Legend of the Man named Kaluniq by Agnes Nanogak then Persis Gruben telling her Life Story, Part 1.
Storytelling
Legends
Kaluniq
Women
Blended Family
Travels
Tents
Illness
Whiteman
Hiking
1926
Agnes Nanogak is telling the legend of some young women, one of whom is impregnated and was initially ashamed of her child later named Kaluniq including delicacies and or creatures of the sea, and more. The last five to six minutes of the tape is of Persis Gruben telling her life story of their travels with her parents, of when her mom got sick, etc.. Part 1. To be continued.
Nanogak, Agnes
Gruben, Persis
Inuinnaqtun
A Haunting Tale followed by The Girl Who Sank in Quicksand told by Agnes Nanogak
Hunter
Haunted
Death
Quicksand
Girls
Agnes Nanogak is telling of a hunter’s haunting tale followed by a story of a girl who sinks into another world. (Note: The last five minutes of the tape is a recording of an unidentified man telling a story that was already in progress. This is not related to the story that Agnes was telling.)
Unidentified Man
Three Legends of Kattayatkut, Ululina, and Kuplugyuak told by Agnes Nanogak
Kattayatkut
Food Scarcity
Hunting
Ululina
Baby
Grandmother
Shamanism
Dancing
Foxes
Kidnapped
Tricked
Kuplugyuaq
Agnes Nanogak is telling three legends. The first legend is about Kattayatkut, the old lady and her grandson. The second legend is about the fox who kidnapped Ululina, and the third legend is about Kuplugyuaq, the only man that the sought after woman wanted to marry.
Seal Hunter
Qauqyaqyuk
Orphan
Brothers
Mistreated
Slave
Abused
Agnes Nanogak is telling a legend of a man hunting seal with noisy children, one of whom was left behind by his brothers and became a very badly treated orphan, of a short legend of two snow birds, and the legend of the man with one eye who was out boating looking for a mate.
Anikinyak
Young Girls
Agnes Nanogak is telling the legends of a man named Anikniyak, of young girls looking for husbands, and a couple more short legends, then an unidentified man starts speaking at the end of the tape.
Stabbing
Murders
Bows and Arrows
Revenge
Police
White People
Guy Hologak is storytelling about his grandfather Aligoitok who was stabbed to death in Ikaahuk and other stabbings and killing of other people long ago prior to White People and RCMP arriving.
Hologak, Guy
Legend
Murder
Whitefox
Guy Hologak is storytelling about stories and legends that he heard about murders and stabbings and about a man, a woman, and a whitefox.
Taken Away From Family and Home by Agnes Nigiyok
Taken Away
Dogs
Scared
Neglect
Lonely
Child Abandonment
Caribou Clothing
Snow Houses
Fishing
Agnes Nigiyok is telling the very sad tale of when she was taken away from her family and homeland accross the ocean to Kugluktuk, Nunavut, as a young girl, by the Sikoalok’s who treated her like a dog and made her suffer and treated her very badly, when they had taken her in their plans to have her marry their son when they grew up. She would be very fearful of the Sikoakok’s and would cry only when she was alone for missing her family as she thought she would never see them again.
Nigiyok, Agnes
Inuvialuktun
Hurtful Childhood Memories by Agnes Nigiyok
Biological Parents
Adoptions
Siblings
Wife Stealing
Physical Abuse
Sexual Abuse
Gathering
Seal Hunting
Competitions
Fighting
Caribou Hunting
Lake Fishing
Arranged Marriage
Agnes Nigiyok is telling about her biological parents, her elderly father and the severe abuse that her much younger biological mother endured from other men. She talked about first being adopted by her aunt, then being taken away by a bullyish couple who took her away from her relatives, away from her homeland. She adds, that is when she would go from home to home and lived in fear of the couple, who had wanted her for a daughter in law but was treated very badly by them.
A Man Named Akak by Agnes Nigiyok Part 2 and Personal Life Stories
Kangiryuarmiut
Akak
Inlaws
Shaman
Investigation
Arrests
Marriage
Agnes Nigiyok is continuing the story about the man named Akak who was killed then an RCMP investigation ensued a year later when the families involved were arrested and taken away and returned a year later. Agnes also tells about one man’s wife who eventually returned from the West, about reluctantly having to live with the Sikoaluk’s again, then getting married and having a daughter, and sometimes witnessing men taking away other people’s wives and take them away, and of tough days, and more.
A Man Named Akak by Agnes Nigiyok Part 1
Winter Gathering
Agnes Nigiyok is storytelling about a man named Akak who was from Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay) who was married to a Kaniryuarmiut but his inlaws did not like him so they had him killed. To be continued.
Younger Days of Living The Traditional Inuvialuit Lifestyle by Anges Nigiyok
Adoptive Parents
Relatives
Traditional Food
Ptarmigan
Fish
Traditional Hunting Tools
Seal Oil Lamps
Caribou Skin Tents
Stone Lamps
Food Preservation
Food and Oil Cache
Travel
Traditional Fishing Methods
Dry Fish
Dry Meat
Sharing
Caribou Leg Marrow
Muskox Horn Ladle
Ptarmigan Skin Rag
Seal Skin Water Pail
Seal Skin Storage Bag
Rifle
Sea ice
Lakes
Agnes Nigiyok is storytelling of the time when she was a young girl and adopted by her aunt and uncle. It was a time when there were no White People, of when they lived a traditional lifestyle, of when they still only used bows and arrows to hunt, of traditional fishing methods, of when any useable item and any meat was always well put to use with nothing wasted, of food preservation, homeade containers, of traditional caribou skin tent homes, of stone seal oil lamps, ptarmigan skin rags, of when White People started arriving and rifles were started being used for hunting.
Surviving Very Hard Times by Agnes Nigiyok
Starving
Step Parents
Sikoaluk's
Whitemen
Relgion
Poor
Uummarmiut
Trapping
Lennies
Agnes Nigiyok is telling a story of when she was a young girl of the many years of hardships she endured when she lived with her step parents, the Sikoaluks . She recalls how they let her suffer in need of clothes and left her hungry most of the time she was with them. She speaks of staying with the Lennie family who treated her like their own child, and staying with various families while growing up, then getting married where she felt she was treated really well and finally got a good home, and more.
Donald Kaglik's Life Stories Part 14 and Legends
Family
Friends
Wolves
First Nations
Missing
Search
Test
Employment
Payment
Semmler
Painting
Pool Construction
Tent Frames
Ruler
Cannibalism
Shaman Powers
Wolverine
Donald Kaglik continues and completes the legend that he was telling his visitor Hebert Allen, of the girl who married a shaman. Donald then tells another legend that he told to his friends and family while sitting around the campfire at another time of the legend that his late dad had told them, who heard the legend from Ningaqsiq, when they used to go to Airport Creek after ratting season and when many people stayed in tents. Donald also tells a legend that his grandmother told him at his grandfather Ningasiq’s place when they went there for Christmas. Final Part 14.
Kaglik, Donald Ir̂ituagayuk Sakiitualuq Kuvlualuk
English
Donald Kaglik's Life Stories Part 13 and Legends
Visiting
Shamans
Moon
Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of his travels such as when he and his sister Mary went to Aklavik but when returning to their camp there was lots of overflow and it was hard going so they camped at Joe Inglangasuk’s on their way home where Ningaqsiq Bennet and Old Charlie Korogak were and they spent an evening of storytelling. Donald shares the legend that Ningaqsiq told them of the legend of the man from the moon. Donald then tells another legend of the girl who married a shaman that he told his visitor after arriving back to his camp. Part 13. To be continued.
Ration
Family Allowance
Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of when he was in the Aklavik hosptial after getting paralised, then recovered and has some drinks with his buddies. He also talks about when a permit was needed to purchase restricted amounts of alcohol from the new liquor store in Aklavik. Donald then works for Father Adam, and later was invited by Pascal to go with them to his place where they were fishing, building Pascal’s house, hunting, trapping, and more. Part 12. To be continued.
Marriage Proposal
Buck Semmler
Slim Semmler
1947
Alex Kaglik
Aklavik Hospital
Campsel Hospital
1952
Cord Wood
Mission School
Don Violet Scow
DPW Fire
Tent Frame
Don Violet
Injuries
Drinking
Mukluks
Money
Carpentry Work
Voting
Father Adam
Paralysed
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 types of training and work in Inuvik, including work injuries, during the era when dog teams and scows were sill the main mode of transportation, and still be able to take time off for fishing and trapping, along with some comical short stories. . Part 11. To be continued.
Donald Kaglik's Life Stories Part 10 and Man From the Moon Legend
Moon Man
Daughter
Chores
Christmas
Sewing
Muskrat Hunting Season
Relations
Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of when he’d tell stories to his friends while doing chores after returning from his trapline then proceeds to tell one of the legends he’d tell them. Donald then continues with part ten of his life stories of the hardships endured when his stepmother Charlotte passed away, muskrat hunting with his dad and young siblings, and of Christmas sewing, and more. Part 10. To be continued.
512 House
New Years
Snow House
Inuvialuit lamp
Dog Teams
Poker Game
Gramma’s Mink
Ice Fishing
Various Families
Peffers Hotel
Dog Race
Saul Schubert's store
Snowshoes
Horror Show
Spooked
Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of when he was just out of school, of his travels including travels with his dad, of his trapping and dog team adventures, of racing to town with his uncle, other dog stories, of his grandmother’s snared mink, of picture shows, and being spooked at camp. Part 9. To be continued.
Poker Win
Fishnet Fishing
Harness Repair
Wood Hauling
Dog team
Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of his travels, of staying in tents near Inuvik, of visiting and or visitors, of card games, of fun times, of fishnet fishing, of his dog team, of trapping, and of various families staying at Twin Lakes Part 8. To be continued.
Whaling
Swimming
Haunted House
Radio Mystery Story
North Star
Marriages
Chord Wood
Schooner
Scow
Semmler’s Mink Farm
Aklavik Construction Company
Carpenter Training
Muskrat Hunting
Owl Scare
Spider Scare
High Water
Rock Blasting
Birth
Poker Players
Stolen Food
Utilidors
Drowned Deckhand
Ghostly Experience
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 was first starting up, of when he and many others began to train and work in building the new town of Inuvik, muskrat trapping, some comical short stories. Part 7. To be continued.
Bear
Loche Sales
Mink Feed
Stringer’s Birthday Party
Peffer’s Hotel
Geese Hunting
Various People
Fun Times
Old Time Treasures
Storm Days
Buck Semmler’s Birthday Party
Ice House
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 selling loche to Slim for mink feed, of when wolverine fur prices were good, celebrating his uncle Stringer then Buck Semmler’s birthdays, hunting, and more. Part 6. To be continued.
1951
Gas Lamp Fire
Aklavik Doctor
Moose
Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of he and other’s life experience’s living in the bush when fishnet fishing, of a gas lamp fire and his inlaw getting burned then having to dogteam to Aklavik to see the doctor, running into moose in there travels, then a humorous bear hunt story. Part 5. To be continued.
Peffer’s Restaurant
Easter
July Activities
Poker Games
Wages
Mouse Scare
Muskrats
Mink
NT Freight Boat
Beluga Whale Hunting
Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of when people used to go to Aklavik for Easter, July games, Christmas, and New Years, of meals and employment at Peffer’s restaurant, of the geese hunting and poker games, of a comical mouse scare, working for Slim Semmler at Napoyak, of Semmler’s Store, a comical cresent wrench story and he and other’s beluga whale hunting story, a ten dollar poker pot, of rabbit snaring, then going home, and more. Part 4. To be continued.
Flood
Registered Lands
Accident
Generator
Christmas gifts
Assaulted
Airplane
Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of muskrat hunting, of his travels, a comical bumble bee story, high water and camp flooding, working for wages, of when the government divided up hunting and trapping areas, about sawing wood with Stringer’s electric lights, children playing, Christmas and Easter season, getting assaulted, and more. Part 3. To be continued.