Family Members and Hunting Stories by William Kuptana Part 1

Collection

Citation

Kuptana, William, “Family Members and Hunting Stories by William Kuptana Part 1,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed April 29, 2025, http://slisdlibdev.srv.ualberta.ca/items/show/1428.

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Title

Family Members and Hunting Stories by William Kuptana Part 1

People

Kuptana, William

Date

[197-?]

Description

William Kuptana is storytelling about his parents and siblings, who only had Inuvialuit names since they all passed away prior to the arrival of Europeans, and mentions that David Roland having his father’s Inuvialuktun name, , of learning how to hunt from other hunters like his uncle, and shares caribou, polar bear, brown bear, and seal hunting stories, and hunting was with only homemade hunting tools prior to contact with Caucasian people. Part 1. To be continued.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0368

Dialect

Sallirmiutun