Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 20
Storytelling
Travels
Dog Teams
Trapping
Wildlife
Easter
Store
Staples
Eastern Inuit (Qangmalit)
Various Families
Hunting
Reindeer Herders
North Star
Police Men
Dancing
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.
Cockney, Frank Uvvayuaq
Inuvialuktun
Iñupiatun
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 21 and Part 22
Liquor Store
Dewline
1955
1954
1956
Poker Games
Drinking
Fatal Poisonings
Deaths
Employment
Money
Airplanes
Fishnet Fishing
Children
Bombardier
Father Franche
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
Alcohol
Wage Employment
Fishing
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
Boating
Schooners
Boats
Kickers
Beluga Whale Hunting
Helping
Sharing
Traditional Knowledge
Plane
Flooding
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
Animals
Transportation
Holidays
Lifestyle Changes
Elders
1930
1940
Advice
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
Lifestyle
Land Claims
Oil Companies
Canadian Arctic Gas
Meetings
Government
Committee for Original People's Entitlement (COPE)
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 3 and Part 4
1934
1933
Nomadic
1935
Hudson Bay Store
Log Houses
1936
Grandfather’s Teachings
Fiddle and Guitar Jam
Traditional Lifestyle
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 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.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 35 and Final Part 36
1967
1973
Caucasian
Field Work
Pipelines
Giving
Frank Cockney is storytelling of when he was working for the oil company in Tuktoyaktuk, of his holidays, and of when he’d work on first winter road construction in 1967, of working with Caucasion people, of when he began working for the land claim in 1973, of he and Charlie Gruben’s frustations when the oil company staff who would use their Inuvialuit traditional knowledge, take credit for the work that they did then get themselves promoted with pay increases and not crediting them for their work and knowledge that they did, and compares the Caucasian culture and way of doing things to the Inuvialuit traditional way of life and culture and the way the Inuvialuit people do things, of he and his family combining their tradititional way of life with the new way of life of employment with wages, including when he tried his hand at running a business for a while. Frank then describes the early work in 1959/1960 with day and night work, ofthe numerous trucks hauling and heavy equipment operators working around Yaa Yaa Lakes, and says he’s speaking for the future generations to hear with helpful advice with his personal life stories and teachings. Part 35 and final part 36.
Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 5 and Part 6
1937
Trapping Economy
Wage Economy
1950
Dogs
Peffer’s Restaurant
Grandfather’s Wisdom
Work Ethics
Recreation
Fishnet
1938
Elders Traditional Knowledge
Christmas
Adoption
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
1933 to 1935
Illness
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
Traditional Food
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.
Franklin Bay
Smoking Hills
Ocean
A photo of Franklin Bay and Smoking Hills.
Digital images
Portrait photographs
Hunt, Maureen
Hunt, Fraser
Armed Forces
Uniforms
Hunt, David E., 1925-
Transport Plane
Clothing and dress
Winter
A photo of Fraser Hunt standing by a plane.
A photo of Fraser Hunt standing on a snow bank on the Arctic shore.
Lakes
A photo of Fraser Hunt standing on a hill, with people walking to a plane on a lake in the background.
Taken during the Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island) Cultural Study for the Inuvialuit Social Development Program.
Tousignant, John (Photographer)
Fred and Lucy Inglangasuk interview, 1990/07/10
Inglangasuk, Fred
Inglangasuk, Lucy
Fishing nets
Fur
Carpenter, Fred
Goose, Tommy
A photo of Fred Carpenter and Tommy Goose talking to each other with a fish net in front of them.
Usher, Peter
English
Peter Usher's Tape 4A, Peter Usher's Tape 4B
A photo of Elder Fred Inglangasuk sitting at a table.