Life Stories and a Bear Legend with Mary Kailek
Storytelling
Fishnet
Snares
Fish Sales
Ram Air
Committee for Original People's Entitlement (COPE)
Sewing
Trapping
Alcohol
Faith
God
Christmas
Salvation
Bear Legend
Travels
Family
Friends
Camsell Hospital
Various People
Mary Kailek is sharing stories of her lifestyle, of her travels, of her family and friends, of hospitalizations of family members, and shares her faith in God, and also tells a bear legend, and much more.
Kailek, Mary
Inuvialuktun
Life Stories and Journals of Mary Kailek
Journals
Hunting
Muskrats
Fishing
Beluga Whale
Visitors
Medicals
Traditional Food
Summer
Shamans
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 a story that was already on progress about shamans around the 31:14 minute mark that ends abruptly.
Life Stories and Legends with Raddi Koiksak
Drum Songs
Legends
Parents
Traditional Foods
Animals
Store
Schooner
Alaskans
1915
Tea Payment
Raddi Koiksak is telling legends and life stories from when he was young including their traveling, hunting, and fishing stories.
Koiksak, Raddi
Life Stories and Memories by Ivy Raddi Final Part 5
Births
Marriage
Illness
Hospitalised
Hudson’s Bay Store
Adoptions
Midwife
Religion
Land
Elders
Lifestyle
Greetings
Advice
Ivy Raddi is completing her life stories, is sharing memories of her younger days, and is sharing her wisdom and advice to the listeners. Final, part 5.
Raddi, Ivy
Goose, Louie
Life Stories and Memories by Ivy Raddi Part 1
Various Families
Residential School
Reindeer Herders
Deaths
Gatherings
Dancing
Relations
Ivy Raddi is telling stories and sharing memories of her younger days to include their many travels and lifestyles long ago. Part 1. To be continued.
Life Stories and Memories by Ivy Raddi Part 2
Hudson Bay
Schooners
Flu Epidemic
Staples
English Programming
Ivy Raddi is continuing her life stories and sharing memories of her younger days, Part 2. To be continued. it changes to English programming at the 45:33 minute mark
Unidentified Speaker
English
Life Stories and Memories by Ivy Raddi Part 3
Kinship
Lifestyles
Ivy Raddi is continuing her life stories and sharing memories of her younger days, Part 3. To be continued.
Life Stories and Memories by Ivy Raddi Part 3 Continued
Snowhouse
Gathering
Games
Ministers
Police
Ivy Raddi is continuing her life stories and sharing memories of her younger days from Part 3. To be continued.
Life Stories and Memories by Ivy Raddi Part 4
Ivy Raddi is continuing her life stories and sharing memories of her younger days from Part 4. To be continued.
Life Stories and Memories from 1920 by Mary Kailek
Birth Place
Relatives
1920
Record Player
Fishnet Fishing
Northstar Schooner
Church Service
Funeral
Tents
Mangilaaluk
Employment
10 Horse Kicker
Influenza
Mary Kailek is storytelling of when she was younger living with her parents, of various people, of her sister Annie’s birth, of when the schooners arrived and her dad purchased a record player for her, of their travels, of living at various locations, of the big flu sickness when some passed away from Influenza, and other memories from when she was younger.
Life Stories by Elder Buster Kailek, Part 1.
Hunting and Gathering
Food Preservation
Travel
Food Preparation
Seasonal Camps
Boat Making
Dances
Fire
Snow House
Sharing
Dogs
Wildlife
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.
Kailek, Buster
Life Stories by Elder Buster Kailek, Part 2.
Lost Man
White Guardians
Arranged Marriage
Big Sickness
Death
Elder Buster Kailek continues sharing part 2 of his life stories from his younger days.
Life Stories by Elder Buster Kailek, Part 3.
Semmler
Dog feed
Elder Buster Kailek is storytelling about his younger days of his travels, hunting, and trapping
Life Stories by Elder Buster Kailek, Part 4.
House Construction
Reindeer Herding
Elder Buster Kailek is storytelling about his younger days of his travels, hunting, trapping, and reindeer herding.
Life Stories by Elder Buster Kailek, Part 5.
Dog Feed
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.
Life Stories by Laura Lucas Final Part 3
Father Franche
Medicine
Ptarmigan
Rabbits
Transportation
Reindeer Meat
Bones
Flood
Cigarettes
Storekeepers
Peffer’s Restaurant
Laura Lucas is completing the final part 3, of her life stories.
Lucas, Laura
1929
Boating
Berries
Inupiaq
Pet Fox
Sails
Trader
Saigu (teepee style tents)
Fears
Cards
Squirrels
Laura Lucas is telling her life stories. Part 1. To be continued.
Drownings
Police Search
Earthquake
1940 or 1941
Jail
Dry Fish
Waterproof Boots
Foxes
Gas Lamp
Traditional Lamp
Wolves
Laura Lucas is continuing her life stories. Part 2. To be continued.
Illnesses
Mary Kailek is sharing life stories, of past store keepers, of hunts, of traditional food, of their travels, of various family members, births and deaths, including difficult and sad times, of her sister’s passing, and remembers and sings part of gospel song, rock of ages, in Inuvialuktun. Mary also share her faith in God, and more. The audio suddenly ends at the 25:42 minute mark. Part 1. To be continued.
Waterfowl
Siblings
Medical
Ice House
Mary Kailek is telling life stories and shares her mom's words of wisdom to her and her father before her mom’s passing, of her travels including when traveling with Sarah and Lennie Inglangasuk, the many people and tents at Tapqaq (Shingle Point), of other various people, the large stored cache of traditional food, of her brother Donald Ir̂ituagayuk Kaglik, and more.
Life Stories Continued by Mary Kailek Part 2
Life Stories
Mary Kailek is continuing her personal life stories of her younger days. Part 2.
New Years
Bombardier
Doctor
Dog Team
Court Case
Beaver
Drowning
Traditional Clothing
Edmund River
Life Boat
Mary Kailek is storytelling of when she recovered from her illness and went to pick up Joe from the hospital with her dogteam, of the numerous people that were sick and some who passed away, with the hospital in Aklavik being full including the public school, of the police and doctor message for people not to travel to Aklavik or return to Aklavik due many being sick, that they would deliver food with the bombardier to people, of she and other’s travels, of beluga whale hunting, of the lifestyle living out on the land, of the new experience of people going to listen to a court hearing in Aklavik, also of the dancing, of suddenly going into labour and giving birth to her son, of some people that made it safely to Tuktoyaktuk with a lifeboat after hearing that a boat had sunk, and more.
Portrait photographs
Gordon, Ella
Gordon, Annie B
Malegana, Dora
A photo of Elders Dora Malegana, Annie B. Gordon, and Ella Gordon playing a game in Aklavik.
Lifestyle Long Ago Interview with Elder William Kuptana
Interview
Hiking
Traditional Hunting Methods
Inukshuit
Handcrafted Traditional Hunting and Fishing Tools
Traditional Fishing Methods
Traditional Shelter Homes
Food Storage
Seals
Polar Bears
Water Fowl
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, of when he also hunted prior to guns and fishnets, and much more regarding their lifestyle prior to contact with White people. Note: The beginning part of the story is repeated from he previous lifestyle interview and after the interview around the last minute mark is a muffled interview with an unidentified woman.
Kuptana, William
Kuptana, Rosemary
Lifestyle Prior to European Contact by Buster Kailek
Caribou
Bow and Arrows
Nomadic
Women
Murder
Traditional Knowledge
Young Boys
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 clothing, food including storing annual food supplies, about living a nomadic lifestyle and following the seasons and travelling to seasonal camps for hunting various animals at different times of the year, and about fights over women that at times led to killing. Buster also speaks of the importance of teaching the young boys about hunting and about traditional knowledge which is being forgotten due to the young now adopting and living a Caucasian lifestyle.