Celebration
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Home Coming Celebrationed every 2 years
August 2 - 7, 2005.
Kitchenuhmaykoosib (formerly Big Trout Lake) is an isolated aboriginal community located approximately 440 kilometres northeast of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. The community is situated on the north shore of Big Trout Lake, which is the headwater of the Fawn River flowing into Hudson Bay.
Kitchenuhmaykoosib was not a year-round community before contact. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (Big Trout Lake people) were scattered in small groups throughout the area and lived entirely off the land by hunting, trapping, and fishing. The aboriginal way of life began to change quite dramatically when the ........
> Hudson's Bay Company built a trading post in 1830
> Anglican Church of Canada built a church in 1875
> Ontario government inposed game laws in 1924
> Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug signed addmission to treaty in 1929
> Department of Lands and Forests instituted trapline registration in 1947
> Government delivered services, a school, and a medical facility starting in 1947
Special Entertainment for Homecoming 2005
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And some of the Best Toe tapping fiddle music you will ever hear
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Homecoming
Bingo
$ 50.000 special
10 days only July 20 to July 30
18 to view card
$200.00 after August 1, 1-12 to view card = $ 250.00
for information in how you make your purchase for outside communities
Call Noah Chapman
(807) 537-2291
(807) 537-2311
Irene Mckay
(807) 537- 2459
leave message
These 2 people will give you all information needed
Homecoming 2005
Friday, August 5
Contest for:
- best dressed traditional man
- best dressed traditional woman
- best dressed traditional woman
- baby show
( 3 categories-best tikinagan, best baby wrap, best dressed)
Contestants are expected to wear clothes that were worn during the 1929 treaty days.
So start preparing your wardrobe
e.g. Men - suit - hat - shirt, wrap around moccasins & rubber slip-ons.
Women - Traditional dress, shawl, scarf, stockings, wrap around moccasins & rubber slip-ons
Cash Prizes to be won
for more information call Lillian S or Lillian N. at H.C.C.P. office 537-2572