A photo of the schooner Blue Fox at Canalaska post at Walker Bay, Northwest Territories. The schooner was unable to reach mainland after spending winter 1932-33 on Banks Island, and the party left furs and note in exchange for supplies.
Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about when boats were iced in, when bowhead whaling season was done, of their travels, of trapping and hunting, then continuing their sailing journey after the winter, and making their way to the trading posts to…