https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it This is a place to teach your NS classmates how your community developed. We've provided you with 3 sample windows to get you started...but you need to change these and add your own. Figure out how to represent the growth of your community by adding places, re-arranging the timeline, and finding or taking your own photos and videos. en-us 2021-10-06 12:20:47 UTC 2025-10-08 22:18:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1800830694 2021-10-07 19:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1800830694 https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1806730266 Samuel Hearne arrives at the mouth of the Coppermine River. Samuel was a colonial explorer and fur trader. Witnessed the massacre 15km up-river at what is known as the "Bloody Falls." There was what is described as a bloodbath of fighting between local Inuit and Chipewyan people.


]]> 2021-10-11 05:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1806730266 https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1806744811  Inuit living around the fishing and sealing camp changed with the newly setup trading post. ]]> 2021-10-11 05:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1806744811 https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1809754497 In 1978 the Bloody Falls was named a National historic site and today is now part of the Kugluk Territorial Park. They are mainly referred to as "the falls" by our community members.]]> 2021-10-12 05:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1809754497 https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1809777071 The RCMP Station was established and federal government got their foot in the door in Kugluktuk. (then Coppermine) With the outpost they had a larger presence in the community.]]> 2021-10-12 05:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1809777071 https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1809794623 In the late 90's and early 00's we had the highest suicide rates in Nunavut. A teacher, Russ Sheppard came to Kugluktuk and with very low attendance and even lower graduation rates among student's he created the local lacrosse team with the incentive to be on the team you had to be in school. The story is more than just a sport.]]> 2021-10-12 06:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1809794623 https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1817414184 The name Kugluktuk means "the place of moving water" and the word Kugluk is a part of the other name, the name means "waterfall". ]]> 2021-10-14 15:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1817414184 https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1817427412 We were named this for our making of tools. The Inuit had found Copper along the shores which they used to make the tools. So the people that had come here (explorers) named us Coppermine because of all the copper we had in the Coppermine river. ]]> 2021-10-14 15:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1817427412 https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1817445597 The original people who lived here were called the Dene people. The Dene had chosen to live here because of all the resources it had for food, such as fish, caribou, etc. The Dene are the people known to have had conflict with the Thule people. This had continued for a long time until they both held a sacred ceremony, which help them become close with one another once again. This event took place in 1996.]]> 2021-10-14 15:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nunavutsivuniksavut/dner3v0i723fx4it/wish/1817445597