Photo gallery: Inside the way of life in Rigolet, Labrador

Posted January 12, 2020

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Karl Michelin poses for a portrait at the water's edge of Lake Melville in Rigolet wearing a dickie made of seal skin from a seal he hunted from the bay on Nov. 13, 2019.
The Muskrat Falls hydroelectric facility, located on lower on the Churchill River and near Happy Valley-Goose Bay, is seen on Nov. 17, 2019. The area was flooded a few months ago by Nalcor, a company owned by the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Karl Michelin, of Rigolet, takes a break from dressing a jar seal he hunted in Lake Melville near Big Island where he has a hunting camp on Nov. 10, 2019. Michelin supplements much of his food source with seal meat. The meat is used to feed him and his family along with Inuit elders in the community who can no longer hunt as easily as when they were younger. Seal is a staple in the Inuit diet, a food source that is being threatened by effects of the Churchill Falls Dam that empties in to Lake Melville, one of North America's largest estuaries.
Karl Michelin eats seal liver and onions at home in Rigolet with his 2-year old daughter, Josephine, on Nov. 12, 2019. Michelin harvests about 12 seals a year that feeds his family and Inuit elders in the community.