Lifestyle Prior to European Contact by Buster Kailek

Collection

Citation

Kailek, Buster, “Lifestyle Prior to European Contact by Buster Kailek,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed April 26, 2025, https://457921.kqmm.asia/items/show/1489.

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Title

Lifestyle Prior to European Contact by Buster Kailek

People

Kailek, Buster

Date

[197-?]

Description

Buster Kailek is storytelling about how Inuvialuit lived prior to European contact, about how they made fire long ago, about fishing, about caribou hunting methods prior to modern guns with his uncle and others, about all the many uses of caribou for clothing, food including storing annual food supplies, about living a nomadic lifestyle and following the seasons and travelling to seasonal camps for hunting various animals at different times of the year, and about fights over women that at times led to killing. Buster also speaks of the importance of teaching the young boys about hunting and about traditional knowledge which is being forgotten due to the young now adopting and living a Caucasian lifestyle.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0416

Dialect

Sallirmiutun