Introduction-E

When you were trying to do things on your own?
Saullu: Yes, trying to do things on our own.
Pauloosie: Yes, when I started trying to do things on my own.
Saullu: That is avuti-.
Pauloosie: That’s when I was trying to be on my own, like that. It’s the same as if you
are now living away from your father’s place. This is its meaning.
Where was it that people used to be hungry?
Pauloosie: We used to hear about people being hungry all over. It wasn’t always in the
same place. It was all over.
When you were made to move, was that the first time you saw an airplane,
when they came to pick you up? You were picked up by plane, weren’t you?
Pauloosie: No [it wasn’t the first time I saw an airplane], and yes we were picked up by
plane.
Was that the first time you saw an airplane?
Pauloosie: No, during the war I used to see American airplanes.
Was it scary seeing an airplane for the first time?
Pauloosie: Yes, a little bit.
Where did the plane land?
Pauloosie: On the water. There were two American airplanes that came to Pangniqtuuq
while the war was on. They used to land on the water then.
Do you know what year it was?
Pauloosie: 1945 maybe, around then.
Was that when you were made to move to Pangniqtuuq, in 1945?
Pauloosie: No, it was around 1962 that we were made to move to Pangniqtuuq. That
fall, in 1963, Elaijah, the one who was known as Anirniliaq, and I started being taught
to be lay ministers.
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