My Life as a Young Boy by William Kuptana

Collection

Citation

Kuptana, William, “My Life as a Young Boy by William Kuptana,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed April 5, 2026, http://slisdlibdev.srv.ualberta.ca/items/show/1426.

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Title

My Life as a Young Boy by William Kuptana

People

Kuptana, William

Date

[197-?]

Description

William Kuptana is storytelling of when he started remembering when he was a young boy of how they lived long ago prior to Caucasians arriving, of when they lived a totally traditional lifestyle and describes their hunting and fishing methods prior to fishnets, their hunting and fishing tools that were made, the challenges and hardships of hunting caribou wtih bows and arrows prior to the modern guns, of homeade canoes, of the women’s and men’s roles in hunting caribou, of the traditional shelters and clothing made, of the uses of the animals for clothing, blankets, heat, shelter, and food for themselves and for the dogs, of the traditional food prepared and dried and also used when hiking, and ends with a story about a very good hunter named Kullaq.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0366

Dialect

Sallirmiutun