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A photo of a landing strip on an island six miles north of Old Crow. There is a person wrapped in blankets sitting in the foreground and a small plane in the background.

A photo of people transporting a patient from Old Crow by boat.

A photo of Colville Lake in the winter with log buildings in the background.

Frank Kuptana is storytelling about the way of life long ago with fishing, hunting seals, caribou, and polar bears, traditional clothing that was made, the clean snow houses that were made, the traditional food, homemade storage containers for the…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of his traditional knowledge of the weather, of his travels, of his employment and wages, of staying in Tuktoyaktuk, of purchasing a new boat and kicker and following his wife’s instructions, helped other’s hunt…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of when his late famoun grandfather who had many friends and who was not well but stlll very fit and wanted to go mining, so he, his grandfather, Tom Elanik, Harry, Abe Auktalik Okpik, Owen , his grandfather, left…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of when he was a young man and newly married, of his dogs and dog team, of hunting and trapping stories, of Mangilaauk passing away, and more. Note: Unidentified singer/speaker around the 25 minute mark. Part 7 and 8. …

Persis Gruben is sharing stories of the many changes she has witnessed in her life such as living a nomadic lifestyle out on the land to community permanent living, prior to European contact such as: the fast skidoos, of languages, of the…

Persis Gruben continues to tell stories of she and her family’s travels, of various families and people, of the big houses belonging to the police and Hudson’s Bay, of various the types of homes that Inuvialuit lived in, of the big flu that…

A Long Time Ago host Ishmael Alunik airs Joe Nasogaluak storytelling. Joe is storytelling about his younger days around 1931.

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.