Introduction-E

Yes, so these women would be left. How were they brought back?
Pauloosie: After the dogteam stopped they would disperse and search for a hole to wait at.
Did the dogs wait?
Pauloosie: The dogs were looked after by their driver.
Yes. Did they have rifles, or was it before they had rifles?
Pauloosie: They only used harpoons then. They used harpoons only, and some of them
would catch a seal right away. These were seals caught by women.
Were you in awe when you caught your first seal?
Pauloosie: Very much so.
When they caught their first animal, did they have a celebration for them?
No? They were only hunting for food, weren’t they?
Pauloosie: Yes, but the midwife who brought him into the world always had to be given
a piece of meat.
Did they have a feast for a person who caught his first animal?
Pauloosie: Yes. This first animal had to be eaten in its entirety. This was only when it
was possible to do so. If it was not possible, then they didn’t do it.
When did they stop really using dogteams?
Pauloosie: It was only after they moved to Pangniqtuuq during the year that dogs were
dying, around 1962. That was the beginning. A lot of people lost their dogs then.
Were you still in an outpost camp then?
Pauloosie: Yes.
Did their dogs become sick?
Pauloosie: Yes.
100 Introduction to the Oral Traditions