Kugluktukmiut are grieving the loss of a man who possessed tremendous knowledge of the land and held enormous respect for its wildlife.

Jorgen Bolt died on May 20 at age 59, following a battle with cancer.

Allen Niptanatiak, whose family often visited Bolt and his father, Charlie, at an outpost camp in their younger days, said he will remember Jorgen for SA国际影视传媒渉is passion for being out on the land and caring for wildlife.SA国际影视传媒�

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Stanley Carpenter got to know Jorgen as a fellow hunting and fishing guide in the late 1980s.

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Carpenter remembered when Jorgen led him by snowmobile into the NWT for the first time. He said Jorgen projected confidence and put him at ease.

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Peter Taptuna knew Jorgen for most of his life.

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Jorgen contributed greatly to a number of traditional knowledge projects such as the oral history of place names and various wildlife studies, said Taptuna.

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It was Taptuna, while Premier, who nominated Jorgen as a member of the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board. The board accepted him in February 2017 and, in a Facebook post, expressed its admiration of his personality, vibrant smile and positive energy, in addition to his mastery as a hunter, trapper and guide.

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Niptanatiak added that Jorgen, a father of four, SA国际影视传媒渓oved sharing and passing on his knowledge.SA国际影视传媒�

Speaking to Nunavut News in January 2018 about his iglu-building instruction to high school students, Jorgen said, SA国际影视传媒淚 like when kidsSA国际影视传媒� eyes light up when they learn something new, especially with our tradition.SA国际影视传媒�

He reflected his own trips on the land, starting around age eight or nine, and learning survival skills from his father: navigating by the moon and stars, hunting, and building shelters.

"You have to be able to provide shelter for your family," he said in 2018. "If you can't do it, you're not going to be able to survive in the cold winter... That's just the way a young man was supposed to be brought up. He was supposed to be able to build an iglu and be able to hunt."