

· her drawing into a full-fledged mascot. “I am very satisfied with Kuluk’s look,”

· By Malu Pedersen “When you look at the original dra- Rex said. “And it was good that AWG A s r ulunews@awg2016 wing, and how Kuluk looks today there had a specific idea of how they wanted c e t are differences because the drawing was like the mascot to look. That makes it i m c a just a seal, and it had no clothes on. I had much easier as an illustrator to develop W G inter to make it look cartoony and give it a a figure.” distinctive look,” Rex said. In addition to the basic Kuluk design, The process took about a month. Rex Rex has also created versions of the said the most challenging part of the task mascot performing the various AWG was to make a seal that looked like it could sports. compete in the different AWG sports. The AWG mascot is always an animal. “It wasn’t so hard to get the face or The mascot for AWG2014, in Fairbanks, head to work, but what I thought was a was a raven named Raavee. How do you develop 1,500 volunteers’ competences? Artic Winter Games is a fantastic event and a unique possibility for us to develop a lot of people’s competences in the Greenlandic society. Mentorix’s contribution as a Nanoq sponsor is to provide the AWG organ- isation with the tools necessary to produce courses for the volunteers. Mentorix’s Greenlandic department has made its e-learning platform available for the AWG 2016 and has in collaboration with the AWG or- ganisation made a plan for how the competence development is best executed. Mentorix is part of the AWG because it is fun and because it is important for us to contribute to the competence development in the Greenlandic society. Find us at mentorix.gl. We create courses for Greenland’s future. Rex working on Kuluk

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Kuluk, as envisioned by Stella Josefsen

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