Introduction-E

Pauloosie Angmarlik
Interviewers: Myna Ishulutak and Eena Alivaqtaq
Translation: Ooleepika Ikkidluak
Frédéric Laugrand
When were you born? I would like to know.
Pauloosie: Since you’d like to know, it was October 1, 1911. I was born on the islands
around Pangniqtuuq.
Who were your parents?
Pauloosie: Miqquksia was my birth mother.
How about your father?
Pauloosie: Really and truly, nowadays I’m now able to say it. I think my mother had been
raped by my father. I was fathered by someone other than my mother’s husband.
Maybe your mother had committed adultery?
Pauloosie: She had been raped. I would like to know where the term qunujurniaqtaq has
come from. It is an old word, but not among the Uqqurmiut. Qunujurniarniq is a new
term. It is only now that people use it.
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