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Morris Nigiyok is telling stories of his younger days of his many travels, his hunting and trapping trips, the various families, his marriage, Christmas and Easter celebrations, ministerial visits, the fun times and the not so fun times, and more.

Morris Nigiyok is storytelling of his younger days when there were hardly any people living at Ulukhaktok, their travels, fun times, hunting trips, and more. Part 1, to be continued.

Morris Nigiyok is continuing part 2 his storytelling of his younger days of his travels, hunting trips, dogteam races, and more.

Morris Nigiyok continues his storytelling of his younger days of hunting polar bears with his hunting companions.

Morris Nigiyok is storytelling of his younger days of hunting polar bears with his hunting companions. To be continued.

Morris Nigiyok is telling stories of his younger days of polar bear and seal hunting with his dog team.

A photo of Elder Morris Nigiyok.

A photo of Elder Morris Nigiyok.

A photo of Elder Morris Nigiyok looking to his left.

A photo of Elder Morris Nigiyok.

A photo of Elder Morris Nigiyok looking to his left.

A photo of Morris Nigiyok dressed in traditional clothes.

A photo of Elder Morris Nigiyok sitting in an armchair.

A photo of Elders Morris and Mabel Nigiyok sitting on a couch.

A photo of Elders Morris and Mabel Nigiyok sitting on a couch.

A photo of a winter morning in Inuvik.

Mary Kailek continues sharing from her summer journals of her faith, of she and her family’s lifestyle and activities, of their travels, of hunting, fishing, snaring, of a missing person search, of the traditional clothing that she’d sew and her…

Mary Kailek shares her journal of July to August activities of her travels, hunts, the search for Archie, and pf her lifestyle with her family out on the land, of her frustrations with lifestyle changes regarding money, and speaks of her prayers and…

Mary Kailek is sharing more her journals of she and her family’s activities from 1979, and October 1980 onward, of activities such as living out on the land, fishing, trapping, snaring, their travels, and births, of sewing her fancy parkas, of her…

Joe Nasogaluak is storytelling a story that was already in progress about Caucasion bowhead whale hunters and more Caucasion people arriving, and about the many ways that Inuvialuit ways of life have changed since then.

The image shows another muskox herb by the same lake, near Firth River.

Frank Kuptana is storytelling of his younger days, of when people were arriving to Aggie Bolt’s land to purchase supplies from the store, of the Sunday services and games, of when they were unloading the trading supply ship that arrived, of…

Frank Kuptana is sharing more memories of his lifestyle after getting married, of when he and his wife’s travels and living on the the land, hunting, trapping, fishing, getting ice and wood, and tells stories of living the traditional life,…

Agnes Nanogak is telling a legend of a man hunting seal with noisy children, one of whom was left behind by his brothers and became a very badly treated orphan, of a short legend of two snow birds, and the legend of the man with one eye who was out…