Frank Cockney Interviews Tom Avakgak Final Part 7 and Part 8
Storytelling
Interview
Lifestyle
Hunting
Animals
Trapping
Various Families
Travels
Staples
Dogs
Frank Cockney continues interviewing Tom Avakgak about his travels, hunting, trapping, and life stories. Final Part 7 and part 8.
Cockney, Frank
Avakgak, Tom
Inuvialuktun
Committee for Original People's Entitlement (COPE)
Report
Anglican Bishop
Delegates
Mi'kmaq
Priests
Meetings
Indigenous Peoples
Church Service
Prayer
Caucasian People
Government
Travel
Old School Building
First Nation
Frank Cockney is giving a COPE report about the national meeting he and two others attended in Toronto, Ontario.
Cockney, Frank Uvvayuaq
Name
Community
Frank Cockney mentions that he forgot to say his name and where he’s from in regards to the prevous report about the national meeting he and two others attended in Toronto, Ontario.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 1 and Part 2
Traditional Lifestyle
1930
1932
Grandparents
Old Dennis
1929
Lap Landers
Reindeer Herders
Language
Traditional Food
Food Cache
Dog Training
Lonely
Schooners
Hudson Bay Store
Peterson Store
Alcohol
Gathering
Dancing
Police
Wood Piles
1933
Visitors
Custom Adoption
Names
Ice House
Frank Cockney is storytelling his life stories of when he was growing up with his grandparents, observing his grandfather and learning the traditional way of life from his grandparents, of the laplanders that were reindeer herding and staying with them, of how his grandfather trained and raised his pups for dogteams, and more. Part 1 and 2. To be continued.
Iñupiatun
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 3 and Part 4
1934
Nomadic
1935
Fishing
Log Houses
Wildlife
Easter
Dog Teams
1936
Grandfather’s Teachings
Fiddle and Guitar Jam
Boating
Frank Cockney is storytelling his life stories of when he was younger with growing up and travelling with his grandparents, of their traditional nomadic lifestyle, of trapping stories, of going to their fishing place, and more. To be continued. Note: This segment includes some music. Part 3 and 4. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 5 and Part 6
1937
Trapping Economy
Wage Economy
Employment
1950
Flooding
Peffer’s Restaurant
Grandfather’s Wisdom
Work Ethics
Recreation
Children
Fishnet
1938
Elders Traditional Knowledge
Store
Christmas
Adoption
Deaths
Oil Companies
Drilling
Camp Jobs
Frank Cockney is storytelling of his life with his grandparents, of their many travels, of hunting and trapping stories, and shares his grandfather’s words of wisdom, and more. Part 5 and 6. To be continued. Note: The audio has some background noise that makes it less clear to listen to. Part 5 and 6. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 7 and Part 8
Reindeer Herding
Various People
Grandfather
Dog Team
Mangilaaluk
1940
Boats
1933 to 1935
Illness
Father Franche
Inlaws
Snow House
Frank Cockney is storytelling of when he was a young man and newly married, of his dogs and dog team, of hunting and trapping stories, of Mangilaauk passing away, and more. Note: Unidentified singer/speaker around the 25 minute mark. Part 7 and 8. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 9
Trading Post Store
1941
1942
Religious Father’s
Coal Heating
Dog Feed
Flu
Frank Cockney is storytelling of when he was a young man and travelling, hunting, and trapping foxes with his inlaws including when the wolves kept eating their trapped foxes, when families worked and helped each other, hearing that people were sick with the flu, and more. Part 9. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 10
Fur Trade Economy
Semmler
Old Ross
Money
Income Tax Refunds
Frank Cockney is storytelling of their travels, of the fur trading economy, of the store keeper Old Ross, of stories of alcohol, of making money, and starting to receive income tax refunds, of when Dave Jones used to look after the Post Office, of various families, and more. Part 10. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 11 and Part 12
1943
Traveling
Racing
Ice Conditions
July Games
Poker Games
1944
Bear Monitor
Death
Gwich’in Language
Frank Cockney is storytelling of his travels, of various families, where they lived, of fun times when he and others would hunt together and race back home with their dogs, of playing poker with whitefoxes, of treacherous ice and open water conditions that Michael was travelling on but this dog team swam and pulled him to shore despite one dog drowning, of working as a bear monitor at Rig 10, and much more. Part 11 and 12. To be continued. Note: There is music between stories.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 13 and Part 14 A
Boat
Homemade Brew
Lead Dogs
Ice Fishing
Fishnet Fishing
Snaring
1945
Wage Employment
1946
Lifestyles
Advice
Frank Cockney is storytelling of when he and his wife would either stay with his inlaws but moreso with his grandparents who adopted and raised him, of mustkrat hunting, of trapping, of his grandfather who was monitoring to see how he could handle and look after the boat, of having a very good lead dog that led them right to their tent in the thick fog, of his wife who was always busy fishing, snaring animals, trapping, and making $2.00 per day when many of them began to join the wage economy at Army Camp. Frank also gives advice on money management and of the importance of teaching the younger generation, and much more. Part 13 and 14A. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 13 and 14 B Continued.
New Years
Frank Cockney is storytelling of when his grandfather was preparing him to become more independent so he doesn’t suffer when he’s no longer around, of Christmas and New Year’s gatherings, of the Reindeer Herders joining themf or Christmas, of raising and caring for his dog teams, and more. Part 13 and 14 B. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 15 and Part 16 and Some of Part 17
1947
Registered Traplines
Cabins
Mink Farm
Semmler’s Store
1957
Lifestyle Changes
Schools
Modern Transportation
1977
Oil Exploration
Big Salaries
Past Elders
1948
Mining
Drinking
Illnesses
Stores
Peffers
Bear Monitors
1955
1956
Government and Oil Company Partners
Government’s Broken Promises
1949
Frank Cockney is storytelling of when his grandmother, his father in law, then mother in law passed away, of his grandfather's independence, of he and his wife’s and many other’s registered traplines, of living a worry free healthy traditional lifestyle, of hunting, fishing, snaring, trapping, of using their dog teams, one set of dog teams belonging to his wife, of Slim Semmler’s store and mink farm at Napoyak and his employees, of the construction of Inuvik in 1956/57, of people hardly living in the bush and the decrease in the trapping lifestyle began, with the young people’s lack of interest in the traditional lifestyle, since Inuvik was built and much more. Part 15, 16, and some of 17. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 17 Part 18 and some of Part 19
Police Investigation
Estate
Will
Beluga Whale Hunting
Gold
Alcohol Problems
1953
Fur Trade
Charge Accounts
Semmler’s
Suicide
Climate Change
Pipeline
Government Promises
People
Frank Cockney is storytelling of when his late famoun grandfather who had many friends and who was not well but stlll very fit and wanted to go mining, so he, his grandfather, Tom Elanik, Harry, Abe Auktalik Okpik, Owen , his grandfather, left towards Paulatuuq, and his grandfather suddenly passed away at that time, followed by a poilice investigation, his grandfather’s estate and will, then when he started living in the Delta, and more. Part 17, 18, and some of 19. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 19
Family
Sister
Grandfather’s advice
Alex Steffanson
Food for Hunting
Weather
Land
Frank Cockney is storytelling of when he lived in the Delta, of people, the weather, the government all being different from when he was young, prior to many people living on one place, of his home near Aklavik, of travelling with dogsleds prior to skidoos, of hunting and trapping stories, of his grandfather’s advice, including only hunting what you need, of his dog teams, of his two small children, of he and his wife working and traveling together, fishnet fishing, snaring, and of Alex Steffanson’s traditional knowledge, and more. Part 19. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 20
Eastern Inuit (Qangmalit)
North Star
Police Men
Training
Meeting Updates
Frank Cockney is storytelling of his trapping stories, of his travels with his family, of going to the store with his dogsled and purchasing dry goods, of caring for their dogs and dog teams, of his 10 to 12 year old son hunting small game, of traveling with his brother in laws and others to Banksland with the abundance of wildlife there, of going to Ulukhaktok for Easter and some of his brother in laws returning to the Delta for Easter, of traveling to Ikaahuk, of running into Fred Carpenter and a couple of policemen who like to have fun and they had a dance. Frank also provides updates on various meetings regarding training local people for employment and Co-ops and Inuit Tapirisat meetings.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 21 and Part 22
Liquor Store
Dewline
1954
Fatal Poisonings
Airplanes
Bombardier
Accordion Dances
Frank Cockney is storytelling of his travels including to Aklavik where alcohol purchases were just opened to Indigenous people after initially only Caucasians were allowed to purchase alcohol from the Liquor store, of hauling stuff for Fred Carpenter, of trapping in the fur trade economy while raising his family from their cabin in the Delta, of when Dewline started in the summer of 1955, of the poker games at the Dewline, and of three people dying from poison while they were drinking, of a lot of money around when the Dewline provided employment, working at Bar 1 and Bar 2, then starting to stay at Tuktoyaktuk since the summer of 1956, and much more.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 23 and Part 24
D-C3 Plane
Heavy Equipment Training
Frank Cockney is storytelling of his experiences of when he flew to Edmonton on a D-C3 Plane for heavy equipment training in Leduc joining thirty five other Indigenous people from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, including his medical and dental work, then returning home and starting to work. Part 23 and 24. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 25
Kickers
Helping
Sharing
Traditional Knowledge
Plane
Frank Cockney is storytelling of his traditional knowledge of the weather, of his travels, of his employment and wages, of staying in Tuktoyaktuk, of purchasing a new boat and kicker and following his wife’s instructions, helped other’s hunt beluga whale, as he said she was the boss of the food, as well as thinking of his grandfather’s teachings of helping and others, and of boating experiences from the era of using schooners with sails and engines long ago to switchng to boats and faster, bigger and bigger kickers for traveling and hunting that made for much easier and quicker hunting trips when beluga whale hunting and more. Part 25. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 26
1959
1958
1960
Transportation
Holidays
Elders
Frank Cockney, aged 54 at the time of his storytelling is sharing his life stories for the future generations to hear and understand, of returning to the Dewline, of their homes, of his sons and daughters, of passing on his traditional knowledge to his sons who told him they can take over the hunting for him, of lifestyle changes, of traditional teachings, of advice to young people including to respect their parents and their traditional knowlege, shares his grandparent’s advice regarding relational living with others, of being human and making mistakes, of some Elders that have passed on, of some of the present Elders that are middle aged, and much more words of wisdom. Part 26. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 27 and Part 28 and Joe Nasogaluak Drum Songs
Business
Furshop
Inuvialuit and Inupiaq Drum Songs
Skidoos
Inupiaq
Inuktitut
Sallirmiutun
Language Dialects
Uummarmiutun
Oil Company Money
Obesity
Frank Cockney is storytelling for future generations to hear. Frank is telling stories about when he started running his business, of the trials and errors of learning how to run a business, of trapping with Eddy, of his previous Heavy Equipment training that came in handy when reparing the bombadier, and of opening roads with the bomadier due to having knowledge of the land and rivers. Joe Nasogaluk then explains the history of each of the drum songs, then sings the drum songs. Frank then continues telling stories of his hunting and trapping days when he was younger prior to skidoos using dog teams, then the arrival of the first types of skidoos, of the challenges of using skidoos and a bombadier, of his and other’s travels, of the nomadic lifestyle long ago of families living amongst each other or by themselves, living in tents, of staple food, of everything being taken from their old cabin, of going to Tuktoyaktuk, of Herring Fish and Beluga Whales arriving, of the different dialects of Inuvialuit that he can switch back and forth to, of the Inuktitut language in Iqaluit, of when the oil companies first arrived with the all the money, with the life of ease, and the lifestyle changes that came from living in a community versus the traditional lifestyle of hunting and trapping, and the obesity that followed with the spoiled that the modern lifestyle brought. Part 27 and part 28. To be continued.
Nasogaluk, Joe
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 29
Land Claims
Canadian Arctic Gas
Frank Cockney is storytelling for the next generations to hear, and says this generation is different, of when he went to Tuktoyaktuk, of learning about the animals and fish and the traditional lifestyle from his grandparents, of when he was younger, of drinking alcohol and the problems that came with it and when he quit drinking and why he quit drinking, of when he started training and working with the land claims with Agnes and Annie C Gordon, of when and how he became involved with COPE, Commitee of People’s Entitilement, of being involved in meetings, giving advice regarding how to live the right way. Part 29. To be continued. Note: The last three minutes does not have any storytelling.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 30
Wages
Oil Company
Base Camp
Rig 3
Road Construction
Heavy Equipment
Frank Cockney is storytelling about when he and others worked at the base camp and at Rig 3 for the oil company, of when he and his son and others got hired to help build a road which became an annual job and when he also worked as a camp attendant when the road construction season was completed. Part 30. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 31 and Part 32
Camp Attendant
Holiday
Can Mar
Explorer 1
Explorer 2
Frank Cockney is continuing his stories of the shift work that he was doing as a camp attendant at the oil company in Tuktoyaktuk, of when he and Saumik would walk to work since they lived in Tuk, until he bought a skidoo then he’d drive to work, of taking time off for a hunting holiday, then took time off work for a few months as per doctors orders since he fell ill and more. Frank also speaks about climate change, about people changing, about hearing about climate change as well in the South with people freezing there, and the weather getting warmer in the North during the months when it should be cold, etc., about the new people changing about always wanting and asking their parents for money, compared to their generation who doesn’t bother their parents for thing like that, and learned these things from his observations, of interviewing people, and tells these things so that the young can understand and to help the next generation, and about since Inuvik started up, and with the big salaries with the oil companies, of not living right, of Can Mar Explorer One and Two, and the new hires have affected change in people. Part 31 and 32. To be continued.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 33 and Part 34
Houses
1968
1969
Shift Work
Wolves
Seismic
Frank Cockney is storytelling of when they first went to Tuktoyaktuk, mentioning all the families that he recalls who had homes there and some of the families that moved on including the then Anglican minister Jim Edwards Sr., Frank says the houses were put there in 1976 and we are in the year 1977, and that people’s culture is getting different where people used to hunt to make a living and now that oil companies are here, they want money and are living that way now. Now we even forget our relatives and try to make a living that way. Frank also remembers when the Canmar boats first arrived to Tuktoytaktuk to begin oil exploration work and describes the work he and others were doing for the oil company. Part 33 and 34. To be continued. Note: There is no audio from the 46:48 minute mark right through to the end.