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A photo of Susan Clayton painting a wall hanging at the Alaska Indian Arts.

A photo of Susan Aglukark performing with a band at the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Inuvik.

Agnes Nigiyok is telling a story of when she was a young girl of the many years of hardships she endured when she lived with her step parents, the Sikoaluks . She recalls how they let her suffer in need of clothes and left her hungry most of the…

A Long Time Ago host Louie Goose airs Father Le Meur who interviewed Elders Bessie Wolki and Ivy Raddi, then Paul Adam about how they survived very trying times on Banks Island. Father Le Meur then translates their stories into English.

A photo of the schooner Blue Fox surround by ice in the springtime.

A photo of Joe Apian, Amos Anaumiq, Jimmy Memorana, Roy Inuktalik, Frank Kuptan, Philip Haogaq, Harry Igutuk, and Andy Aquaqiun with tents and buildings behind them.

Elder Bob Kanayok is telling a legend of a woman with a tail and some Inuit had supernatural powers.

The photo shows a Sunset & Thunderstorm on the Steward River.

A photo of a sunset through willows with trees in the background.

The photo shows an old post card from Kugluktuk, it shows the summer view of Kugluktuk from the air.

Mary Kailek is completing her story from the previous stories of her summer memoirs. Final Part 2.

Mary Kailek is sharing memories of she and her family’s travels, of various visitors, of beluga whale hunting, of fishnet fishing, of traditional food preparation, of making dryfish and also teaching the grandchildren who wanted to learn how to…

An aerial photo of Colville Lake in the summer.

The image shows a summer camp made up of tents and a few wood structures in the delta. In the photo we can see a child being loved up by a couple of dogs and a women in the background smiling. Credit: Martha Harry

Mary Kailek is sharing her memories of she and her family’s activities during the summer and fall of their travels and living out on the land. Mary also mentions the visitors arriving to their camp, of passers by, of various chores, of sewing…

A photo of fox pelts being stretched at Sachs Harbour. Left to right: Susie Sydney, Pat Keevik, Peter Sydney.

A photo of colourfully painted civil servants’ houses and trees. In the background, a young boy is playing and a man is walking.

Qummana is telling a story about Fred Carpenter during the 1921/22 era.

Agnes Nanogak is storytelling of some of she and her family’s many travels, of living in various places, and of of some of their experiences such as when her father fell in water and nearly froze to death, of when he made his own kayak boat with…

Stories start with a repeated story from previous old time story that was already in progress that Mary Kailek heard from Itualuk. Mary also speaks about lifestyle changes from their very traditinoal active and busy lifestyle to a life of ease and…

Elder Amos Tumma is telling old time stories of his younger days of hunting and travelling, and of his wife’s grandfather’s stories from long ago of how they lived, working hard, hardly sleeping, hunting for their food prior to arrival of…

Mary Kailek is storytelling of the fall of 1930 when she went to Utqaluk (Baillie Island) and of some who went to Pierce Point where there were many Eastern Inuit living there at that time, of stories she heard of Eastern Inuit and shamanism, and of…

Roddy (sp) Peter’s translates Andrew Kunnizzi’s story in English about the stories he was telling two ladies.

Mary Kailek is completing the legend from the previous legend, then tells a personal short story from when she was at Campsell Hospital, and ends with a legend that she heard from her friend Melanie from Taloyoak (Spence Bay) about a man who had five…