Donald Kaglik's Life Stories Part 13 and Legends
Storytelling
Legends
Travels
Visiting
Shamans
Hunter
Moon
Donald Kaglik is continuing to share stories of his memories of his younger days of his travels such as when he and his sister Mary went to Aklavik but when returning to their camp there was lots of overflow and it was hard going so they camped at Joe Inglangasuk’s on their way home where Ningaqsiq Bennet and Old Charlie Korogak were and they spent an evening of storytelling. Donald shares the legend that Ningaqsiq told them of the legend of the man from the moon. Donald then tells another legend of the girl who married a shaman that he told his visitor after arriving back to his camp. Part 13. To be continued.
Kaglik, Donald Ir̂ituagayuk Sakiitualuq Kuvlualuk
Inuvialuktun
English
Donald Kaglik's Life Stories Part 14 and Legends
Family
Friends
Wolves
First Nations
Hunting
Missing
Search
Test
Employment
Dogs
Payment
Semmler
Painting
Pool Construction
Tent Frames
Ruler
Cannibalism
Kidnapped
Shaman Powers
Wolverine
Donald Kaglik continues and completes the legend that he was telling his visitor Hebert Allen, of the girl who married a shaman. Donald then tells another legend that he told to his friends and family while sitting around the campfire at another time of the legend that his late dad had told them, who heard the legend from Ningaqsiq, when they used to go to Airport Creek after ratting season and when many people stayed in tents. Donald also tells a legend that his grandmother told him at his grandfather Ningasiq’s place when they went there for Christmas. Final Part 14.
Life Stories by Elder Buster Kailek, Part 1.
Hunting and Gathering
Fishing
Food Preservation
Travel
Food Preparation
Seasonal Camps
Boat Making
Dances
Fire
Snow House
Sharing
Games
Wildlife
Elder Buster Kailek is sharing about how they lived long ago out on the land which he says is very different from his present day living.
Kailek, Buster
Life Stories by Elder Buster Kailek, Part 2.
Lost Man
White Guardians
Relatives
Trapping
Store
Police
Arranged Marriage
Big Sickness
Death
Elder Buster Kailek continues sharing part 2 of his life stories from his younger days.
Life Stories by Elder Buster Kailek, Part 3.
Dog feed
Traditional Foods
Various Families
Elder Buster Kailek is storytelling about his younger days of his travels, hunting, and trapping
Life Stories by Elder Buster Kailek, Part 4.
House Construction
Reindeer Herding
Elder Buster Kailek is storytelling about his younger days of his travels, hunting, trapping, and reindeer herding.
Life Stories by Elder Buster Kailek, Part 5.
Dog Feed
Elder Buster Kailek continues his storytelling about his younger days of when he and others were reindeer herding, of his travels, fishing, and hunting muskrats.
Lifestyle Prior to European Contact by Buster Kailek
Lifestyle
Caribou
Bow and Arrows
Hiking
Nomadic
Seals
Waterfowl
Women
Murder
Traditional Knowledge
Young Boys
Buster Kailek is storytelling about how Inuvialuit lived prior to European contact, about how they made fire long ago, about fishing, about caribou hunting methods prior to modern guns with his uncle and others, about all the many uses of caribou for clothing, food including storing annual food supplies, about living a nomadic lifestyle and following the seasons and travelling to seasonal camps for hunting various animals at different times of the year, and about fights over women that at times led to killing. Buster also speaks of the importance of teaching the young boys about hunting and about traditional knowledge which is being forgotten due to the young now adopting and living a Caucasian lifestyle.
Travels and Life Stories by Buster Kailek
Hudson Bay
Schooners
Staples
Semmlers
Snowhouse
Polar Bear
Traditional Food
Storekeeper
Homes
Various People
Dryfish
Drymeat
Foxes
1.5 Horse Kicker
Ptarmigans
Rabbits
Cached Food
Buster Kailek is storytelling about their travels including traveling to Tuktoyaktuk getting supplies at the Hudson Bay, and the many schooners that were there, of their traveling challenges, of a child’s death, of hunting and trapping, of their harvests, of building a house for Semmler, of making drymeat and dryfish, of wolves, of various people, of the seemingly fast 1.5 horsepower kicker when they first came out, of the good busy lifestyle long ago, and more.
Animals
Relations
Marriage
Minister
Buster Kailek is telling old time stories of when he was a young man, of how people lived long ago, hunting, fishing, trapping, living off the land and sea, making and preserving traditional food harvested, and of their nomadic lifestyle, of their travels to their seasonal camps, of his arranged marriage initiated by the police and minister, and more.
Uncle
Learning
Buster Kailek is storytelling of when he was young man of when his uncle was teaching him how to hunt seal, of trapping, and of other hunting stories.
Hunting and Travelling Stories by Buster Kailek Part 1
Alcohol
Visitors
Scows
Game Wardens
Semmler’s Store
Buster Kailek is telling hunting and traveling stories from 1968, including some comical stories, of hunting and traditional knowledge teachings, and more. Part 1. To be continued.
Hunting and Traveling Stories by Buster Kailek Final Part 2
Radio
Buster Kailek is completing the hunting and traveling stories from the previous story, to include listening to radio, and more. The story ends abruptly.
Life Stories
Memories
Mary Kailek is telling personal life stories.
Kailek, Mary
Buster Kailek’s Memories of Lifestyle Long Ago Part 1
Oral History
Elder Buster Kailek is sharing memories of long ago and of how they lived long ago out on the land. Part 1. To be continued.
Buster Kailek’s Memories of Lifestyle Long Ago Part 2
Semmler’s
Reindeer Herders
Elder Buster Kailek is sharing more memories of long ago and of how they lived long ago out on the land. Part 2. To be continued.
Buster Kailek’s Memories of Lifestyle Long Ago Part 3
Government
Caucasian
Inuvialuit
Land
Changes
Flu Epidemic
Elder Buster Kailek is sharing more memories of long ago and of how they lived, of reindeer herding, of lifestyle changes, as well as of when Inuvik was just starting up, and more. Part 3. To be continued.
Buster Kailek’s Memories of Lifestyle Long Ago Final Part 4
Elder Buster Kailek is completing his stories of his memories of long ago and of how they lived. Final, part 4.
Whaling
Whales
Various Visitors
Illness
Bible Studies
Church Services
Doctor
Wood
Children
Grandchildren
Deaths
Marriages
Sewing
Funeral
Fancy Parkas
Picture Shows
1979
1980
Snares
Ice Fishing
Skidoo
Muskrats
Water Fowl
Beaver
Births
Mary Kailek is sharing her journals of she and her family’s activities from summer of 1979 to 1980, of activities such as living out on the land, hunting, fishing, trapping, snaring, of their visitors, of their travels, of deaths, and births, of sewing her fancy parkas, of her husband making a boat, and much more.
More of Mary Kailek’s Journals from 1979 and 1980
Prayers
Fishnet Fishing
Memorial
Birthdays
Mink
Frozen
Faith
Campsell Hospital
CBC Messages
Beluga Jamboree
Mary Kailek is sharing more her journals of she and her family’s activities from 1979, and October 1980 onward, of activities such as living out on the land, fishing, trapping, snaring, their travels, and births, of sewing her fancy parkas, of her husband making a boat, of church services in Inuvik, of various visitors, of getting wood, of getting cold and sick then just her husband going out on the land, and more.
Memories of Her Younger Days by Mary Kailek
Schooner
Trade
Piffi
Calico
Fish
Skiff
Moose
Christmas
Qulliq (Traditional Lamp)
1936
Traditional Clothing
Injuries
House
Childbirth
Ptarmigan
North Star
Mary Kailek is storytelling about her life stories from her younger days, of her father, of her grandfather, of some comical stories, of trading piffi (dryfish) for staples with the police who arrived by boat, of various visitors, of learning how to sew, of sewing for her father and the police, of going to the Christmas gathering, of when she got married, of childbirth, of when her father passed away, of her travels, and more.
Beluga Whale
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Dogfeed
Bears
Northern Games
Dancing
July
Traditional Knowledge Teaching
Game Warden
Picnics
Bear
August
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.
Polar Bears
Wildlife Officers
Regulations
Clothing
Ships
Transportation
Egg Gathering
Gatherings
Mary Kailek is storytelling of her many travels, of various people, of the types of animals harvested, of her concerns of the new wildlife officer’s regulations and governance during that era, clothing and other items made from animal skins, of faster modern transportation replacing dog teams, of people hunting, of gathering eggs, of the lifestyle changes, of people changing, of when many people would gather together and tell stories and have drum dances, and of people camping in tents, of her mother’s passing, and shares her fond memories and much more. Note: The same audio is repeated around the half way mark.
Birth
Illnesses
Siblings
Injury
Walks
Grave Sites
Canalaska House
Catholic Father
Anglican Minister
Church Service
Nunamiut
Language
Mary Kailek is sharing more memories of her younger days of when she gave birth to her son, of her siblings who were on their way to residential school when her younger brother Donald Kaglik got hurt, of when her dad started trapping after he was finished working for the police, of a missing person search, of sewing and filling a mitts order for the police, of her hiking and seeing old grave sites, of a family that died of starvation, of various families, of gatherings and games, of people smoking pipes during the church service, of some comical stories, of when the old timers were buying drygoods for the first time, and more old time stories.