Portrait photographs
Northern Games
Ear Weight Contest
Kasook, Charlie
The photo shows the northern game, Ear Weight Contest that is being performed by Charlie Kasook.
Storytelling
Mother
Hiking
Trapping
Gatherings
Games
Homes
Dances
Seals
Qulliq (Traditional Lamp)
Dogs
Traditional Food and Drinks
Caribou
Hunting
Bows and Arrows
Snow Houses
Fishing
Christmas
Trading Post Store
Alcohol
Sewing
Frank Kuptana is storytelling about his earliest memories of traveling alone with his mother who was packing him, of hard times and good times, of his mom remarrying, of the gatherings, games, visiting, and dances, of their homes built, of hunting, of the many people, traditional hunting methods, of his mom calling caribou during caribou hunts, of feeling like an orphan, people trapping for foxes with dog teams prior to skidoos, of returning to his birth place, then trapping with Agnavigak, Christmas gatherings, fishing, and more.
Kuptana, Frank
Inuinnaqtun
Aerial photographs
Night
Inlets
The image shows the east view from NiVj-7 (between NiVj-2 and NiVj-5), Ptarmigan Bay.
Taken during the Herschel Island and Yukon North Slope Inuvialuit Oral History Project for the Inuvialuit Social Development Program.
Nagy, Murielle (Photographer)
Clothing and dress
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.
Carpenter, Fred
A photo of Agnes and Fred Carpenter with their son George, in Eskimo parkas, on Easter Sunday morning.
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.
Eastern Arctic Shaman Stories by Johnny Ruben
Eastern Arctic Inuit
Shamans
Minister
Inuvialuktun
First Whiteman
A Long Time Ago host, Ishmael Alunik, airs Johnny Ruben storytelling. Johnny is telling a legend told by the Eastern Arctic Inuit about Shamans followed by a short story of their missing friend.
Ruben, Johnny
Eating & drinking
Rest periods
The image shows a group of people gathering to eat and relax, while they have a little break. Credit: Martha Harry
Inglangasuk, Lennie
Dinners and dining
Cooking
A photo of a woman who is sitting down at the dinner table eating corn on the cob.
Boats
White whale
Whaling
Arctic Ocean
A photo of Eddie Gruben with a beluga whale and a boat called "Tootsie" on the shores of Tuktoyaktuk.
Oral History
Interview
Genealogy
Family
Births
Inuvialuktun Names
Adoptions
Deaths
Marriages
Cathy Cockney interviews Edgar Kotokak about his family genealogy with help from interpreter Agnes White.
Kotokak, Edgar
Cockney, Cathy
White, Agnes
English
Edgar Kotokak then Andy Cockney Storytelling
Lifestyle
First Nations
Animals
Travels
Hardships
Airplane
Employment
Staples
Trading Posts
Traditional Foods
Special Constable
Various Families
Easter
Dewline
Death
Oil
Edgar Kotokak and Andy Cockney are telling oldtime stories including their lifestyle stories while speaking with the unidentified interviewer.
Cockney, Andy
Unidentified Interviewer
Edgar Kotokak then Jimmy Komeak Lifestyle Interview and Stories
Hudson Bay
Parenting
Traditional Teachings
Caucasians
Transportation
Residential School
Police
Reindeer Herding
Community Justice
Medicine Men
Inuit Games
Edgar Kotokak then Jimmy Komeak are telling lifestyle stories and being interviewed by an unidentified interviewer.
Komeak, Jimmy
Plants
A photo of a Rhubarb-like plant (edible raw) shown to us by Lucy Inglangasuk
Edith Haogak and Sarah Kuptana Interview
Starvation
Survival
Photos
Clothing
Murielle Nagy and Agnes White continue interviewing Edith Haogak and Sarah Kuptana about traditional place names and about their lifestyle and stories from long ago. Edith and Sarah also identify people in the photos and share some genealogy.
This recording is from the Aulavik Oral History Project undertaken by the Inuvialuit Social Development Program.
Nagy, Murielle
Haogak, Edith
Kuptana, Sarah
Edith Haogak Interview and Lifestyle Stories
Traditional Food
Fish
Relations
Agnes White interviews Edith Haogak who is also storytelling about their lifestyle and traditional land use areas when she was younger including stories about her parents, and more. Audio fades in and out sometimes.
Edith Haogak Interview then Agnes White Storytelling
Childbirth
Agnes White interviews Edith Haogak about their families' traditional lifestyle long ago prior to European contact. Agnes White then begins storytelling and shares memories of her younger days.
Traditional Place Names
Snowhouses
Mapping
Agnes White is interviewing Edith Haogak about where and how she and her family lived at various places long ago. Edith is also storytelling as she identifies many traditional place names.
Edith Hoagak Traditional Lands and Life Stories
Fishing Areas
Traditional Clothing
Murielle Nagy and Jean Harry are interviewing Edith Haogak about the traditional areas that they were flying over. Edith also shares stories about the areas they were flying over. She also identifies the traditional areas where they lived and traveled, in either English and or Inuvialukun or both. Note: some of the audio is very low. Murielle then briefly interviews another Inuvialuit lady in English then the interview returns back to Edith.
Harry, Jean
Stages (Platforms)
Elias, Edna
A photo of Edna Elias standing in Jim Koe Park.
Elanik, Edward
Lennie, Edward
A photo of Edward Lennie standing by the wall in Inuvik.
Keating, Lois
A photo of Edward Lennie & Lois Keating sitting on a couch together.
Edward Lennie Interviews Victor Allen and Sam Raddi about the Cope Meeting
Caribou Herd
Cope meeting
Freddie Carmichael Plane Charters
Oil Company Explosives
Fish and Wildlife Concerns
COPE Office
Imperial Oil
Whale Hunting Season
Inuvialuit Input
Host of A Native Voice Edward Lennie interviews Victor Allen and Sam Raddi about the COPE meeting and Imperial Oil’s proposed oil company work and hunting, fishing, and wildife concerns.
Raddi, Sam
Allen, Victor
Iñupiatun
Awards
A photo of Edward Lennie receiving an award and shaking hands with a woman who is giving him his award. At the Eskimo Olympics in Fairbanks Alaska.