Archive Project

Our elders are working with the Niutuq Cultural Centre in Igloolik to collect legends and wildlife information on audio tape, which then will be stored on CD-ROM. Photos are being digitally entered into computers as well. It's an important step toward sharing and safeguarding the wisdom of past generations.

One day it was so windy. Like a young person I would see the whole world. Like a male they use to know where they are it remind me of that. The heads connecting to each other and friends holding together, to help each other. That means we work together by our heads.

We use to wear all handmade clothing, we were happy wearing our mothers handmade clothing. We talk to each other being cold and we try to warm ourselves. Playing outside with friends that was fun. When we are not hungry with our best friend and the people we are agree with we can share everything in personality even though when we are anywhere, and that's our life.

This is the one I like. Long time ago me and my sister we use to jiggling and trying to beat each other by jiggling we talked and jiggle like this. Quluppajuusi.

In winter we use to have Igloo with our family, we help each other all the time, and we use to live where there is a water even in the winter there is a water that never frozen in the north. There's always water available in the winter. That is where my father use to live. Even though there is no pond around, my sister and I were happy because we are warm and not hungry. We use to live eating seal, fish, caribou, polar bear, ptarmigan, rabbit and the dogs were eating too and Inuit use the fur for clothing but they were hunted by our father and the furs were always made by women. Our grandfather and our father helped us a lot now we live until today.

And we travelled by dogteam.