Northern Games Society

All Northern Games Sewing participants who took a kit, please bring your completed sewings to Billie Lennie at the Northern Games office at the Inuvik Welcome Centre by 6pm for judging 🧵🪡

***Updates to the daily schedule for Day 5 of the Northern Games. Coaches - please update your participants and help them prepare for a good last day at the Games***
Come to the Pavilion now to register for Swing Kick for Jr Females and Open Female
RIGHT AFTER we will have the Open Men’s Knuckle Hop
THEN
Men’s Team Tea Boiling (one youth, one adult, one Elder)
Women’s Fish Cutting (bring your knife)
Mixed Team Beaver Cutting (one skinner, one flesher, one youth- bring your knives)
Open Maktak Eating (raw maktak, bring your own ulu)

Welcome to Day 5 of the 55th Annual Northern Games, and the last day of full games events! Tomorrow is our closing ceremonies and cleanup.

See schedule below (subject to change and we will post if it does). Our nighttime entertainment is the Traditional Dress Fashion Show!

Today we have a HEAT WARNING in place for Inuvik, with a forecast reaching +35 degrees today, with the temperatures highest between 2 - 10 pm.

WATER, SHADE, SUNBLOCK, HATS, REST, & COMMUNICATE YOUR NEEDS!

Volunteers come out and provide more hands around the cook shacks that would be amazing, as the folks can easily overheat and overexhaust themselves today.

Jr Male Tug of War on now! Still time to register a team of 5 for Open Male Tug of War for right after!

All participants registered for Open Women’s Head Pull, please come to the Pavilion now the competition is about to start! Open Men’s competition on deck for when the Jr Males finish.

Good luck to all the athletes!

Welcome to Day 4 of the 55th Annual Northern Games! See schedule below (subject to change based on the heat, and thaw times of the animals, etc). Jigging contes tonight!

Today we have a HEAT WARNING in place for Inuvik, with a forecast reaching +33 degrees today, with the temperatures highest between 3 - 10 pm.

WATER, SHADE, SUNBLOCK, HATS, REST, & COMMUNICATE YOUR NEEDS!

If volunteers would like to come out and provide more hands around the cook shacks that would be amazing, as the folks can easily overheat and overexhaust themselves today.

Reminder all livestreams can be found on the Inuvialuit Communications Society page! We will reshare to this page when we have time, but if wondering where they are that is where you will find them!

For an official LOST & FOUND:

Please drop off found items or check for lost items with the Northern Games Office that is located through the doors on the Inuvik Welcome Centre boardwalk.

If no one is there look for a committee member to get the word out.

TODAY — a mother is looking for her son’s BLACK BACKPACK with red jump man on the front, that contains a special WHITE ATIKLUQ with black tusks. This young man is a dedicated up & coming athlete. Please keep an eye out or ask your kids if they have seen and contact our page or Alison Lennie if found

Another beautiful day to play Northern Games in Inuvik! All athletes come on down to Chief Jim Koe Park, have your breakfast and we’ll get started with the Men’s Swing Kick Junior and Open.

Day 3 of the 55th Annual Regional Northern Games of the Western Arctic!

Athletes make your way to Chief Jim Koe and let’s get our first few games going today!

The way the games go - we are trending at running behind schedule but it’s all a part of it and what we always expect with our games! Late night sunder the midnight sun together is what it’s all about.

ICS will be live for some of the first few events, then again for the airplane and one foot kick later today.

A reminder to all that ICS and the NGS have both agreed to intentionally limit live-streaming to key events, in order to encourage more people to come down in person to the games and cheer on the athletes, support the games by buying food and 50/50s, and overall be part of this community gathering!

July 24, 2024
Inuvik, NT

Old Time Dance and Square Dance happening NOW at Chief Jim Koe Park, featuring Northern Games musicians from Ulukhaktok!

Come on down and wear your slippers!

Some updates to the nighttime entertainment:

Jigging contest has been moved from Tuesday to Thursday

Tuesday the Ulukhaktok fiddlers and musicians will play for us

Wednesday will feature performance by Dene Drummers

55th Annual Northern Games – Event Program Northern Games Society Presents: The 55th Annual Northern Games Iñuuvik, NT — July 22-27, 2024

Right on Qakuq! Great grandson of Norma and Paul Voudrach. He attended the games with his parents and was part of the Inuvik Community Corporation’s 10 and under team!