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A Long Time Ago host Ishmael Alunik airs Aklavik Elder Hope Gordon storytelling about where and how they lived in Alaska, Part 4.

Host of A Native Voice Edward Lennie provides local and regional news then interviews Felix Nuyaviak about bowhead and beluga whaling long ago as well as how Tuktuur̂aqtuuq got it’s name and how Inuvialuit were able to tell time without modern…

Host of A Native Voice Edward Lennie provides local and regional news then interviews Elder Archie Ir̂igaaqtuaq about Easter and about way of life long ago. Archie also tells stories from as early as 1902.

Johnny Ruben is telling a story about an old lady and her grandson who were abandoned and left for dead.

Joe Nasogaluak is storytelling of he and his family’s’s travels and way of life beginning in the fall of 1915 in Tuktuur̂aqtuuq

Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about some of his earliest memories of his family, others families, and stories from long ago of how he and other Inuvialuit lived, their struggles, hardships and survival during their travels on the A Long Time Ago…

Host of the A Long Time Ago program, Louie Goose airs Raddi Koiksak telling the Legend of Jonah of the Arctic followed by a very short story told by Father Le Meur that he heard in Paulatuuq. Father Le Meur then translates Raddi’s story into…

Kenneth Peeloolook is sharing his memories of his younger days in Alaska and in Canada of his life experiences, part one. To be continued.

Kenneth Peeloolook continues his storytelling from 1902 and 1921, of their travels, adventures, caribou hunting experiences, drumming, singing, and dancing, arrival of the White Bowhead Whalers, along with alcohol, mining, employment, and much more, …

A Long Time Ago host, Louie Goose introduces Donald Kaglik who is telling the legend of The Boy who Found the Lost Tribe of the Caribou and Beluga Whale, part 2 and part 3

Joe Nasogaluak is storytelling about his life stories during the year 1925.

Mabel Steffanson is continuing to tell her life stories of her younger days. Part 2. To be continued.

A photo of Titus Allen (left) and Abba (Abraham) Dick (right) working with bowhead whale meat on logs.

A photo of the remains of a bowhead whale.

A photo of Titus Allen, Danny A. Gordon, and Billy Archie (in front) with a whale.

A photo of a bowhead vertebra by the water near the whaler's camp at Cape Parry.

A photo of a bowhead skull on the shore at Cape Parry.

A photo of a bowhead whale's vertebra located at the north end of Cape Parry.