A Man Named Akak by Agnes Nigiyok Part 2 and Personal Life Stories

Collection

Citation

Nigiyok, Agnes, “A Man Named Akak by Agnes Nigiyok Part 2 and Personal Life Stories,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed April 29, 2025, http://slisdlibdev.srv.ualberta.ca/items/show/1336.

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Title

A Man Named Akak by Agnes Nigiyok Part 2 and Personal Life Stories

Audience

Contains sensitive material.

People

Nigiyok, Agnes

Date

July 9, 1976

Description

Agnes Nigiyok is continuing the story about the man named Akak who was killed then an RCMP investigation ensued a year later when the families involved were arrested and taken away and returned a year later. Agnes also tells about one man’s wife who eventually returned from the West, about reluctantly having to live with the Sikoaluk’s again, then getting married and having a daughter, and sometimes witnessing men taking away other people’s wives and take them away, and of tough days, and more.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0284

Dialect

Sallirmiutun