Summer and Fall Journals by Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: Beluga Whale
subject: Hunting
subject: July
subject: Fishnet Fishing
subject: Dry Fish
subject: Family
subject: Various People
subject: Birthdays
subject: Visitors
subject: Bear
subject: August
subject: Chores
subject: Ice House
subject: Picnic
subject: Children
subject: School
subject: September
subject: Church Services
subject: Illness
subject: Marriage
subject: October
subject: Travels
subject: Medical
subject: Traditional Clothing
subject: Camsell Hospital
subject: Rabbits
subject: Snaring
subject: Ice Conditions
description: Mary Kailek is sharing her memories of she and her family’s activities during the summer and fall of their travels and living out on the land. Mary also mentions the visitors arriving to their camp, of passers by, of various chores, of sewing traditional clothing, of people that have passed on, and of some birthdays. She also speaks of her frustrations with the lifestyle changes of young people while living in a community, of Joey and Trudy getting married, and more.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

1937 Life Stories by Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: 1937
subject: Births
subject: Visitors
subject: Dances
subject: Record Player
subject: Christmas
subject: Relations
subject: Trapping
subject: Snow House
subject: Travels
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Hunting
subject: Waterfowl
subject: Various People
subject: Animals
subject: Tents
subject: July 1st Gathering
subject: Canada Day Activities
subject: Inuvialuit
subject: Gwich’in
subject: Dogs
subject: Siblings
subject: Employment
subject: Police
subject: Sewing
description: Mary Kailek is storytelling from the 1937 era, of when she was doing a lot of sewing, of visitors and listening to storytelling in the evenings, of their travels for Christmas and New Years, stories of her dad and Joe trapping and hunting stories, of her little brother Donald Kaglik, travels to Aklavik including when her dad was working for the police who were waiting for him there, of the many tents, of the July 1st Gathering of Gwich’in and Inuvialuit, then traveling on to Tuktoyaktuk when they’re were only tents, of raising and looking after her siblings and of keeping her late mom’s word, of more people, travels, and more.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Life Stories with Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: Christmas
subject: New Years
subject: Illnesses
subject: Deaths
subject: Travels
subject: Bombardier
subject: Police
subject: Doctor
subject: Dog Team
subject: Trapping
subject: Muskrats
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Various People
subject: Beluga Whale
subject: Hunting
subject: Court Case
subject: Births
subject: Dancing
subject: Beaver
subject: Waterfowl
subject: Drowning
subject: Sewing
subject: Traditional Clothing
subject: Edmund River
subject: Life Boat
description: 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.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Life Stories and a Bear Legend with Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: Fishnet
subject: Snares
subject: Fish Sales
subject: Ram Air
subject: Committee for Original People's Entitlement (COPE)
subject: Sewing
subject: Trapping
subject: Alcohol
subject: Faith
subject: God
subject: Christmas
subject: Salvation
subject: Bear Legend
subject: Travels
subject: Family
subject: Friends
subject: Camsell Hospital
subject: Various People
description: 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.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Kublualuk The Shaman and Other Stories by Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: Kublualuq
subject: Shaman
subject: Police
subject: Manigaatchiaq
subject: Kanayuk
subject: Seal
subject: Hunting
subject: 1939
subject: 1940
subject: Inuvialuktun Name
description: Mary Kailek is telling stories of Kublualuk the shaman and other old time stories, and ends with a personal story.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

More Summer and Fall Journals with Mary Kailek Part 1
subject: Storytelling
subject: Lifestyle
subject: Muskrat Hunting
subject: Illness
subject: Family
subject: Search
subject: Travels
subject: Fishnet
subject: Births
subject: Birthdays
subject: Beluga Whale Hunting
subject: Money
subject: Prayers
subject: Faith
description: Mary Kailek shares her journal of July to August activities of her travels, hunts, the search for Archie, and pf her lifestyle with her family out on the land, of her frustrations with lifestyle changes regarding money, and speaks of her prayers and faith in God, and more. To be continued.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

More Summer and Fall Journals with Mary Kailek Part 2
subject: Storytelling
subject: Faith
subject: Travels
subject: Fishnets
subject: Family
subject: Hunting
subject: Deaths
subject: Lifestyle
subject: Rabbits
subject: Snaring
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Illness
subject: Sewing
subject: Traditional Clothing
subject: Medical
subject: Picture Show
subject: Freeze Up
subject: Church Services
subject: Search
description: Mary Kailek continues sharing from her summer journals of her faith, of she and her family’s lifestyle and activities, of their travels, of hunting, fishing, snaring, of a missing person search, of the traditional clothing that she’d sew and her sales, of medicals, and more.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Mary Kailek’s Memories of Her Younger Days Part 1
subject: Storytelling
subject: Sewing
subject: Traditional Clothing
subject: Police
subject: Caribou Clothing
subject: Trapping
subject: Travels
subject: Canalaska
subject: Semmler’s Store
subject: Various People
subject: Christmas Gathering
subject: Dog Teams
subject: Snow Houses
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Games
subject: Hudson Bay
subject: Alaskans
subject: Nunamiut
subject: Kuguarmiut
subject: Births
subject: Shamans
subject: Eastern Inuit
subject: Ministers
subject: Stores
subject: Language
subject: Medical
subject: Staples
subject: Muskrat Hunting
subject: Schooners
subject: Mangilaaluk
subject: Special Constable
subject: Remarriage
subject: St Roch RCMP Schooner
subject: Henry Larson
subject: Hunting
description: "Mary Kailek is storytelling of her younger days, of when she’d sew traditional caribou clothing for the police, of the various people, of the Christmas gatherings with the arrival of many with dog teams, the traditional food, and describes the snow houses that were made, and the games that were played, of the Nunamiut and Kuugyuarmiut, and Alaskans various styles of beautiful clothing, of shamans. She also speaks of muskrat season in the Delta, of the many schooners, and many people eating outside, he Distributor boat, her father being a special constable in Iqaluktuuttiaq and feeling afraid to go to the East and of the Eastern Inuit, and a comical story of watching teenagers preparing a swan for cooking and trying to communicate with the langauge barrier and more. One of the stories repeats at the 42 minute mark, then continues the rest of the story around the 53:23 minute mark. Part 1. To be continued."
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuinnaqtun
type: Audio

Mary Kailek’s Memories of Her Younger Days Part 2
subject: Storytelling
subject: Travels
subject: Square Dance
subject: St. Roch Schooner
subject: Motorized Scow
subject: Alcohol
description: Mary is continuing the story of their travels on the St. Roch Schooner from the previous story, of the square dance when they arrived to their destination, of seeing Iqaluktuuttiaq for the first time, and the story ends abruptly at 11:04 and other non-related audio is recorded which sounds like an office setting.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Stories from 1930 to 1939 by Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: 1930
subject: Eastern Inuit
subject: Shamanism
subject: Trapping
subject: Various People
subject: Animals
subject: Hunting
subject: Jacobsons
subject: Relations
subject: Dad
subject: 1939
subject: Employment
subject: Police
subject: Hudson Bay Store
subject: Language
description: Mary Kailek is storytelling of the fall of 1930 when she went to Utqaluk (Baillie Island) and of some who went to Pierce Point where there were many Eastern Inuit living there at that time, of stories she heard of Eastern Inuit and shamanism, and of when they went to Iqaluktuuttiaq in 1939 when her dad was working for the police and helping them.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Life Stories and Memories from 1920 by Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: Birth Place
subject: Hunting
subject: Relatives
subject: Various People
subject: Travels
subject: Births
subject: 1920
subject: Schooners
subject: Record Player
subject: Store
subject: Fishnet Fishing
subject: Northstar Schooner
subject: Animals
subject: Church Service
subject: Funeral
subject: Tents
subject: Illness
subject: Mangilaaluk
subject: Employment
subject: Deaths
subject: Trapping
subject: Hudson Bay
subject: 10 Horse Kicker
subject: Elders
subject: Influenza
description: 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.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Stories and Legends by Mary Kailek Part 1
subject: Storytelling
subject: Ruler
subject: Orphan
subject: Large Bird
subject: Marriage
subject: Kidnapped
subject: Dogs
subject: Daughter(s)
description: Mary Kailek is telling a story that was already in progress about the legend of an orphan who sets off in search for the women who were kidnapped including a ruler's daughters followed by another legend of an aging discouraged father whose daughter keeps refusing offers of a husband. Part 1. To be continued.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Stories and Legends Part 2 by Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: Legends
subject: Death
subject: Relations
subject: First Nations
subject: Inuvialuit
subject: Trapping
subject: Animals
subject: Lifestyle
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Hunting
subject: Gathering
subject: Shamanism
description: Mary Kailek is continuing (repeating initial part of the story) a legend from the previous story where the daughter refuses to marry a man, then tells a short personal story of an unusual sighting from her younger days, followed by a First Nations legend that she heard from Joe Gully, as well as a legend that she heard from her friend while at the Campsell Hospital. Mary then shares a personal story of her friend, and tells another legend of a man who wakes up with nothing along the coast, survives, and sets out on a mission. Part 2. To be continued.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Stories and Legends Part 3 by Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: Legends
subject: Animals
subject: Shamanism
description: Mary Kailek is telling more legends including of a man who could turn himself into other things to achieve his goals, of people living along the ocean shore, and more. Part 3. To be continued.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Stories and Legends Part 4 by Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: Legends
subject: Friend
subject: Wives
subject: Hunting
subject: Children
subject: Travels
subject: Family
subject: Muskrats
description: Mary Kailek is completing the legend from the previous legend, then tells a personal short story from when she was at Campsell Hospital, and ends with a legend that she heard from her friend Melanie from Taloyoak (Spence Bay) about a man who had five wives. The 12:25 minute mark changes to a personal story of when they were out muskrat hunting and traveling out on the land, then he story ends abruptly.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Life Stories and Journals of Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: Journals
subject: Hunting
subject: Travels
subject: Family
subject: Muskrats
subject: Fishing
subject: Beluga Whale
subject: Visitors
subject: Medicals
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Summer
subject: Shamans
description: 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.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Stories Journals and Memories by Mary Kailek
subject: Storytelling
subject: Shamanism
subject: Animals
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Clothing
subject: Lifestyle Changes
subject: Hunting
subject: Fishing
subject: Trapping
subject: Snaring
subject: Medicals
subject: Travels
subject: Wood
subject: Wildlife
subject: Visitors
subject: Christmas
subject: Memories
description: Stories start with a repeated story from previous old time story that was already in progress that Mary Kailek heard from Itualuk. Mary also speaks about lifestyle changes from their very traditinoal active and busy lifestyle to a life of ease and less activity. She also shares her journal of she and her family members activities: of hunting, trapping, snaring, fishing, medicals, travels, getting wood, wildlife harvests, and visitors. The story then suddenly changes at the 31:12 minute mark to when she was a young woman with two children and shares memories around Christmas time then the story ends abruptly.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

1942 and 1943 Memories and Life Stories by Mary Kailek Pt 1
subject: Storytelling
subject: Hunting
subject: Trapping
subject: Memories
subject: Harvests
subject: Travels
subject: Family
subject: Children
subject: Sewing
subject: Various People
subject: Dances
subject: Gatherings
subject: Christmas
description: Mary Kailek’s storytelling starts off with some of the latter story repeated from the previous story of when she was younger around Christmas time then Mary continues sharing her memories: of when she just had two children when her son Alex Kaglik was around seven years old, of her family members, of when her brother Donald Kaglik would walk to his traps, of sewing for her family members and herself last, of hunting, trapping, harvests, various people, travels, vistors, illness’, drum dances, picture shows, square dances, and of the many people present at the large gatherings. Story ends abruptly at the 31:53 minute mark. Part 1. To be continued.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

1942 and 1943 Memories and Life Stories by Mary Kailek Pt 2
subject: Storytelling
subject: Trapping
subject: Family
subject: Easter
subject: Travels
subject: Dogs
subject: Christmas
subject: Peffer’s Hotel
subject: Various People
subject: Deaths
subject: Employment
subject: Wildlife
subject: Scow
subject: Ernie Lacombe
subject: Frame Tents
subject: Hunting
subject: Tuberculosis
subject: Cancer
subject: Hospital
subject: School
subject: Hudson Bay Store
subject: Flu Epidemic
description: Mary Kailek is continuing to share her memories from 1942 and 1943 of: she and her family’’s activities such as hunting, trapping, of various people, of their travels, of going to Aklavik for Easter, Peffer’s Hotel, Banksland people who flew to Aklavik for the summer, of deaths and funerals, Annie’s employment, low prices of tents, of sewing traditional clothing, of the many hospitalised with Tuberculosis and some with cancer, and the flu epidemic, and more.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Fond Memories of Younger Days by Mary Kailek Pt 1.
subject: Storytelling
subject: Hudson Bay Store
subject: Deaths
subject: Various People
subject: Travels
subject: Hunting
subject: Relations
subject: Family
subject: Wildlife
subject: Church Services
subject: Parents
subject: Employment
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Dogs
subject: Trapping
subject: Police Staff
subject: Friends
subject: Language Barrier
subject: Humorous
subject: Dances
subject: Money
subject: Sewing
subject: Barge
subject: Rat Sunday Services
description: Mary Kailek is storytelling of when they were at Avvaq, of various people, of mourning for her uncle Kimiksan, of her relations with others, of their travels including to Tuktoyaktuk and then to Aklavik, of her parents, and shares more fond memories of her younger days including when her dad used to work at the Hudson Bay Company, of hunting and trapping, of traditional food, of the few houses in Tuktoyaktuk, of church services, and of the intoxicated poilce staff, of her friends, of some comical stories, the dances she wished to go to, of her mother sewing, of the supply ships arriving, and of Rat Sunday Services, and more. Part 1. To be continued.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Fond Memories of Younger Days by Mary Kailek Pt 2.
subject: Storytelling
subject: Life Stories
subject: Supply ships
subject: Gwich’in
subject: Inuvialuit
subject: Caucasians
subject: Gathering
subject: Feasts
subject: Police
subject: Court
subject: Flu Epidemic
subject: Deaths
subject: 1928
subject: 1929
subject: 1930
subject: Trapping
subject: Employment
subject: Hudson Bay
subject: 10 Horse Power Kicker
subject: Hunting
description: Mary Kailek is continuing to share her memories from the previous story, of the supply ships that arrived with an abundance of food followed by feasting with gathering of Gwich’in, Inuvialuit, and Caucasians, of court, of her father working for the Hudson Bay, of the flu epidemic that many died from including her sister Alice, of their travels, of her dad going trapping, of staying with the Carpenters for a couple of months when Frank Carpenter was a baby, and more. Part 2. To be continued.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Fond Memories of Younger Days by Mary Kailek Pt 3
subject: Storytelling
subject: Travels
subject: Memories
subject: Minister
subject: Life Stories
subject: Father France
subject: Dentist
subject: Hudson Bay Boat
subject: Tents
subject: Northstar
subject: Schooners
subject: Various People
subject: Daughter
subject: Family
subject: Fort Roch
subject: Police Boat
subject: 1939
subject: Advice
subject: Sewing
subject: Traditional Clothing
description: Mary Kailek is sharing more life stories from long ago of their travels, shares some funny stories, of clean ice water, of she and other’s having to go to Aklavik for their tooth extractions, arrival of the Hudson Bay Boat, the numerous tents, and the schooners, and more. The storytelling switches to a more recent past and she shares more life stories of her family, her travels, her relatives, and fond memories of when her daughter Jessie was small. Mary then tells more life stories from an earlier time when traveling to various communities like Kugluktuk, Nunavut on the Police boat, Fort Roch, in 1939, the year her brother Donald Kaglik got hurt, then on to Ulukhaktok, N.T., of advice she was given on sewing traditional clothing for her family, and some humorous stories and more.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Fond Memories of Younger Days by Mary Kailek Pt 4
subject: Storytelling
subject: Rat Sunday Services
subject: Faith
subject: Predictions
subject: Employment
subject: Family
subject: Hudson Bay
subject: Dogs
subject: Wood
subject: Ice
subject: Various People
subject: Parents
subject: Scow
subject: Schooner
subject: Tents
subject: Travels
subject: Flu Epidemic
subject: Residential School
subject: Deaths
subject: Fishnet Fishing
subject: Berries
subject: Traditional Food
subject: 1928
subject: Inuvialuit
subject: Gwich’in
subject: Caucasian
subject: 1929
subject: Food Preparation
subject: Food Storage
subject: Peterson
subject: Bay Chimo
subject: Birth
subject: Hunting
subject: Animals
subject: Wildlife Regulations
subject: Transportation
subject: Lifestyle Changes
subject: Special Constable
description: Mary Kailek is continuing her life stories sharing more memories of when she was younger when her dad worked with the Hudson Bay Company, when her mom would be sewing, of the rat sunday services, of her travels with her parents, of various people, of the flu illness then of the kids, who lost family members, that were going to the school, of fishnet fishing, of berry picking, of the delicious traditional food, of the food preparation and food storage, of how they would eat and utilise all parts of the animals for food, of the few Inuvialuit, Gwich’in, and Caucasians who were living in Aklavik when they moved there around 1928, as well as the few houses that were there. She also speaks of the all the animals that were hunted when nothing was wasted unlike nowadays where there is unnecessary wastage, about transportation long ago versus today, of lifestyle and changes, of when her dad worked as a special constable, of their many travels, and much more.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Life stories by Mary Kailek Part 1
subject: Storytelling
subject: Lifestyle
subject: Storekeepers
subject: Hunting
subject: Various People
subject: Family
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Travels
subject: Births
subject: Deaths
subject: Illnesses
description: 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.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Life stories by Mary Kailek Part 2
subject: Storytelling
subject: Employment
subject: Police
subject: Hunting
subject: Waterfowl
subject: Parents
subject: Siblings
subject: Death
subject: Animals
subject: Travels
subject: Medical
subject: Tents
subject: Ice House
subject: Traditional Food
description: 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.
creator: Kailek, Mary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio