A Long Time Ago host Ishmael Alunik airs Joe Nasogaluak storytelling. Joe is telling polar bear, seal, and muskrat hunting and fishing stories from the 1930’s.
Joe Nasogaluak is storytelling a story that was already in progress about Caucasion bowhead whale hunters and more Caucasion people arriving, and about the many ways that Inuvialuit ways of life have changed since then.
Joe Nasogaluak is storytelling a story that was already in progress about first encounters with White people that arrived on a big boat. He is also telling stories about explorer Stefansson’s Expedition to the North and his interactions and…
The first part is Joe Nasogaluak talking about Stefansson's expedition in 1909-1910 among the Inuinnait. The beginning is missing. There is also an English translation by Father Le Meur. Later Joe Nasogaluak tells a story about a woman and her baby…