Sarah Meyook
description: Taken during the Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island) Cultural Study for the Inuvialuit Social Development Program.
creator: Tousignant, John (Photographer)
date: 1990-07
type: Image

Sarah Meyook
description: Taken during the Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island) Cultural Study for the Inuvialuit Social Development Program.
creator: Tousignant, John (Photographer)
date: 1990-07
type: Image

Foolish and Wise Ways of Living by Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Hunting
subject: Work Ethics
subject: Food Preservation
subject: Planning
subject: Trading
subject: Drygoods
subject: Elders teachings
subject: Traditional Knowledge
subject: Faith
subject: Sharing
subject: Helping
subject: Saving
subject: Animals
subject: Whiteman
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about how Elders taught them how to live long ago, and speaks of foolish and wise ways of living and shares his wisdom and advice on the A Long Time Ago program.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Inuvialuit Way of Life Long Ago and Today with Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Newcomers
subject: Hunting
subject: Mountain People
subject: Coastal People
subject: Greeting Newcomers
subject: Gatherings
subject: Feasting
subject: Sufferings
subject: Hardships
subject: Language
subject: Way of Life
subject: Whiteman
subject: Culture
subject: Lifestyle Changes
subject: Advice
subject: God’s Word
subject: Fatal Flu
subject: Death
subject: Bowhead Whalers
subject: Alcohol Related Problems
subject: Ships
subject: Hudson Bay Store
subject: Liquor Store
subject: Elders Wisdom
description: Elder Amos Tumma is speaking about Inuvialuit way of life today compared to Inuvialuit way of living when he was younger. He shares his thoughts and opinions of the lifestyle changes he has seen over the years and shares his wishes and advice for people to live a good life on the A Long Time Ago program.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Amos Tumma Stories From His Younger Days
subject: Storytelling
subject: Cooking and Heating Systems
subject: Kuukpangmiut
subject: First Nation Trappers
subject: Whale Hunting
subject: Siglit
subject: Inupiat
subject: Gathering
subject: Food Preservation
subject: No Food Wastage
subject: Drum Dancing
subject: Bowhead Whalers
subject: Ships
subject: Kangmallit
subject: Gold
subject: Trade
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about his younger days of his travels, adventures, life experiences, and more on the A Long Time Ago program.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Amos Tumma Memories and Stories of Long Ago
subject: Storytelling
subject: Ship
subject: Stranded
subject: Christmas
subject: New Years
subject: Hunger
subject: Seals
subject: Edible Root
subject: Icefishing
subject: Ducks
subject: Hunting
subject: Whitemen
subject: Murders
subject: RCMP Boat
subject: Fighting
subject: Shaman
subject: Bowhead Whale
subject: Fishing
subject: Blind Seamstress
subject: Shaman Powers
subject: Various Families
subject: Warriors
subject: Alcohol
description: 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 program.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: 197?
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Amos Tumma Stories From His Younger Days
subject: Storytelling
subject: Minister Fry
subject: Travels
subject: Various Families
subject: 1913
subject: Rabbits
subject: Bowhead Whale Hunting
subject: Ships
subject: Trapping
subject: White Foxes
subject: Polar Bears
subject: Seals
subject: Christmas Gathering
subject: Caribou
subject: Hunting
subject: Snow House
subject: Church Service
subject: Cannibal
subject: Boating
subject: Danger
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about his travels as early as 1913 as well as hunting and trapping stories, and more on the A Long Time Ago program.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Amos Tumma Telling Several Short Life Stories
subject: Storytelling
subject: House Building
subject: Fishing
subject: Relations
subject: Various Families
subject: Caribou Hunting
subject: White Miners
subject: Murder
subject: World War 1
subject: Trapping
subject: Fox Prices
subject: Arranged Marriage
subject: Animals
subject: Missionaries
subject: Church Services
subject: Helpful
subject: Leaders
subject: Travels
subject: Dogs
subject: Dad
subject: Granddad
subject: Death
subject: Bowhead Whalers Ships
subject: Siglit
subject: Inupiat
subject: Drinking Party
subject: Shootout
subject: Lookout Tower
subject: Bishop Stringer
subject: Bishop Bompass
subject: Hymns
subject: Weasal
subject: White Fox
subject: Ptarmigan
subject: Uncles
description: 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.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Amos Tumma’s Old Time Stories
subject: Storytelling
subject: Widow
subject: Sons
subject: Hunters
subject: Marriage
subject: Families
subject: Poor
subject: Hunting
subject: Whaling
subject: Shaman
subject: Death
subject: Storms
subject: Uncles
subject: Giant Mouse
subject: Survival
subject: Warriors
subject: Sea Otter
subject: Food Preparation
subject: Food Storage
subject: Caribou
subject: Ice House
subject: Fish
subject: Water Fowl
subject: Lifestyle
subject: Birth Place
subject: Relatives
subject: Advice
subject: Faith
subject: Christmas Gatherings
subject: Feasting
subject: Elders Advice
description: 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 arrival, a big flood, Eastern Inuit, Ikaahuk houses and artifacts and tools, Christmas gatherings and feasting, and ends with advice on how to live a good way on the A Long Time Ago program.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Hunting and Trapping Stories Long Ago by Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Trapping
subject: Hunting
subject: Caribou
subject: Hiking
subject: Dogs
subject: Foxes
subject: Snow House
subject: Parental Teachings
subject: Polar Bears
subject: Seals
subject: Loons
subject: Muskox
subject: Kangmallit
subject: White foxes
subject: Fishing
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about hunting and trapping long ago on the A Long Time Ago program.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Inuvialuit and Inupiat Culture and Way of Life Before and After European Arrival
subject: Storytelling
subject: Culture
subject: Hunting
subject: Harvested Food Preservation
subject: Food Storage
subject: Whaling
subject: Traditional Foods
subject: Fishing
subject: Trapping
subject: Lifestyle Change
subject: Church
subject: Elders Wisdom
subject: Bible
subject: Animals
subject: Trading Post
subject: Shells
subject: Ships
subject: Dry Goods
subject: Fatal Flu
subject: Police
subject: Christmas Gathering
subject: Traditional Knowledge
subject: Games
subject: Dances
subject: Various Families
subject: Children
subject: Cultural Teaching
subject: Youth
subject: Elder Advice
subject: Alcohol
subject: Faith
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about Inuvialuit and Inupiat culture and way of life long ago before and after the arrival of the bowhead whalers, trading, and the trading post era on the A Long Time Ago program.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Shamans and Medicine Men by Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Shamans
subject: Medicine Men
subject: Illness
subject: Devil
subject: Hunting
subject: Tikiqarmiut
subject: Healing
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about shamans and medicine men prior to the arrival of ministers on the A Long Time Ago program.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Old Time Stories by Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Prophecy
subject: Young poor man
subject: Travels
subject: Leader
subject: Marriage
subject: Family
subject: Children
subject: Talking bird
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling a story that was already in progress about a prophecy told to a young man of when he would be asked to become the next leader and how this poor man life unfolds on the A Long Time Ago program.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Recollections From The Past with Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: European Bowhead Whalers
subject: Ships
subject: Drinking Parties
subject: Fights
subject: Bowhead Whale Hunting
subject: Caribou Hunting
subject: Beluga Whale Hunting
subject: Two Brothers
subject: Otter
subject: Fearless
subject: Marriage
subject: Easter
subject: Various Families
subject: Trapping
description: Elder Amos Tumma is telling stories from when he was a boy in the early 1900’s of when the European bowhead whalers would winter at Qikiqtarr̂uq and the events he witnessed. He also tells of a widow and her two sons who were always hunting and providing for and helping others, of how disagreements were settled by men, of fearless feats, and tells of his trapping and hunting stories.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Boats Iced In by Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Bowhead Whaling
subject: Iced In
subject: Sail Boating
subject: Hunting
subject: Trapping
subject: Travels
subject: Animals
subject: Various Families
subject: Drum Song
subject: Drum Dance
subject: Drygoods
subject: Trading Posts
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about when boats were iced in, when bowhead whaling season was done, of their travels, of trapping and hunting, then continuing their sailing journey after the winter, and making their way to the trading posts to Iglukpak and Katyaaq (Tschigehchic).
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: May 23, 1973
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Stories From Long Ago with Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Move
subject: Travels
subject: Trapping
subject: Snaring
subject: Dogs
subject: Christmas
subject: Struggles
subject: Hunting
subject: Mountain People
subject: Work Ethics
description: Elder Amos Tumma is telling old time stories of his younger days of hunting and travelling, and of his wife’s grandfather’s stories from long ago of how they lived, working hard, hardly sleeping, hunting for their food prior to arrival of Europeans, etc.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: May 23, 1973
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Shamans and Medicine Men by Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Shamans
subject: Murder
subject: Hunting
subject: Healing
subject: Ministers
subject: Suffering
subject: Loon
subject: Devil
subject: Medicine Man
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about how shamans were involved long ago prior to the arrival of ministers.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Amos Tumma Stories of Inuvialuit Lifestyle Long Ago and the Changes
subject: Storytelling
subject: Bowhead Whale Hunt
subject: Beluga Whale Hunting
subject: 1908
subject: 1909
subject: Bad Man
subject: Caribou Hunting
subject: Travels
subject: Captain Peterson
subject: Bowhead Whalers
subject: Japanese
subject: Ships
subject: Siqlit
subject: Animals
subject: Trapping
subject: Fishing
subject: Sealing
subject: Whitefox
subject: Lifestyle Change
subject: Changed Inuvialuit
subject: Whiteman Lifestyle
subject: Guns
subject: Shells
subject: Muskrat Hunting
subject: Elders Wisdom
subject: Seasonal Gathering and Hunting
subject: Food
subject: Food Preparation
subject: Food Storage
subject: Wood Gathering
subject: Work Ethics
description: Elder Amos Tumma is telling stories of hunting, fishing, trapping, and his many travels and how he and others lived long ago as well as the many changes.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Legends told by Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Legends
subject: Murderous Man
subject: Ruler’s Children
description: Elder Amos Tumma is telling a legend about a man who murders a woman’s father because he wanted to marry her followed by another legend of two ruler’s children who married each other.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Inuvialuit and Inupiat Culture and Way of Life Before and After White Man’s Arrival
subject: Storytelling
subject: Culture
subject: Hunting
subject: Harvested Food Preservation
subject: Food Storage
subject: Whaling
subject: Traditional Foods
subject: Fishing
subject: Trapping
subject: Lifestyle Change
subject: Church
subject: Elders Wisdom
subject: Bible
subject: Animals
subject: Trading Post
subject: Shells
subject: Ships
subject: Dry Goods
subject: Fatal Flu
subject: Police
subject: Christmas Gathering
subject: Traditional Knowledge
subject: Games
subject: Dances
subject: Various Families
subject: Children
subject: Cultural Teaching
subject: Youth
subject: Elder Advice
subject: Alcohol
subject: Faith
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about long ago Kittigaar̂ungmiut, Utqalungmiut, Qikiqarr̂ungmiut, and Uummarmiut culture and way of life long ago before and after the arrival of the bowhead whalers, trading, and the trading post era.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Legends and Stories by Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Legend
subject: Chief’s daughter
subject: Warriors
subject: Horse
subject: Marriage
subject: Inuvialuit Lifestyle Long Ago
subject: Helping
subject: Sharing Harvests
subject: Food Storage
subject: Deaths
subject: Orphan
subject: Angels
subject: Rescued
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about an old legend of a Chief’s daughter who didn’t want to marry then speaks of communal versus individual lifestyles. He then tells a story he heard from his wife’s grandfather about a mistreated orphaned teenager who was rescued by two angels, then starts another story but ends abruptly.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Reindeer Herding Lifestyle by Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Reindeer Herding
subject: Caribou Hunting
subject: Trapping
subject: Reindeer Herders
subject: Dogs
subject: Fishing
subject: Father Moses
subject: Waterfowl
subject: Travels
subject: Whitefox
subject: Death
subject: Northstar
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about his reindeer herding days.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Amos Tumma’s Travels in 1912 and 1913
subject: Storytelling
subject: 1912
subject: Schooner
subject: Scow
subject: Bowhead Whalers
subject: 1913
subject: Minister
subject: Polar Bears
subject: White Foxes
subject: Bowhead Whales
subject: Trapping
subject: Expedition
subject: Various Families
subject: Mr. Fry
subject: Christmas Gathering
subject: New Years
subject: Caribou Hunting
subject: Cannibal
subject: Travels
subject: Tea
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about his life stories, his travels and experiences including challenging times during 1912 and 1913.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Whaling and Old Time Stories by Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Beluga Whaling
subject: Ruben Brothers
subject: Culture
subject: Fishing
subject: Flooding
subject: Game Warden
subject: First Nations
subject: Store Bought Food
subject: Food Storage
subject: Climate Change
subject: Traditional Knowledge
subject: Weather
subject: Elders Teachings
subject: Food Annual Planning
subject: Lifestye Culture Change
subject: Caucasion Lifestyle
subject: Lifestyle Advice
subject: Bible Teachings
subject: Faith
subject: Hunger
subject: Work Ethics
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about beluga whaling at Nalurugiaq and Niaqunnaq long ago, about lifestyle changes he sees, about climate change, about how to live right, about his faith, about hunger, about work ethics, and more.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [1974]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Hunting and Travelling Stories with Amos Tumma
subject: Storytelling
subject: Hunting
subject: Trapping
subject: Travels
subject: Various Families
subject: Minister Fry
subject: Schooner
subject: Hudson Bay Company
subject: 1915
subject: Freight Hauling
subject: Missionaries
description: Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling of hunting and travelling stories including when he hauled freight for the Hudson Bay Company and when the missionaries started heading to the Eastern Arctic.
creator: Tumma, Amos
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio