Lifestyle Long Ago Interview with Elder William Kuptana
subject: Storytelling
subject: Interview
subject: Lifestyle
subject: Hunting
subject: Hiking
subject: Traditional Hunting Methods
subject: Seasonal Camps
subject: Inukshuit
subject: Handcrafted Traditional Hunting and Fishing Tools
subject: Traditional Fishing Methods
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Traditional Shelter Homes
subject: Dogs
subject: Animals
subject: Food Storage
subject: Seals
subject: Polar Bears
subject: Water Fowl
description: William Kuptana is interviewed by his daughter Rosemary Kuptana about how he and others lived long ago when he was younger, about their hunting and fishing methods, about their traditional hunting and fishing handcrafted tools, about their shelters, of when he also hunted prior to guns and fishnets, and much more regarding their lifestyle prior to contact with White people. Note: The beginning part of the story is repeated from he previous lifestyle interview and after the interview around the last minute mark is a muffled interview with an unidentified woman.
creator: Kuptana, William
creator: Kuptana, Rosemary
date: [197-]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Memories of Childhood Interview with Bessie Lennie Part 1
subject: Storytelling
subject: Interview
subject: Lifestyle
subject: Hunting
subject: Traveling
subject: Hiking
subject: Animals
subject: Arranged Marriage
subject: Family
subject: Birthday
subject: Parents
subject: Siblings
subject: Memories
subject: Traditional Knowledge
subject: Traditional Tools
subject: Games
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Food Caches
subject: Dog Teams
subject: Visiting
description: Rosemary Kuptana interviews Bessie Lennie about her memories of her lifestyle long ago such as her birth place, age, family, lifestyle including life on the land, of when she first started to remember things as a young child, traditional lifeskills she learned how to do, tools they used, places they traveled, games they played, things she really enjoyed doing, things that scared her, and some life threatening experiences, and much more. To be continued.
creator: Lennie, Bessie
creator: Kuptana, Rosemary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuinnaqtun
type: Audio

Memories of Childhood Interview with Bessie Lennie Part 1 Continued
subject: Storytelling
subject: Interview
subject: Lifestyle
subject: Dogs
subject: Travels
subject: Hard Times
subject: Food Shortage
subject: Hunting
subject: Dog Feed
subject: Survival
description: Rosemary Kuptana is completing the interview with Bessie Lennie about her memories of her lifestyle long ago when as living off off the land when she and her husband were returning and traveling back home while running short of food including running short of dogfeed.
creator: Lennie, Bessie
creator: Kuptana, Rosemary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuinnaqtun
type: Audio

Adult Memories and Lifestyles Past and Present Interview with Bessie Lennie
subject: Storytelling
subject: Interview
subject: Lifestyle Changes
subject: Education
subject: Transportation
subject: Family
subject: Hunting
subject: Trapping
subject: Working
subject: Parenting
subject: Travel
subject: Children
subject: Death
subject: Inuinnaqtun
subject: Disrespectful
subject: Wasteful
subject: Church
subject: Clothing
subject: Laziness
description: Rosemary Kuptana continues to interview Bessie Lennie about her lifestyle as a young adult, of a dog team trip with her husband that almost cost them their lives, then of having to raise her children on her own when her husband passed away, of the many changes she has witnessed in a short few years, such as loss of language, community living, modern day school education, young people being disrespectful to parents, of modern transportation replacing traditional ways of traveling, seemingly useless purchases, and the very different way of life that they now live, and more.
creator: Lennie, Bessie
creator: Kuptana, Rosemary
date: [197-?]
language: Inuinnaqtun
type: Audio

Sarah Kuptana Lifestyle Interview
subject: Oral History
subject: Storytelling
subject: Interview
subject: Lifestyle
subject: Illness
subject: Death
subject: Hunting
subject: Snaring
subject: Travels
subject: Homes
subject: Animals
subject: Genealogy
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Traditional Clothing
subject: Food Cache
subject: Fishing
subject: Various Families
subject: Traditional Tools
description: 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.
description: This recording is from the Aulavik Oral History Project undertaken by the Inuvialuit Social Development Program.
creator: White, Agnes
creator: Kuptana, Sarah
date: July 3, 1996
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio
identifier: Aulavik 61

Elders Sarah Kuptana and Elmira Soupay Send Greetings
subject: Greetings
subject: Family
subject: Friends
subject: Elders
description: Elders Sarah Kuptana and Elmira Soupay speak to family and friends and send greetings on the A Long Time Ago program.
creator: Kuptana, Sarah
creator: Soupay, Elmira
date: August 21, 1976
language: Iñupiatun
type: Audio

Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 1
subject: Storytelling
subject: Inuit Gathering
subject: Bitten
subject: Eggs
subject: Animals
subject: Drymeat
subject: Siblings
subject: Polar Bear Scare
subject: Relatives
subject: Whitemen
subject: Fishing
subject: Hunting
subject: Nomadic
subject: Eastern Arctic Inuit
subject: Feasting
subject: Dancing
subject: Abandonment
subject: Puivlirmiut (Inland People)
subject: God
subject: Jesus
subject: Food Cache
subject: Hunger
subject: Sharing
subject: Illness
subject: Deaths
subject: Marriage
description: 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.
creator: Kuptana, Sarah
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 2
subject: Storytelling
subject: Illness
subject: Hudson Bay Trading Post
subject: Employment
subject: Ration
subject: Ice Fishing
subject: Fishnet Fishing
subject: Trapping
subject: Visitors
subject: Christmas
subject: Animals
subject: Hunting
subject: Various Families
description: 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.
creator: Kuptana, Sarah
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 3
subject: Storytelling
subject: Fishnet Fishing
subject: Various Families
subject: Siblings
subject: Hudson Bay Trading Post
subject: Hunting
subject: Travels
subject: Shelters
subject: Drymeat
subject: Dryfish
subject: Traditional Fishing Methods
subject: Food Cache
subject: Stone Houses
subject: Food Abundance
subject: Staple Food
subject: Healthy
subject: Animals
description: 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.
creator: Kuptana, Sarah
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 4
subject: Storytelling
subject: Animals
subject: Death
subject: Dog Deaths
subject: Food
subject: Hudson Bay Trading Post
subject: Hunting
subject: Travels
subject: Fishing
subject: Sharing
subject: Whiteman Food
subject: Christmas
subject: Dancing
subject: Trapping
subject: Marriage
subject: Birth
subject: TB (tuberculosis)
subject: Paralyzed
subject: RC (Roman Catholic) Ship
subject: Noah Elias' Boat - Blue Fox
subject: Hospitalized
subject: God
subject: Jesus
subject: Prayer
subject: Camsell Hospital
subject: Suffering
subject: Faith
subject: Fear
subject: RCMP
description: 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.
creator: Kuptana, Sarah
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 5
subject: Storytelling
subject: Camsell Hospital
subject: Reunited
subject: Birth
subject: Travel
subject: Trapping
subject: Igloos
subject: Easter
subject: Hudson Bay Trading Post
subject: Starvation
subject: Hard Times
subject: Caribou
subject: Sharing
subject: Various Families
subject: Rich Visitors
subject: Cigarettes
subject: Christmas
description: 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.
creator: Kuptana, Sarah
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 6
subject: Storytelling
subject: Starvation
subject: Travels
subject: Hunting
subject: RCMP
subject: Employment
subject: DOT (Department of Transportation)
subject: Food Shortage
description: 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.
creator: Kuptana, Sarah
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Part 7
subject: Storytelling
subject: Starvation
subject: Hunting
subject: Employment
subject: DOT (Department of Transportation)
subject: Food Shortage
subject: Money
subject: Stove heater
subject: Sharing
subject: Trapping
subject: Various Families
subject: House
subject: Alcohol
subject: Government Housing
subject: Poor
subject: Rich
subject: Change
subject: School
subject: Children
subject: Lonely
subject: Airplanes
subject: Ice House
subject: Food Supply
subject: Skidoos
subject: Dogteam
subject: Transportation
subject: Westerners
subject: Whiteman
subject: Animals
subject: Games
subject: Hiking
subject: Flu Sickness
subject: Ptarmigans
subject: Fish Netting
description: 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.
creator: Kuptana, Sarah
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Sarah Kuptana’s Stories of her Younger Days, Final Part 8
subject: Storytelling
subject: Hunting
subject: Poor
subject: Inuinnaqtun
subject: Dogs
subject: Fun
subject: Learning
subject: Animals
subject: Residential School
subject: Plane
subject: Northern Games
subject: Travel
subject: Inupiat
subject: Inupiaq Lifestyle
subject: First Nations Church
subject: Sick
subject: Christmas
subject: Visiting
subject: Skidooing
subject: Ice Fishing
subject: Trapping
description: 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.
creator: Kuptana, Sarah
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

News with Edward Lennie then Old Time Stories by William Kuptana
subject: Storytelling
subject: Regional Trapping News
subject: Trappers Radios
subject: Hunting
subject: Trapping
subject: Fishing
subject: Dry Fish
subject: Hiking
subject: Caribou
subject: Clothing
subject: Hunting and Fishing Methods
subject: Muskox Hunting Methods
subject: Drymeat
subject: Dogs
subject: Traditional Sew needles and knives
subject: Traditional Hunting and Trapping Tools
subject: Traditional Bows
description: Host of A Native Voice Edward Lennie provides regional trapping news then airs William Kuptana’s Old Time Stories of how Inuvialuit lived long ago prior to Whiteman Arrival.
creator: Lennie, Edward
creator: Kuptana, William
date: September 21, 1971
language: Iñupiatun
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

News with Edward Lennie then William Kuptana tells Old Time Stories
subject: Storytelling
subject: Local and Regional News
subject: Hunting
subject: Clothing
subject: Snowhouse
subject: Old Timers
subject: Fishing
subject: Acquiring a Wife
description: Host of A Native Voice Edward Lennie provides local and regional news then airs a recording of William Kuptana who is telling old time stories of how Inuvialuit lived long ago.
creator: Lennie, Edward
creator: Kuptana, William
date: [197-?]
language: Iñupiatun
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

News with Edward Lennie then William Kuptana tells Old Time Stories
subject: Storytelling
subject: Local and Regional News
subject: Requesting Speakers
subject: Welcoming Program Feedback
subject: Waterfowl
subject: Caribou
subject: Hunting
subject: Food
description: Host of A Native Voice Edward Lennie provides local and regional news then William Kuptana is storytelling about searching for caribou during lean times. The story was already in progress.
creator: Lennie, Edward
creator: Kuptana, William
date: [October 26, 19??]
language: Iñupiatun
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

News with Edward Lennie then William Kuptana tells Old Time Stories
subject: Storytelling
subject: Local and Regional News
subject: Shamans
subject: Prior to Whiteman Arrival
subject: Old Timers
subject: Shaman Doctor
subject: Hunting
subject: Wildlife
subject: Way of Life
description: Host of A Native Voice Edward Lennie provides local and regional news then William Kuptana is storytelling a story that was already in progress and other short stories from his younger days.
creator: Lennie, Edward
creator: Kuptana, William
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

My Life as a Young Boy by William Kuptana
subject: Storytelling
subject: Hunting
subject: Fishing
subject: Hiking
subject: Traditional Lifestyle
subject: Hunting and Fishing Tools
subject: Clothing
subject: Shelters
subject: Heating
subject: Traditional Food
subject: Dogs
subject: Kayak boat
subject: Animal Uses
subject: Food Preservation
subject: Nomadic
description: William Kuptana is storytelling of when he started remembering when he was a young boy of how they lived long ago prior to Caucasians arriving, of when they lived a totally traditional lifestyle and describes their hunting and fishing methods prior to fishnets, their hunting and fishing tools that were made, the challenges and hardships of hunting caribou wtih bows and arrows prior to the modern guns, of homeade canoes, of the women’s and men’s roles in hunting caribou, of the traditional shelters and clothing made, of the uses of the animals for clothing, blankets, heat, shelter, and food for themselves and for the dogs, of the traditional food prepared and dried and also used when hiking, and ends with a story about a very good hunter named Kullaq.
creator: Kuptana, William
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Traditional Hunting Lifestyle and Tough Survival Stories by William Kuptana
subject: Storytelling
subject: Hunting
subject: Kullaq
subject: Dogs
subject: Hunting Methods
subject: Kangiryuarmiut
subject: Suffering Hardships
subject: Seal skin bag (thermos skin bottles)
subject: Traditional Food and Drinks
subject: Animal Uses
subject: Food Storage
subject: Food Preparation
subject: Qilliq (Lamp)
subject: Fire
subject: Heating
description: William Kuptana is storytelling about Kullaq, the very good polar bear hunter, of the first people, the Kangiryuarmiut, that started going to Ikaahuk (Sachs Harbour), Banksland, of the (Eastern Inuit) Qangmalit old timers who called it "Ikaahuk" (Sachs Harbour) prior to arrival of the Europeans who named it Banksland, of the how the hunters hunted muskoxen long ago with bows and arrows and spears, of making drymeat with it, of making a fire by rubbing flint rocks together to create a spark and using Innangniq/arctic cotton and cooking their meals over the fire, of the suffering from cold sometime if their was no seal oil for their qulliq (lamp) that he describes what is needed to light and use, of food shortage until they can get some, of food caches, seal oil storage, animal uses, or clothing shortage that he witnessed when he was growing up, of surviving during the tough way of life, of caribou hunting for clothing and making dry meat, and of the traditional food and drinks.
creator: Kuptana, William
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Family Members and Hunting Stories by William Kuptana Part 1
subject: Storytelling
subject: Family
subject: Relations
subject: Siblings
subject: Inuvialuktun Names
subject: Adopted
subject: Deaths
subject: Hunting
subject: Animals
subject: Hunting Weapons
subject: Survival
subject: Dogs
description: William Kuptana is storytelling about his parents and siblings, who only had Inuvialuit names since they all passed away prior to the arrival of Europeans, and mentions that David Roland having his father’s Inuvialuktun name, , of learning how to hunt from other hunters like his uncle, and shares caribou, polar bear, brown bear, and seal hunting stories, and hunting was with only homemade hunting tools prior to contact with Caucasian people. Part 1. To be continued.
creator: Kuptana, William
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Family Members and Hunting Stories by William Kuptana Final Part 2
subject: Storytelling
subject: Relations
subject: Hunting
subject: Animals
subject: Dogs
subject: Traditional Hunting Methods
subject: Traditional Hunting Tools
subject: Weapons
description: William Kuptana is continuing the hunting stories with the polar bear and seal hunting with traditional hunting methods and homemade hunting tools and weapons, prior to Whiteman contact. Note: Story stops abruptly.
creator: Kuptana, William
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

Old Timer’s Stories of Killings and Murders by William Kuptana
subject: Storytelling
subject: Murders
subject: Fighting
subject: Kangiryuarmiut
subject: Shamanism
subject: Brothers
subject: Bows and Arrows
subject: Stabbings
subject: Lifestyle
subject: Weapons
subject: Hunting
subject: Animals
subject: Food
subject: Puiblirmiut tribe
subject: Kangiryuarmiut tribe
subject: Insanity
subject: Hex
subject: Relatives
description: William Kuptana is telling stories that he heard from his grandfather and his parents as well as telling stories of what he also witnessed when he was young. Stories of dangerous men killing each other when warring and fighting over women, of physical fitness and strength being very important in winning in battles of one or more opponents, of people killing each other and wasting time warring with each other rather than using that time for hunting, when warring with handcarved bows and arrow and knives prior to contact with White people. William also talks of how their arrow weapons were made, and of how people used shamans long ago.
creator: Kuptana, William
date: [197-?]
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio

N-1992-007-0177-0178-0179-0180-0181-0182-0183
description: The first part is Joe Nasogaluak talking about Stefansson's expedition in 1909-1910 among the Inuinnait. The beginning is missing. There is also an English translation by Father Le Meur. Later Joe Nasogaluak tells a story about a woman and her baby who were turned into stone.
creator: Nasogaluak, Joe
creator: Le Meur, Father Robert
type: Audio

Father Le Meur Interviews Bertram Pokiak about the ITC Conference
subject: Inuit Tapirisat Canada Conference
subject: Inuit Issues
description: Father Le Meur interviews Bertram Pokiak in English and Inuvialuktun on CFCT in Tuktoyaktuk, N.T. about the Inuit Tapirsat Canada conference that Bertram attended in Pangirtung, Nunavut
creator: Pokiak, Bertram
creator: Le Meur, Father Robert
date: [197-?]
language: English
language: Inuvialuktun
type: Audio