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Frank Cockney is storytelling of when his grandfather was preparing him to become more independent so he doesn’t suffer when he’s no longer around, of Christmas and New Year’s gatherings, of the Reindeer Herders joining themf or Christmas, of…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of when his grandmother, his father in law, then mother in law passed away, of his grandfather's independence, of he and his wife’s and many other’s registered traplines, of living a worry free healthy traditional…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of when his late famoun grandfather who had many friends and who was not well but stlll very fit and wanted to go mining, so he, his grandfather, Tom Elanik, Harry, Abe Auktalik Okpik, Owen , his grandfather, left…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of when he lived in the Delta, of people, the weather, the government all being different from when he was young, prior to many people living on one place, of his home near Aklavik, of travelling with dogsleds prior to…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of his trapping stories, of his travels with his family, of going to the store with his dogsled and purchasing dry goods, of caring for their dogs and dog teams, of his 10 to 12 year old son hunting small game, of…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of his travels including to Aklavik where alcohol purchases were just opened to Indigenous people after initially only Caucasians were allowed to purchase alcohol from the Liquor store, of hauling stuff for Fred…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of his experiences of when he flew to Edmonton on a D-C3 Plane for heavy equipment training in Leduc joining thirty five other Indigenous people from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, including his medical and…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of his traditional knowledge of the weather, of his travels, of his employment and wages, of staying in Tuktoyaktuk, of purchasing a new boat and kicker and following his wife’s instructions, helped other’s hunt…

Frank Cockney, aged 54 at the time of his storytelling is sharing his life stories for the future generations to hear and understand, of returning to the Dewline, of their homes, of his sons and daughters, of passing on his traditional knowledge to…

Frank Cockney is storytelling for future generations to hear. Frank is telling stories about when he started running his business, of the trials and errors of learning how to run a business, of trapping with Eddy, of his previous Heavy Equipment…

Frank Cockney is storytelling for the next generations to hear, and says this generation is different, of when he went to Tuktoyaktuk, of learning about the animals and fish and the traditional lifestyle from his grandparents, of when he was younger,…

Frank Cockney is storytelling about when he and others worked at the base camp and at Rig 3 for the oil company, of when he and his son and others got hired to help build a road which became an annual job and when he also worked as a camp attendant…

Frank Cockney is continuing his stories of the shift work that he was doing as a camp attendant at the oil company in Tuktoyaktuk, of when he and Saumik would walk to work since they lived in Tuk, until he bought a skidoo then he’d drive to work,…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of when they first went to Tuktoyaktuk, mentioning all the families that he recalls who had homes there and some of the families that moved on including the then Anglican minister Jim Edwards Sr., Frank says the houses…

Frank Cockney is storytelling of when he was working for the oil company in Tuktoyaktuk, of his holidays, and of when he’d work on first winter road construction in 1967, of working with Caucasion people, of when he began working for the land…

A recorded segment in Gwich'in. Includes old country music songs in English.

CHAK news interview with Captain Phil Coot about the ship the "Beaufort Explorer" and her maiden voyage down the Mackenzie River. There are other news items about Jean Chretien in English.

A COPE meeting was already in progress where discussions started with the agenda items and the progresion of the meeting. Meetings discussions were about annex satelites, providing services to northern communties, providing more Indigenous radio…

Interview with Hardy Rheaume, a politician. The second part of the tape consists of Nellie Cournoyea taking a phone request. RecoHardy Rheaumerded in English.

CBC host Brian Cusins reads the report about oil exploration on Banks Island and the residents and trappers objection to such exploration.

A Native Voice Host, Billy Day encourages people to tell their old time stories and airs Ikaahuk Elder William Kuptana’s story about how people lived along ago.

Host of A Native Voice Edward Lennie provides local and regional news then interviews Billy Day on when he and other Elders first started teaching drum dancing, then traveling, and performing drum dances.

Host of A Native Voice Edward Lennie provides local and regional news then interviews with Billy Day about his employment and with foster care and or the adoption process as well as his first jobs when Inuvik first started up.

Northern Games performers singing and drumming by the Delta dancers, the Point Barrow team, and the Katyaaq (Tschigehchic) and Fort Good Hope Drummers.

Elders Sarah Kuptana, William Kuptana, Robert Kuptana, Kitty Roland, and Emma Dick speak to and send greetings to family and friends. James Ruben and Gideon Ruben report about ITC and Landclaims work in Inuvialuktun and English.