Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 35 and Final Part 36

Collection

Citation

Cockney, Frank Uvvayuaq, “Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 35 and Final Part 36,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed April 25, 2024, https://inuvialuitdigitallibrary.ca/items/show/1425.

Facebook Twitter Email

Title

Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 35 and Final Part 36

People

Cockney, Frank Uvvayuaq

Date

1977

Description

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.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0365

Dialect

Sallirmiutun