Peter Esau Shirley Esau Lifestyle Interview
Oral History
Interview
Storytelling
Lifestyle
Language
Travels
Traditional Food
Trapping
Homes
Animals
Employment
Police Patrol
Midwifery
Medicare
Residential School
Fishing
Hunting
Family
Murielle Nagy and Agnes White interview Peter and Shirley Esau and they share and discuss personal life stories. Four people speaking all at once for some of the time. Shirley then shares stories from her younger days.
This recording is from the Aulavik Oral History Project undertaken by the Inuvialuit Social Development Program.
Nagy, Murielle
White, Agnes
Esau, Peter
Esau, Shirley
English
Inuvialuktun
Joe Nasogaluaks’s Life Stories Between November 1922 to March 1923
Travel
Food Shortage
Hudson Bay
Christmas Gathering
Sealing
Drygoods
Dogs
Hunger
Host of A Long Time Ago Beatrice Niptanateak airs Joe Nasogaluak’s life stories from November 1922 to March 1923.
Niptanateak, Beatrice
Nasogaluak, Joe
A Long Time Ago CBC Inuvik - Stories and legends of the old days [Inuvialuktun and Gwich'in with translated to English version]. Featured speakers Edward [Gallagher] Arey of Aklavik telling the story of "The animal tribe dance', and Donald Greenland of Aklavik speaking on "The expectancy of people many years ago".
A Long Time Ago CBC Inuvik. Host Louie Goose.
Arey, Edward [Gallagher]
Greenland, Donald
Parents
Siblings
Grandparents
Deaths
Lifestyles
Clothing
Sewing
Alcohol
Various Families
Flu
Christmas
Traditional Clothing
Hester Adam is storytelling about her life stories of her lifestyle when she was younger, of who her parents and grandparents are, her siblings, of how and where they lived, their travels, and more. Part 1. To be continued.
Adam, Hester
Visitors
Tents
Hester Adam is continuing her stories of when she was younger of when they got visitors from the Eastern Arctic as they watched them put up their tent and marveled at all that they had. Part 3. To be continued.
Marriage
Death
Christmas Festivities
Fishnet Fishing
Ice Conditions
Staples
Child
Hester Adam is continuing her life stories of her younger days, of when she got married, of traveling for Christmas, of a young girl passing away, of trapping, and more.
Wildlife
Singing
Dancing
Illness
Store
Hester Adam is continuing her life stories from long ago, of hunting stories, of the Christmas Gathering at Ikaahuk (Sachs Harbour), of all the people going to the store, of the dancing, and more. Part 5. To be continued.
Hospital
Ball Games
Nomadic Lifestyle
Prayers
Marriages
1936
Births
Hester Adam is continuing her life stories from long ago, of their many travels with various people, of their nomadic lifestyle, encountering illnesses, and ball games, and more. Part 6. To be continued.
Childbirth
1937
1942
Traditional Lamp (Qulliq)
Hester Adam is completing her final, part 7, life stories from when she was young, of listening to the old timers telling stories that she really enjoyed listening to, of their travels, places they lived, and of Christmas gatherings and singing, and more.
Wood
Ice
Orphan
Parental Teachings
Gun Shot
Eastern Inuit (Qangmalit)
Hester Adam is continuing her life stories of her lifestyle when she was younger, of their travels, of trapping, getting and sawing wood, getting ice, and more. Part 2. To be continued.
Adam, Paul
Wolki, Sandy
Collis Dick Paul Adam Lifestyle Interviews
Mapping
Agnes White interviews Collis Dick and Paul Adam about their lifestyles, places they’ve traveled, and they also share stories.
Dick, Collis
Survival
Fur Sale
Challenging Times
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.
Wolki, Bessie
Raddi, Ivy
Le Meur, Father Robert
Alaskan Elders Speak to and Send Greetings to Family and Friends
Bible Story
Greetings
Friends
Elders Advice
Alaskan Elder, Richard Tukli, shares a Bible story about Jesus followed by Alaskan Elders, Suzie Kasaak, Lucy Ahvuakana, Sarah Kunangnan, David Otoana, Samuel Kunangna, and Bessie Eriklok who speak to and send greetings to family and friends in Canada on the Saturday Inuit Show.
Alunik, Ishmael
Tukli, Richard
Kasaak, Suzie
Ahvuakana, Lucy
Kunangnan, Sarah
Otoana, David
Kunangnan, Samuel
Eriklok, Bessie
Iñupiatun
Esau Egalyak Genealogy Interview then Ida Aivek’s Genealogy Interview
Genealogy
Inuvialuktun Names
Adoptions
Cathy Cockney interviews Esau Elgayak then Ida Aivek about their family genealogies with the help of an interpreter.
Cockney, Cathy
Aivek, Ida
Elgayak, Esau
Unidentified Interpreter
Inuinnaqtun
Cathy Cockney interviews Ida Aivek about her family genealogy with help from an unidentified interviewer.
Unidentified Interviewer
Inuit Tarpirisat Canada (ITC)
Robert Kuptana is interviewing Noah Akhiatak from Ulukhatok, N.T. about his opinions regarding a more fair representation with the Western Inuvialuit and the voting process with the I.T.C (Inuit Tapirisat of Canada). Interview is in English and Inuinnaqtun.
Kuptana, Robert
Akhiatak, Noah
Northern Games
Music
Fiddling
Northern games fiddle contestants playing fiddle tunes
Ruben, Francis
Inuktittut
Akisuqyumi from Iqaluit does a talk at the beginning then introduces the gospel singers from Iqaluit, Iqaluktuuttiaq, and Cape Dorset. They are singing gospel songs in Inuktitut on the Native Language Program.
Akisuqyumi
Other Individual singers in the group not named.
Inuktitut
Cathy Cockney is interviewing Andrew Akoakhion about his family genealogy with help from an unidentified interpreter.
Akoakhion, Andrew
Harry Egotak then Mary Akoakhion Genealogy Interviews
Infanticide
Cathy Cockney interviews Harry Egotak then Mary Akoakhion about their family genealogies with help from an unidentified interpreter.
Egotak, Harry
Akoakhion, Mary
Alaskan Elders Speak to and Send Greetings to Family and Friends in Inupiaq.
Several Inupiaq Elders speak to and send greetings to family and friends in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories and in Nunavut on The People Speak Inuit Program.
Brower, Tom
Brower, Kate
Leavitt, Rose
Akpik, Greta
Ningeok, Jonas
Akpik, Jeanette
Tegoshak, Margaret
Patkotak, Steve
Patkotak, Jane
Jack Analak and Charlie Avakana interviews and Old Time Stories
Culture
Iniunnaqtun
Education
Healthcare
Hunters and Trappers Committee
Inuit Tapirisat of Canada
Land
Land Claims
Food
Waterfowl
Interview with Jack Alanak on language, culture, and hospital followed by Robert Kuptana speaking with Charlie Avakana who is telling an old time story and interview on language, culture, food, education, land, and land claims, etc.
Alanak, Jack
Avakana, Charlie
Inuvialuit Elders Storytelling Gathering, Inuvik, November 2019
Oral history
Elders
Connie Alanik telling stories about language differences on the last day of the Inuvialuit Elders Storytelling Gathering.
Alanik, Connie
Stewart, David (videographer)
Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Pitquhiit-Pitqusiit
Sing-Along at the Inuvialuit Elders Storytelling Gathering
The attendees of the Inuvialuit Elders Storytelling Gathering having a sing-along on the final day of the gathering. Agnes White brought a hymn book that the group is flipping through.
Arey, Renie
Arey, Nellie
Wolki, Fred
Krengnektak, George
Kuptana, Elizabeth
Thrasher, Annie
Carpenter, Margaret
Kudlak, Mary
Lennie, Sammy
Amos, Beverly