10-year-old Ava Nipisar shot her first polar bear while hunting with her father Sean Nipisar.
Sean Nipisar said his daughter kept asking when they could go hunting as soon as they received their tags to hunt a polar bear.Ava Nipisar lay in the snow, watching quietly from behind a rifle outside of her home community of Whale Cove, Nunavut. Through the scope, Nipisar watched a polar bear slowly making its way over the thin sea ice.
Her grandmother passed away from cancer a month ago. Ava said she knows her grandmother would be proud of her. "That's part of our culture," Sean said. "I try and teach my kids young and that you can do anything right? Like that was my goal, right for all my kids. It was the father and daughter thing. Special."Ava Nipisar and her father Sean got their tags this fall and headed out on the land in late November. It took time until they spotted a bear, but once it was off the ice, then it was time to shoot.
The view from Ava Nipisar's scope ahead of her hunt of a polar bear outside Whale Cove, Nunavut. "It was really heavy to lift up the head, the feet were heavy too," Ava said.Ava Nipisar said the bear is about twice her size, being about 10-feet long. Nipisar said she was thinking about her grandmother during the hunt. Sean hopes one day Ava can share the traditions with her own children.
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