Sarah Kuptana and Edith Haogak Lifestyle Interview and Stories
Oral History
Interview
Storytelling
Lifestyle
Animals
Hunting
Travels
Hiking
Traditional Place Names
Mapping
Homes
Traditional Food
Clothing
Steffansson’s Expedition
Bill Seymore
Arranged Marriages
Trapping
Murielle Nagy and Agnes White continue interviewing Sarah Kuptana and Edith Haogak about their lifestyles and stories from their younger days. Note: audio sometimes is very low. Murielle and and another unidentified speaker are suddenly heard speaking French then it switches back to the interview.
This recording is from the Aulavik Oral History Project undertaken by the Inuvialuit Social Development Program.
Nagy, Murielle
White, Agnes
Kuptana, Sarah
Haogak, Edith
English
Inuvialuktun
Inuinnaqtun
Sarah Kuptana Edith Haogak and Andy Carpenter Lifestyle Interview and Stories
Fishing
Vaccinations
First Nations
Changes
Oil Companies
Dewline
Murielle Nagy and Agnes White continue interviewing Sarah Kuptana and Edith Haogak about their lifestyles and stories from their younger days followed by an interview with Andy Carpenter about his lifestyle, stories, and memories from his younger days.
Carpenter, Andy
Sarah Kuptana Edith Haogak Photographs and Mapping Interview
Genealogy
Photographs
Miners
Murielle Nagy and Agnes White are viewing photographs with Sarah Kuptana and Edith Haogak for identification purposes as well as viewing maps and naming the traditional place names. They also interview them about their genealogy and and life stories.
Illness
Death
Snaring
Traditional Clothing
Food Cache
Various Families
Traditional Tools
Agnes White is interviewing Sarah Kuptana about where and how she and her family lived at various places, such as Kangikhualuk (De Salis Bay), and at Kangikhuakyuk (Jesse Bay), and towards Naqhaaluk, and more, long ago.
Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Final Part 8
Poor
Dogs
Fun
Learning
Residential School
Plane
Northern Games
Travel
Inupiat
Inupiaq Lifestyle
First Nations Church
Sick
Christmas
Visiting
Skidooing
Ice Fishing
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 Inupiaq lifestyle and being amazed by their land claims, their self governance, their leadership with Inupiaq staff, and community infrastructure, and more.
Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 1
Inuit Gathering
Bitten
Eggs
Drymeat
Siblings
Polar Bear Scare
Relatives
Whitemen
Nomadic
Eastern Arctic Inuit
Feasting
Dancing
Abandonment
Puivlirmiut (Inland People)
God
Jesus
Hunger
Sharing
Deaths
Marriage
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 continued.
Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 2
Hudson Bay Trading Post
Employment
Ration
Fishnet Fishing
Visitors
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 was now Christmas Celebrations, and more. Part 2. To be continued.
Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 3
Shelters
Dryfish
Traditional Fishing Methods
Stone Houses
Food Abundance
Staple Food
Healthy
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’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 4
Dog Deaths
Food
Whiteman Food
Birth
TB (tuberculosis)
Paralyzed
RC (Roman Catholic) Ship
Noah Elias' Boat - Blue Fox
Hospitalized
Prayer
Camsell Hospital
Suffering
Faith
Fear
RCMP
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 finally reach the Aklavik hosptial only to have to leave for the Campsell Hospital in the South, and more. Part 4. To be continued.
Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 5
Reunited
Igloos
Easter
Starvation
Hard Times
Caribou
Rich Visitors
Cigarettes
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 environment, and more. Part 5. To be continued.
Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 6
DOT (Department of Transportation)
Food Shortage
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 unfamiliar land, and initially not knowing the hunting areas which made it all that more difficult, and the joy of harvesting caribou, and more. Part 6. To be continued.
Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 7
Money
Stove heater
House
Alcohol
Government Housing
Rich
Change
School
Children
Lonely
Airplanes
Ice House
Food Supply
Skidoos
Dogteam
Transportation
Westerners
Whiteman
Games
Flu Sickness
Ptarmigans
Fish Netting
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 acquiring an oil heater in their tent, then adjusting to changes such as moving into a government house, making the switch to modern transportation, from dog teams to skidoos, to airplanes, and then her children leaving for school, and more. Part 7. To be continued.
Portrait photographs
Clothing and dress
Music
Singing
Dancers
Video recording
Mangelana, Sarah
Drums (Musical instruments)
A photo of Sarah Mangelana performing a dance.
Raddi, Eva
Awards
A photo of Sarah Mangelana holding an award.
Mangilana, Sarah
Avik, Mary
Meyook, Sarah
Taken during the Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island) Cultural Study for the Inuvialuit Social Development Program.
Tousignant, John (Photographer)