Portrait photographs
Clothing and dress
Tents
The image shows a summer camp made up of tents and a few wood structures in the delta. In the photo we can see a child being loved up by a couple of dogs and a women in the background smiling. Credit: Martha Harry
Inglangasuk, Lennie
Digital images
Summer
Buildings
An aerial photo of Colville Lake in the summer.
Hunt, David E., 1925-
Storytelling
Travels
Dogs
Grandchildren
Fishnet Fishing
Beluga Whale
Hunting
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Traditional Food
Visitors
Children
Dogfeed
Ptarmigans
Wood
Bears
Food Preparation
Northern Games
Dancing
July
Traditional Knowledge Teaching
Game Warden
Picnics
Birthdays
Bear
August
Illness
Death
Seal
Mary Kailek is sharing memories of she and her family’s travels, of various visitors, of beluga whale hunting, of fishnet fishing, of traditional food preparation, of making dryfish and also teaching the grandchildren who wanted to learn how to make dryfish, as well as teaching the young about fishnet fishing, of the Northern games and dancing in Inuvik, of gathering wood, of picnicing, of the different busy lifestyle out on the land compared to the life of ease now a days, of her husband Buster getting sick, and more. To be continued.
Kailek, Mary
Inuvialuktun
Summer Memoirs by Mary Kailek Final Part 2
Camping
Mary Kailek is completing her story from the previous stories of her summer memoirs. Final Part 2.
Aerial photographs
The photo shows an old post card from Kugluktuk, it shows the summer view of Kugluktuk from the air.
Sunset
Trees
Winter
A photo of a sunset through willows with trees in the background.
Storms
Thunderstorms
The photo shows a Sunset & Thunderstorm on the Steward River.
Supernatural Powers, Woman with a Tail Legend by Bob Kanayok
Legend
Supernatural Powers
Inuit
Elder Bob Kanayok is telling a legend of a woman with a tail and some Inuit had supernatural powers.
Kanayok, Bob
Alunik, Ishmael
Inuinnaqtun
Apian, Joe
Anaumiq, Amos
Memorana, Jimmy
Inuktaluk, Roy
Kuptana, Frank
Haogaq, Phillip
Igutuk, Harry
Aquaqhiun, Andy
A photo of Joe Apian, Amos Anaumiq, Jimmy Memorana, Roy Inuktalik, Frank Kuptan, Philip Haogaq, Harry Igutuk, and Andy Aquaqiun with tents and buildings behind them.
Schooners
Hides & skins
A photo of the schooner Blue Fox surround by ice in the springtime.
This photo collection was used during the interviews of the Aulavik Oral History Project to get the names of people previously not identified. The complete collection was originally obtained from Mrs Susie Sydney (formerly Mrs Susie Wolki) by Peter J. Usher (Northern Science Research Group, Indian Affairs and Northern Development) in 1968 to be held at Library and Archives Canada (then called Public Archives of Canada).
Physical collection housed at Library and Archives Canada.
Survival
Trapping
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
Adam, Paul
Le Meur, Father Robert
English
Surviving Very Hard Times by Agnes Nigiyok
Starving
Mistreated
Step Parents
Sikoaluk's
Whitemen
Relgion
Poor
Uummarmiut
Marriage
Lennies
Shamanism
Agnes Nigiyok is telling a story of when she was a young girl of the many years of hardships she endured when she lived with her step parents, the Sikoaluks . She recalls how they let her suffer in need of clothes and left her hungry most of the time she was with them. She speaks of staying with the Lennie family who treated her like their own child, and staying with various families while growing up, then getting married where she felt she was treated really well and finally got a good home, and more.
Nigiyok, Agnes
Music
Singing
Drums (Musical instruments)
Guitars
Video recording
Aglukark, Susan
A photo of Susan Aglukark performing with a band at the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Inuvik.
Art
Carving
Painting
Clayton, Susan
A photo of Susan Clayton painting a wall hanging at the Alaska Indian Arts.
Gordon, Susan
Nature
Kailek, Susan
A photo of Susan Kailek standing near several fallen trees.
Publicity photographs
Peffer, Susan
Tiktalik, Susie
The image shows Susie Tiktalik in traditional clothes.
This photo collection was used during the interviews of the Aulavik Oral History Project to get the names of people previously not identified.
Physical collection housed at the NWT Archives.
Susie Tiktalik Life Story Inteview Part 1
Hiking
Family
Back Packing
Babies
Hunting Methods
Travel
Fishing
Sharing
Animal Skin Clothing
Homes
Shelters
Snow Houses
Bows and Arrows
Mosquitoes
Gatherings
Alexandria Elias interviews Susie Tiktalik about when she was a very young girl, about their culture and way of life long ago prior to European arrival. Part 1, to be continued.
Elias, Alexandrea
Susie Tiktalik Life Story Inteview Part 2
Caribou Hunting Methods
Inuksuit
Muskox
Fish
Tools
Snow House
Drymeat
Waterfowl
White People
Dry Fish
Women
Alexandria Elias interviews Susie Tiktalik about when she was a young girl, and sharing stories that she remembers from long ago prior to European arrival. Final Part 2.
Susie Tiktalik Life Story Part 5 with Alexandrea Elias
Parents
Competitions
Shamans
Amulet
Spell
CHAK host Louie Goose introduces Susie Tiktalik being interviewed by Alexandrea Elias. Susie is telling Part 5 of her life story.
Iñupiatun
Susie Tiktalik Life Story Part II with Alexandrea Elias
Geese
Stefansson
Various Families
Food
Hunger
Caribou
Bow and Arrow
Inukshuk
Horn Tools
Shaman Doctors
Wife Snatching
CHAK host Louie Goose introduces Susie Tiktalik being interviewed by Alexandrea Elias. Susie is telling Part II of her life story and also sings a song.
Susie Tiktalik’s Life Stories After Just Getting Married then Life Stories Prior to Marriage
Just Married
Stolen Wife
Abuse
Separated
Cached meat
Modern Guns
Seasonal Camps
Whiteman
Summer Gathering
Caribou Antlers
Igloos
Nomadic
Sewing Traditional Clothing
Helping
Dance House
Hunting Preparation
Alexandria Elias interviews Susie Tiktalik who shares her personal life stories of when she just got married, prior to having her children. She then tells other stories prior to being married of summer gatherings, nomadic traditional Inuvialuit lifestyles, customs and traditions.
Susie Tiktalik’s Life Stories of Happy Times and Hardships Long Ago 2, Complete story
Caribou Hunting
Abandonment
Adoption
Childbirth
Guns
Fatal Flu
Traders
Suffering
Bear Mauling
Shaman
Animals
Rock Houses
Polar Bear
Dryfish
Trading Post
Old Graves
Mysterious Houses and Belongings
Alexandria Elias interviews Susie Tiktalik who shares her personal life stories when she was a young married woman of plentiful caribou and happy times and also speaks of various hardships and sufferings such as abandonment, births, deaths, the big flu that killed many people, bear mauling, shamanism, their travels, polar bear scare, and more.The first half is the same story as the previous story.
Susie Tiktalik’s Life Stories Prior to Marriage
Relations
Wildlife
Traditional Foods
Blindness
Healing
Grief
Anger
Gathering
Traditional Clothing
Superstitions
Sewing
Traditions
Culture
Old Time Hunting Methods
Inuksuits
Snaring
Eggs
Food Caches
Traditional Tools
Traditional Games
Wife Swap
Nomadic Lifestyle
Alexandria Elias interviews Susie Tiktalik about her life stories prior to being married, of their nomadic lifestyle, traditions, superstitions, hunting methods, traditional food, gatherings, clothing and tools, means of transportation, shamans, relationships, and more.