Storytelling
Amulets
Brothers
Heros
Albert Oliver (Niqsialuq) is storytelling about a couple with three sons who lived in isolation along the seashore until the boys grew up and wanted to travel and Albert tells of their heroic adventures.
Oliver, Albert
Iñupiatun
Life and Times September 1923 with Joe Nasogaluak Part 1
September
1923
Hudson Bay
Schooners
Various Families
Store Keeper
Dogs
Caribou
Hunting
Travels
Johnson
Racing
Food Shortage
Joe Nasogaluak is storytelling about his life stories from September 1923. Note: the volume starts fading about half way through to becoming barely audible for the last six to seven minutes then story abruptly ends. Part 1. To be continued.
Nasogaluak, Joe
Inuvialuktun
Life and Times September 1923 with Joe Nasogaluak Final Part 2. Note: Audio is very low at times.
Various People
Hiking
Trapping
Seals
Fish
Polar Bear
Hard Times
Icehouses
Ptarmigans
Whitefox
Waterfowl
Muskrats
Illness
Deaths
Alaskans
Joe Nasogaluak is completing his life stories from September 1923 when he was nineteen years old. Final Part 2.
Life and Times in 1924 by Joe Nasogaluak Part 1
Flu
1924
Whitefoxes
Storekeepers
Staples
Egg Gathering
Fishing
Caucasian Trappers
Slavey First Nations
Traditional Surgery
Sail Boats
Joe Nasogaluak is storytelling about his life stories during the year 1924 including when he was sick that year with the flu. Part 1. To be continued. Note: The audio is very low so it’s hard to hear what he is saying for the last ten to eleven minutes.
Life and Times in 1924 by Joe Nasogaluak Part 2
Various Hunters
Summer Gatherings
Geese
Beluga Whale
Sickly
Ice Houses
Log House
Anglican minister
First Nation Guide
Inuit Guide
Bay Chimo
Northstar
Staple Food
Drowning
Joe Nasogaluak is continuing and completing his storytelling about his life stories during the year of 1924.
Life and Times in 1925 by Joe Nasogaluak
1925
Search
Minister
Nomads
Qangmalit (Eastern Inuit)
Police
Indigenous Police Guides
Albert Johnson
Ice House
Seagulls
1916
Polar Bears
Tent Home
Beluga Whales
1921
Ships
Bowhead Whale
House
Ducks
Christmas
Elders Legends
Church Services
White Foxes
Minister Hester
Joe Nasogaluak is storytelling about his life stories during the year 1925.
1929
Boating
Berries
Births
Inupiaq
Flood
Pet Fox
Sails
Trader
Saigu (teepee style tents)
Death
Fears
Cards
Squirrels
Laura Lucas is telling her life stories. Part 1. To be continued.
Lucas, Laura
Residential School
Marriage
Drownings
Police Search
Earthquake
1940 or 1941
Jail
Dry Fish
Reindeer Herders
Gatherings
Waterproof Boots
Food Preparation
Seasonal Camps
Foxes
Gas Lamp
Traditional Lamp
Wolves
Laura Lucas is continuing her life stories. Part 2. To be continued.
Life Stories by Laura Lucas Final Part 3
Father Franche
Medicine
Ptarmigan
Visitors
Rabbits
Fishnet
Transportation
Reindeer Meat
Bones
Alcohol
Cigarettes
Peffer’s Restaurant
Laura Lucas is completing the final part 3, of her life stories.
Sail Boat
Shipwrecked
Radio host Ishmael Suuyuk Alunik airs Agnes Nigiyok who is telling the story of when they were sailing accross the ocean and got shipwrecked on the A Long Time Ago program.
Nigiyok, Agnes
Alunik, Ishmael Suuyuk
Parents
Siblings
Pack Dogs
Tents
Sail-Boating
Ice Fishing
Grandparents
Owls
Mukluks
Mar̂r̂a Mar̂r̂aaq (Prisoner Base) Game
Canoeing
Store
Mischief
Candy
Drum Dance
Mabel Steffanson is telling her life stories of her birth place, her family members, their travels, and more followed by Tommy Thrasher narrating the English version of Mabel’s stories. Part 1. To be continued.
Steffanson, Mabel
Thrasher, Tommy
Marriage Celebration
Gwich’in
Feast
Traditional Food
July Celebrations
Gathering
Dog Teams
Snaring
Dog Feed
Schooner
Mabel Steffanson is continuing to tell her life stories of her younger days. Part 2. To be continued.
Church Service
New Years
Eastern Inuit (Qangmalit)
Mabel Steffanson is continuing to tell her life stories of her younger days. Part 3. To be continued.
Prisoners Transported to Herschel Island by Joe Nasogaluak Part 1
Murder
Prisoner
Early 1920’s
Burial
Joe Nasogaluak is storytelling about police arresting men, in the early 1920’s, for murder, and were transporting themto Herschel Island. Note: Audio is very low. Part 1. To be continued.
Prisoners Transported to Herschel Island and Other Old Time Stories by Joe Nasogaluak Part 2
Court
Hanging
Captain Peterson
Food Scarcity
Dancing
Supply Ship
Tikigarmiut (Point Hope People)
North Star
Joe Nasogaluak is continuing the story about the police arresting Inuit men, in the early 1920’s, for murder, and transported them to Herschel Island and other old time stories from the years of 1918 to 1923. Note: Audio is very low. Final, Part 2.
Relations
Drum dancing
Dentist
English Language
Wildlife
Mabel Steffanson is continuing to tell her life stories of her younger days of traveling to the Mackenzie Delta, of being happy to use her brother’s dog team, and more. Part 4. To be continued.
Mabel Steffanson’s Life Stories Final Part 5
Eggs
Fishnet Fishing
Food Cache
Traditional Foods
Dreams
Big Flu Sickness
Prayer Group
Big Boats
Peterson’s Boat
White People
Homemade Sled
Fun Times
Mabel Steffanson is continuing to tell her life stories of her younger days of she and her family’s travels, of gathering eggs, fishing, a lot of deaths due to the big flu, of fun times, and more. Final, part 5.
Traditional Teachings
Animals
Snow House
Easter
Caribou Skin Tents
Canvas Tents
Caribou Fat
Traditional Lamps (Qulliq)
Alice Agnaoyak is storytelling of when she was a small child, of always going out hunting with her father, of hunting stories and more. Part 1. To be continued.
Angnaoyak, Alice
Sled Dogs
Sailing
Alice Agnaoyak is continuing her stories of when she was a small child, of traveling with her parents with their sled dogs, then with a rowboat in the summer, then adding sails if there was wind, and more. Part 2. To be continued.
Airplane
Hudson’s Bay Company
Food Poison
Alice Agnaoyak is continuing her stories of her younger days of polar bear hunting with her parents and her husband, of an airplane story, of food poisoning resulting in illnesses and deaths, and more. Part 3. To be continued.
Dewline
Caribou Hunting
Sales
Lifestyle Changes
Backpacking
Annual Food Supplies
Cleanliness
Garbage
Waste
Alice Agnaoyak is telling stories of she and her husband’s trapping and traveling days when the Dewline first started up, of polar bear encounter stories, caribou hunting stories, many travels and much more. Part 4. To be continued.
Nomadic Lifestyle
Camping
Walking
Wood gathering
Skidoos
Christmas Gatherings
Easter Gatherings
Modern Lifestyle
Caucasian Bosses
Alice Agnaoyak is reminiscing of the fun nomadic lifestyle they used to live long ago that included a lot of traveling out on the land and camping compared to nowadays, where she says they just stay inside sitting in the houses with little to do and the many other changes that they live nowadays. Note: A lot of background noise after the 19 minute mark. Part 5. To be continued.
Dogteams
Alice Agnaoyak is continuing her life stories of their travels, of where they lived, of various families and more. Part 6. To be continued.
Cargo Companies
Alice Agnaoyak is continuing her life stories of when her mother then her father fell ill and went to Edmonton, of cargo companies arriving, and more. Part 7. To be continued.
Landscape
Supplies
Language
Homes
Alice Agnaoyak is continuing her life stories as she describes the landscape of where they were living and the challenges of finding wood for heating, of her parents returning from Edmonton, and more. Part 8. To be continued.