INUIT OLYMPICS: Games amuse, educate in Vanier's 'Little Nunavut'

A celebration of Inuit culture was hosted by the Hub Vanier featuring games like finger pull, owl hop and the one\u002D and two\u002Dfoot high kick.

Majuqtuq means “climbing or reaching for the top,” explains how Inuit men would hook their fingers inside each other’s cheeks and then pull until one gave up, a finger slipped free or … shudder … a cheek ripped.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

The traditional games come in different forms. Finger pull, for example, in which the two players wrestle using only their interlocked middle fingers, simulates the strength a hunter needs to pull a harpooned seal up through its breathing hole in sea ice. Various hopping games build the skill needed when hunting or fishing on unstable ice. Some games are meant to show off skills to a romantic interest, while others, like the high kick, are just for fun.

Stranger’s father was from Nain, Labrador, and educated at a residential school in Hebron, N.L. He was a linguist who helped author one of the first Inuktitut-English dictionaries and taught at Memorial University in St. John’s.

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