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A video account of traditional hunting skills and appropriate harvesting procedures to ensure the preservation of the beluga whale.

A video account of traditional hunting skills and appropriate harvesting procedures to ensure the preservation of the beluga whale.

A video account of traditional hunting skills and appropriate harvesting procedures to ensure the preservation of the seal and beluga whale.

A photo of Hunting beluga whales with boats. Credit: Martha Harry

The image shows the outcome of Hunting beluga whales, they were able to get one. Credit: Martha Harry

Aklavik Elder Hope Gordon is storytelling about where and how they lived in Alaska, Part 1. To be continued.

A photo that includes Rhoda Aluniq (Ida Aleekuk’s mom), unidentified child, Minnie Nanmak, Sarah Lennie in front with ulu, Kinoogun, (Frank Cockney’s grandmother), behind; Tukpan (Emma Dick’s mother). All of them are skinning and harvesting a…

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

Native Language Programming airs Donald Ir̂ituagayuk Sakiitualuq Kuvlualuk Kaglik and Felix Nuyaviak telling short old time stories. Donald is telling a comical story about the lost ring and Felix is is reminscing about how the many people of…

A Long Time Ago host Ishmael Alunik airs Elder Ralph Kimiksana is storytelling about the traditional life long ago when he was younger. Ralph also talks about how people would help each other long ago without expecting payment unlike today.

A photo of Eddie Gruben with a beluga whale and a boat called "Tootsie" on the shores of Tuktoyaktuk.

Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of his travels, of almost drowning, of a haunting scare, the end of the Semmler’s Mink Farm and he and other hired hands helped Semmler’s move to Inuvik when Inuvik…

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…

Donald Kaglik is sharing stories of his memories of his younger days of his travels, an accidential fire, an injury that landed him in the hospital, an RCMP member's disbelief in shamans, his years in the residential school, an educational and…

A photo of Silas Palayaq (Agnes Nigiruq’s adoptive dad) cutting up a white whale at Horton River. He is wearing traditional clothing.

A photo of Silas Palayaq (Agnes Nigiruq’s adoptive dad) cutting up a white whale at Horton River.

A photo of a convoy of boats on the Arctic Ocean.

A photo of the remains of a bowhead whale.

A photo of four whaling boats on the water.

A photo of two whaling boats on a beach.

A photo of four whaling boats in the distance.

A video account of traditional hunting skills and appropriate harvesting procedures to ensure the preservation of the beluga whale.

A photo of a few boats that have just returned from Hunting Beluga Whales and are unloading there catch. Credit: Martha Harry

Elder Amos Tumma is telling old time stories about a widow and her two sons, about some of his uncles, warriors, no animal parts wasted, harvested food prepared and stored to last all year long, a giant killer mouse, life prior to White peoples…

Video interviews with Elders on their expertise on how to prepare traditional food, and harvesting techniques.