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Frank Kuptana is telling old time stories of how people lived long ago of how people hunted, fished, and gathered for their food long ago, living a totally traditional lifestyle compared to today with help now a days from the government, with people…

Frank Kuptana is sharing more memories of his lifestyle after getting married, of when he and his wife’s travels and living on the the land, hunting, trapping, fishing, getting ice and wood, and tells stories of living the traditional life,…

Frank Kuptana is storytelling about his lifestyle long ago, of his travels when he was a young man, of seal hunting, of fishing, of the very few people and houses at Ulukhaktok when he first went there, of the trading post, of Father Bruyant, of…

Elders Sarah Kuptana, William Kuptana, Robert Kuptana, Kitty Roland, and Emma Dick speak to and send greetings to family and friends. James Ruben and Gideon Ruben report about ITC and Landclaims work in Inuvialuktun and English.

Elders Sarah Kuptana and Elmira Soupay speak to family and friends and send greetings on the A Long Time Ago program.

Various Elders speak to family and friends and send greetings on the People Speak Inuit program.

Sarah Kuptana is sharing her first memories of of their travels, of huntng, of their lifestyle, of large Inuit gatherings, of abandonment, illnesses, deaths, and more when she was a young girl, when they lived a nomadic lifestyle. Part 1. To be…

Sarah Kuptana continues storytelling about a good life, of the Hudson Bay Store, of her dad’s job, of getting a monthly rashion, of their travels, her parents illnesses, of various families, of fishing, hunting, and her first experiences of what…

Sarah Kuptana shares more memories of her younger days, of a very good life, of so much wildlife, fish, and the occasional staple food from the Hudson Bay, that no one would go hungry, and more, part 3. To be continued.

Sarah Kuptana continues to share more memories of her younger days of happy times, hard times, fearful times, then suffering with sickness that she did not know was TB (tuberculosis). She shares about how she was eventually transported by boat to…

Sarah Kuptana continues to tell more stories of when she was a young woman with her young family, their struggles after she and her husband survive tb (tuberculosis), in trying to re-establish a new life and trying to find their place in a harsh cold…

Sarah Kuptana continues her storytelling of when they travelled to Ikahuuk (Sachs Harbour), of the hard times they went through including starvation, of her family gaining employment with the department of transporation, of making a new start in an…

Sarah Kuptana continues her life stories of when she and her family overcame starvation and hard times, finding employment and selling her sewing to make money, and continuing to improve their lifestyle and feeling like a milionaire, such as when…

Sarah Kuptana is completing the final part 8 of this series of stories of her younger days when they first returned to Sachs Harbour, of her children leaving for school, of their travels by plane including a trip to Alaska and learning about the…

William Kuptana is storytelling of when he started remembering when he was a young boy of how they lived long ago prior to Caucasians arriving, of when they lived a totally traditional lifestyle and describes their hunting and fishing methods prior…

William Kuptana is storytelling about Kullaq, the very good polar bear hunter, of the first people, the Kangiryuarmiut, that started going to Ikaahuk (Sachs Harbour), Banksland, of the (Eastern Inuit) Qangmalit old timers who called it "Ikaahuk"…

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…

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 telling stories that he heard from his grandfather and his parents as well as telling stories of what he also witnessed when he was young. Stories of dangerous men killing each other when warring and fighting over women, of…

Inuvialuktun host, Ishmael Suuyuq Alunik, introduces William Kuptana who is storytelling about his lifestyle when he was a young man, of when Inuvialuit gathered together including their traditional hunting and fishing methods prior to Whiteman…

William Kuptana is interviewed by his daughter Rosemary Kuptana about how he and others lived long ago when he was younger, about their hunting and fishing methods, about their traditional hunting and fishing handcrafted tools, about their shelters,…

Rosemary Kuptana interviews Bessie Lennie about her memories of her lifestyle long ago such as her birth place, age, family, lifestyle including life on the land, of when she first started to remember things as a young child, traditional lifeskills…

Rosemary Kuptana is completing the interview with Bessie Lennie about her memories of her lifestyle long ago when as living off off the land when she and her husband were returning and traveling back home while running short of food including running…

Rosemary Kuptana continues to interview Bessie Lennie about her lifestyle as a young adult, of a dog team trip with her husband that almost cost them their lives, then of having to raise her children on her own when her husband passed away, of the…

Bessie Lennie is telling a stories about her family and the way they lived long ago with her family and older sister's family, the Kuptanas, of their travels, of when caribou was hunted for food, for caribou skins, for sinew, of when they were hiking…