Old Time Stories by Mary Kailek

Collection

Citation

Kailek, Mary, “Old Time Stories by Mary Kailek,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed April 5, 2026, http://slisdlibdev.srv.ualberta.ca/items/show/1460.

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Title

Old Time Stories by Mary Kailek

People

Kailek, Mary

Date

[197-?]

Description

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.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0395

Dialect

Sallirmiutun