Stories and Legends Part 2 by Mary Kailek
Storytelling
Legends
Death
Relations
First Nations
Inuvialuit
Trapping
Animals
Lifestyle
Traditional Food
Hunting
Gathering
Shamanism
Mary Kailek is continuing (repeating initial part of the story) a legend from the previous story where the daughter refuses to marry a man, then tells a short personal story of an unusual sighting from her younger days, followed by a First Nations legend that she heard from Joe Gully, as well as a legend that she heard from her friend while at the Campsell Hospital. Mary then shares a personal story of her friend, and tells another legend of a man who wakes up with nothing along the coast, survives, and sets out on a mission. Part 2. To be continued.
Kailek, Mary
Inuvialuktun
Stories and Legends Part 3 by Mary Kailek
Mary Kailek is telling more legends including of a man who could turn himself into other things to achieve his goals, of people living along the ocean shore, and more. Part 3. To be continued.
Stories and Legends Part 4 by Mary Kailek
Friend
Wives
Children
Travels
Family
Muskrats
Mary Kailek is completing the legend from the previous legend, then tells a personal short story from when she was at Campsell Hospital, and ends with a legend that she heard from her friend Melanie from Taloyoak (Spence Bay) about a man who had five wives. The 12:25 minute mark changes to a personal story of when they were out muskrat hunting and traveling out on the land, then he story ends abruptly.
Fishing
Roddy (sp) Peter’s translates Andrew Kunnizzi’s story in English about the stories he was telling two ladies.
Kunnizzi, Andrew
Peters, Roddy (sp)
English
Stories from 1930 to 1939 by Mary Kailek
1930
Eastern Inuit
Various People
Jacobsons
Dad
1939
Employment
Police
Hudson Bay Store
Language
Mary Kailek is storytelling of the fall of 1930 when she went to Utqaluk (Baillie Island) and of some who went to Pierce Point where there were many Eastern Inuit living there at that time, of stories she heard of Eastern Inuit and shamanism, and of when they went to Iqaluktuuttiaq in 1939 when her dad was working for the police and helping them.
Move
Snaring
Dogs
Christmas
Struggles
Mountain People
Work Ethics
Elder Amos Tumma is telling old time stories of his younger days of hunting and travelling, and of his wife’s grandfather’s stories from long ago of how they lived, working hard, hardly sleeping, hunting for their food prior to arrival of Europeans, etc.
Tumma, Amos
Iñupiatun
Stories Journals and Memories by Mary Kailek
Clothing
Lifestyle Changes
Medicals
Wood
Wildlife
Visitors
Memories
Stories start with a repeated story from previous old time story that was already in progress that Mary Kailek heard from Itualuk. Mary also speaks about lifestyle changes from their very traditinoal active and busy lifestyle to a life of ease and less activity. She also shares her journal of she and her family members activities: of hunting, trapping, snaring, fishing, medicals, travels, getting wood, wildlife harvests, and visitors. The story then suddenly changes at the 31:12 minute mark to when she was a young woman with two children and shares memories around Christmas time then the story ends abruptly.
Parents
Hudson Bay Trading Ship
Frozen
Ice
Kayak
Boat
Bears
Survival
Seals
Trading Post
Various Families
Black Coal
Canalaska Trading Post
Agnes Nanogak is storytelling of some of she and her family’s many travels, of living in various places, and of of some of their experiences such as when her father fell in water and nearly froze to death, of when he made his own kayak boat with wood and sealskins, of being a good provider and hunter, of when he purchased a boat from the Hudson Bay Company supply ship, and more.
Nanogak, Agnes
Inuinnaqtun
Schooners
Oral History
Trading
Shamans
Traditional Teachings
Qummana is telling a story about Fred Carpenter during the 1921/22 era.
Qummana
Street Photo of Colourful Civil Servants’ Houses
Digital images
Stilt houses
Men
A photo of colourfully painted civil servants’ houses and trees. In the background, a young boy is playing and a man is walking.
Hunt, David E., 1925-
Portrait photographs
Fur
Hides & skins
Tents
Sydney, Susie
Keevik, Pat
Sydney, Peter
A photo of fox pelts being stretched at Sachs Harbour. Left to right: Susie Sydney, Pat Keevik, Peter Sydney.
This photo collection was used during the interviews of the Aulavik Oral History Project to get the names of people previously not identified. The complete collection was originally obtained from Mrs Susie Sydney (formerly Mrs Susie Wolki) by Peter J. Usher (Northern Science Research Group, Indian Affairs and Northern Development) in 1968 to be held at Library and Archives Canada (then called Public Archives of Canada).
Physical collection housed at Library and Archives Canada.
Beluga Whale
July
Fishnet Fishing
Dry Fish
Birthdays
Bear
August
Chores
Ice House
Picnic
School
September
Church Services
Illness
Marriage
October
Medical
Traditional Clothing
Camsell Hospital
Rabbits
Ice Conditions
Mary Kailek is sharing her memories of she and her family’s activities during the summer and fall of their travels and living out on the land. Mary also mentions the visitors arriving to their camp, of passers by, of various chores, of sewing traditional clothing, of people that have passed on, and of some birthdays. She also speaks of her frustrations with the lifestyle changes of young people while living in a community, of Joey and Trudy getting married, and more.
Clothing and dress
The image shows a summer camp made up of tents and a few wood structures in the delta. In the photo we can see a child being loved up by a couple of dogs and a women in the background smiling. Credit: Martha Harry
Inglangasuk, Lennie
Summer
Buildings
An aerial photo of Colville Lake in the summer.
Grandchildren
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Dogfeed
Ptarmigans
Food Preparation
Northern Games
Dancing
Traditional Knowledge Teaching
Game Warden
Picnics
Seal
Mary Kailek is sharing memories of she and her family’s travels, of various visitors, of beluga whale hunting, of fishnet fishing, of traditional food preparation, of making dryfish and also teaching the grandchildren who wanted to learn how to make dryfish, as well as teaching the young about fishnet fishing, of the Northern games and dancing in Inuvik, of gathering wood, of picnicing, of the different busy lifestyle out on the land compared to the life of ease now a days, of her husband Buster getting sick, and more. To be continued.
Summer Memoirs by Mary Kailek Final Part 2
Camping
Mary Kailek is completing her story from the previous stories of her summer memoirs. Final Part 2.
Aerial photographs
The photo shows an old post card from Kugluktuk, it shows the summer view of Kugluktuk from the air.
Sunset
Trees
Winter
A photo of a sunset through willows with trees in the background.
Storms
Thunderstorms
The photo shows a Sunset & Thunderstorm on the Steward River.
Supernatural Powers, Woman with a Tail Legend by Bob Kanayok
Legend
Supernatural Powers
Inuit
Elder Bob Kanayok is telling a legend of a woman with a tail and some Inuit had supernatural powers.
Kanayok, Bob
Alunik, Ishmael
Apian, Joe
Anaumiq, Amos
Memorana, Jimmy
Inuktaluk, Roy
Kuptana, Frank
Haogaq, Phillip
Igutuk, Harry
Aquaqhiun, Andy
A photo of Joe Apian, Amos Anaumiq, Jimmy Memorana, Roy Inuktalik, Frank Kuptan, Philip Haogaq, Harry Igutuk, and Andy Aquaqiun with tents and buildings behind them.
A photo of the schooner Blue Fox surround by ice in the springtime.
Fur Sale
Challenging Times
A Long Time Ago host Louie Goose airs Father Le Meur who interviewed Elders Bessie Wolki and Ivy Raddi, then Paul Adam about how they survived very trying times on Banks Island. Father Le Meur then translates their stories into English.
Wolki, Bessie
Raddi, Ivy
Adam, Paul
Le Meur, Father Robert
Surviving Very Hard Times by Agnes Nigiyok
Starving
Mistreated
Step Parents
Sikoaluk's
Whitemen
Relgion
Poor
Uummarmiut
Lennies
Agnes Nigiyok is telling a story of when she was a young girl of the many years of hardships she endured when she lived with her step parents, the Sikoaluks . She recalls how they let her suffer in need of clothes and left her hungry most of the time she was with them. She speaks of staying with the Lennie family who treated her like their own child, and staying with various families while growing up, then getting married where she felt she was treated really well and finally got a good home, and more.
Nigiyok, Agnes