Louisa Meeko and Caroline Mickiyuk, Community Access Program (CAP) coordinators, are transmitting history into every home in Sanikiluaq with a television.
They’re using the Najuqsivik Daycare TV studio and CAP site computers to do so.
Meeko and Mickiyuk scanned photographs of people in the community from 1938 and broadcast them on the local station. The photos are from the Carnegie Museumin Pittsburgh.
Elders are invited to phone the station and discuss the identification of individuals in the photos. Once information is gathered, the images will form a community historical yearbook.
A new $10,000 colour laser printer purchased for the CAP and Najuqsivik Programs is making the yearbook project a lot more fun. Caroline Mickiyuk, left, and Louisa Meeko said having good tools makes life easier.
Annie Appaqaq, an Elder in Sanikikuaq, watches the pictures come across her television in the hopes of seeing something from her own past.
A man in a traditional Belcher Island eider skin parka is the subject of one picture yet to be identified. It was taken in August 1938.
Meeko and Mickiyuk expect it will take some time to identify everyone in this photo but they hope with the help of the community it will all come together.
Photos courtesy of Louisa Meeko and Caroline Mickiyuk.