Persis Gruben telling her Life Stories, Part 10

Collection

Citation

Gruben,Persis, “Persis Gruben telling her Life Stories, Part 10,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed April 29, 2025, http://slisdlibdev.srv.ualberta.ca/items/show/1355.

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Title

Persis Gruben telling her Life Stories, Part 10

People

Gruben,Persis

Date

November 1976

Description

Persis Gruben is storytelling about when she lived a nomadic lifestyle with her parents then later moving to Tuktoyaktuk, of travelling with dogteams and use of dogs. Persis also shares stories of when they first got skidoos, of hunting and trapping stories with her husband and their friend John Kikoak, of some Inuvialuit families living at Dewline, of traditional clothing, of traditional food, and of their travels at Christmas time. She also speaks about the problems she sees due to everyone living in one community, about her frustrations with kids lacking work ethics and life skills today. She then shares her ideas on how things could have been done differently that would have helped with kid’s learning and with how to live, when first building houses in Tuktoyaktuk, and closes with the following: Our land is no more good. It's destroyed or wrecked. Part 10. To be continued.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0303

Dialect

Sallirmiutun