Persis Gruben telling her Life Stories, Part 9

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Citation

Gruben, Persis, “Persis Gruben telling her Life Stories, Part 9,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed May 24, 2025, https://inuvialuitdigitallibrary.ca/items/show/1354.

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Title

Persis Gruben telling her Life Stories, Part 9

People

Gruben, Persis

Date

November 1976

Description

Persis Gruben is stortyelling about orphans, of various people and or families at various locations they lived at including the different homes they lived in. She also spoke of water and heating oil not being delivered to them but rather they would have to get ice water and then get wood for heat, of when there were only a few people living at Tuktoyaktuk, of when her mom told her that she’s not returning to residential school, of when they mistook Siilivik for dead but the joy of discovering he was still alive, of old store keepers and trappers who returned South, and of when her mother passed away, and packing everything up and traveling, and more. Part 9. To be continued.