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Mary Kailek is storytelling from the 1937 era, of when she was doing a lot of sewing, of visitors and listening to storytelling in the evenings, of their travels for Christmas and New Years, stories of her dad and Joe trapping and hunting stories, of…

Mary Kailek is continuing to share her memories from 1942 and 1943 of: she and her family’’s activities such as hunting, trapping, of various people, of their travels, of going to Aklavik for Easter, Peffer’s Hotel, Banksland people who flew to…

Host Frank Cockney speaks with Aklavik Elders Archie Erigaktuk (Ir̂igaaktuk), Mary Archie, Dora Malegana and Johnny Malegana (Maligiana) who are speaking to and sending greetings to family and friends on the Inuit Program.

Alice Agnaoyak is reminiscing of the fun nomadic lifestyle they used to live long ago that included a lot of traveling out on the land and camping compared to nowadays, where she says they just stay inside sitting in the houses with little to do and…

Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about several life stories of missionaries, bowhead whalers, drinking, shoot outs, White miners, murder, a comical weasal story, and more on the A Long Time Ago program.

A photo of a boy wearing traditional clothing standing inside a house with a dog sleeping on the floor. Martha Kudluk's uncle, Makarhaquq, Makkarhuq.

A photo of a boy and two puppies outside of a house.

A photo of Bunigiok Kangoam Polianga with a dog next to him.

Michael Amos is storytelling about when he and others were hauling freight to Ulukhaktok N.T. from Tuktoyaktuk, of their challenges, close call experiences during their boating journey, and stops along the way, on the A Long Time Ago program hosted…

A photo of a house and dogs in foreground with houses and hills in the background.

A photo of a dog running by a barrel with houses in the background.

Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days during the early years of Inuvik starting up in the 1940’s and 1950’s, when workers and families lived in framed tents and 512 homes, of never being short of varied…

Donald Kaglik continues and completes the legend that he was telling his visitor Hebert Allen, of the girl who married a shaman. Donald then tells another legend that he told to his friends and family while sitting around the campfire at another…

Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of getting into mischief, of beluga whale hunting, of he and other’s adventures, of fun and lonely times, along with mishaps, log hauling, sawing wood, rabbit snaring,…

Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of muskrat hunting, of his travels, a comical bumble bee story, high water and camp flooding, working for wages, of when the government divided up hunting and trapping…

Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days continuing the bear hunt story, of fun times, of a comical story of dogs, of working at Peffer’s hotel then at Slim’s Mink Ranch, of his travels, of whaling, then…

Frank Kuptana is storytelling about his earliest memories of traveling alone with his mother who was packing him, of hard times and good times, of his mom remarrying, of the gatherings, games, visiting, and dances, of their homes built, of hunting,…

Edgar Kotokak and Andy Cockney are telling oldtime stories including their lifestyle stories while speaking with the unidentified interviewer.

Agnes White is interviewing Edith Haogak about where and how she and her family lived at various places long ago. Edith is also storytelling as she identifies many traditional place names.

A photo of Elijah Sydney dressed in traditional clothing.

William Kuptana is continuing the hunting stories with the polar bear and seal hunting with traditional hunting methods and homemade hunting tools and weapons, prior to Whiteman contact. Note: Story stops abruptly.

William Kuptana is storytelling about his parents and siblings, who only had Inuvialuit names since they all passed away prior to the arrival of Europeans, and mentions that David Roland having his father’s Inuvialuktun name, , of learning how to…

Bessie Lennie is storytelling of when they first went to Ikaahuk, Banks Island when she was a young girl, of their’s and other’s travels for hunting, fishing, Easter, Christmas, of sharing and trading with visitors, of the traditional clothing…

Mary Kailek is storytelling of when they were at Avvaq, of various people, of mourning for her uncle Kimiksan, of her relations with others, of their travels including to Tuktoyaktuk and then to Aklavik, of her parents, and shares more fond memories…

Mary Kailek is continuing her life stories sharing more memories of when she was younger when her dad worked with the Hudson Bay Company, when her mom would be sewing, of the rat sunday services, of her travels with her parents, of various people, of…