Early Memories with Frank Kuptana

Collection

Citation

Kuptana, Frank, “Early Memories with Frank Kuptana,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed February 4, 2025, https://inuvialuitdigitallibrary.ca/items/show/1446.

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Title

Early Memories with Frank Kuptana

Audience

Contains sensitive material.

People

Kuptana, Frank

Date

[197-?]

Description

Frank Kuptana is storytelling about his earliest memories of traveling alone with his mother who was packing him, of hard times and good times, of his mom remarrying, of the gatherings, games, visiting, and dances, of their homes built, of hunting, of the many people, traditional hunting methods, of his mom calling caribou during caribou hunts, of feeling like an orphan, people trapping for foxes with dog teams prior to skidoos, of returning to his birth place, then trapping with Agnavigak, Christmas gatherings, fishing, and more.