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A video of Elder Colin Harry (aka Isaugan) telling stories about his life. He talks about being adopted, going to school, hunting, trapping, and herding reindeer.

A video of Joe Apian describing his experiences living and travelling around the Circumpolar World. Among the discussed topics are: drum dancing, hunting, harvesting, and other various traditional activities.

A video of Elder David Nasogaluak speaking about his experiences growing up, mostly relating to hunting and the people he remembers.

A video that begins with athletes competing in the 1985 Northern Games in Tuktoyaktuk and continues with elders being interviewed about their life in a camp at Nallok Point.

Two interviews with two Paulatuk Elders who give accounts of growing up in Paulatuk.

Grade 3 and 4 students from Sir Alexander Mackenzie school leave for three days and two nights to a cultural camp to learn basic survival skills, firearms awareness, cultural elements, etc.

A segment on a traditional hunting and fishing trip.

A video depicting cultural games; fishing techniques.

Poem about going fishing. In the Kangiryuarmiutun dialect and English.

Poem about going fishing. In the Siglitun dialect and English.

Poem about going fishing. In the Uummarmiutun dialect and English.

A Long Time Ago host Ishmael Alunik airs Elder Donald Ir̂ituagayuk Kaglik storytelling. Donald is telling a legend of a shaman followed by another legend of murder in the family. The latter to be continued.

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

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 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…

Elder Buster Kailek is sharing about how they lived long ago out on the land which he says is very different from his present day living.

Elder Buster Kailek continues sharing part 2 of his life stories from his younger days.

Elder Buster Kailek continues his storytelling about his younger days of when he and others were reindeer herding, of his travels, fishing, and hunting muskrats.

Buster Kailek is storytelling about how Inuvialuit lived prior to European contact, about how they made fire long ago, about fishing, about caribou hunting methods prior to modern guns with his uncle and others, about all the many uses of caribou for…

Buster Kailek is storytelling about their travels including traveling to Tuktoyaktuk getting supplies at the Hudson Bay, and the many schooners that were there, of their traveling challenges, of a child’s death, of hunting and trapping, of their…

Buster Kailek is telling old time stories of when he was a young man, of how people lived long ago, hunting, fishing, trapping, living off the land and sea, making and preserving traditional food harvested, and of their nomadic lifestyle, of their…

Mary Kailek is sharing her journals of she and her family’s activities from summer of 1979 to 1980, of activities such as living out on the land, hunting, fishing, trapping, snaring, of their visitors, of their travels, of deaths, and births, of…

Mary Kailek is storytelling of her many travels, of various people, of the types of animals harvested, of her concerns of the new wildlife officer’s regulations and governance during that era, clothing and other items made from animal skins, of…

Mary Kailek is storytelling about when they were out muskrat hunting including challenges when traveling, of various family members and friends comings and goings, of beluga and fish harvests, and more. The storytelling then switches to Mary telling…

Stories start with a repeated story from previous old time story that was already in progress that Mary Kailek heard from Itualuk. Mary also speaks about lifestyle changes from their very traditinoal active and busy lifestyle to a life of ease and…