Living in Glenale [Glenelg Bay?], Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

Collection

Citation

Lennie, Bessie, “Living in Glenale [Glenelg Bay?], Victoria Island, Northwest Territories,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed July 3, 2025, https://inuvialuitdigitallibrary.ca/items/show/1439.

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Title

Living in Glenale [Glenelg Bay?], Victoria Island, Northwest Territories

People

Lennie, Bessie

Date

[197-?]

Description

Bessie Lennie is telling stories of how she loved traveling around with her husband such as when they chartered a plane to Glenale, Victoria Island and lived alone there until their friends, the Inuktaliks, joined them later. She also talks of how they would walk and explore around the cliffs and saw old campsites, old graves, traps, and homes made from rocks like the igloos they made, about the abundance of wildlife that their husbands hunted therfore, she and Kanayuk were always very busy fleshing and working with the meat and hides of the animals their husbands brought home from their hunts, of sending caribou back to Ulukhaktok since their was food shortage and people were hungry there, and more.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0377

Dialect

Kangiryuarmiutun