A pickup truck driving along one of the snow and ice covered roads near the school.
The yellowish white mobile building is the offices of the Tataskweyak Education Authority that manages the school. Behind the office building is a log building. The log building was being used as a classroom by students who were completing the construction of the building as part of their studies.
Tataskweyak Metawekamik Centre with the indoor hockey rink inside.
Winter view of the Split Lake Cree First Nation Band Office.
Split Lake Anglican Church
Split Lake Nursing Station
The blood on the snow is where a dog had just been shot and killed.
The dogs that run free around any First Nations Reserve provide a useful service. They bark a warning and usually chase away any wild animals or unfamiliar people that wander into the reserve. But the population of dogs can increase rapidly in the absence of any form of birth control. It therefore becomes necessary for someone to shoot and kill a few of the dogs every once in a while to keep the population under control. Otherwise at times of the year such as March, when the available food supply may be low, there is a danger that the dogs might form together into packs and kill a person. Killing a few dogs also reduces the number of territorial dog fights that take place within the reserve. I witnessed a number of dogs running around Split Lake on only three usable legs because of injuries they suffered in fights with other dogs. I would estimate that the life span of a dog on the Split Lake Reserve was probably only about three years.
Children playing street hockey on the packed snow and ice covered street in front of their home.
A typical view of a residential street in the winter time.
The M.V. Joe Keeper ferry boat surrounded by ice.
You can line up in your vehicle here to take the ferry boat to York Landing but it may be a long wait before you depart.
The Split Lake community shoreline. This is the view when returning from York Landing on the winter road across the frozen lake.
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