Introduction-E
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Introduction-E
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How about Christmas? Is it different now at Christmas?<br />
Pauloosie: Christmas is still the same. But back then we didn’t have all the southern<br />
goods. We mostly had homemade goods. They would choose the best [item] to give.<br />
They would give anything at all at Christmas. The gifts would include things like kamiik,<br />
and even skins, because there was nothing else to give. People didn’t mind receiving<br />
these. Today, it seems like they only want to receive nice, new things.<br />
Back then there was no wrapping paper either?<br />
Pauloosie: No.<br />
How, then, would they be tied, or were they not?<br />
Pauloosie: The ones that needed to be tied would be tied when possible, and sometimes<br />
I saw some wrapped in cloth, but not always.<br />
Did you celebrate Christmas only on Christmas [Day]?<br />
Was Christmas celebrated for a whole week?<br />
Pauloosie: More emphasis was put on the real reason for Christmas, and the beginning<br />
of the New Year was also celebrated.<br />
Did you go to church on Christmas Eve or in the morning?<br />
Pauloosie: In the morning, but we didn’t go twice.<br />
Did you go to church in the evening on Christmas?<br />
Pauloosie: Later in the morning or in the afternoon. I know we didn’t go twice.<br />
How about Good Friday...what did you used to do?<br />
Pauloosie: I don’t really know if it was always celebrated when I was a child.<br />
What did you do when somebody died? Did you have to wait long<br />
to bury them? Where did you put the deceased?<br />
Pauloosie: Today, the body is kept, waiting for relatives to arrive. That did not appear<br />
to be the case back then.<br />
110 <strong>Introduction</strong> to the Oral Traditions
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