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am blessed with grandchildren, I want to be able to tell them about Qaumauq. I believe that legends start out with actual people like Qaumauq. I want to develop a story about Qaumauq so that perhaps it may become a legend. Although I did not expect Elisapee to give me much information about Qaumauq, she gave me quite a bit. What I heard from Pauloosie makes the story about Qaumauq more credible, especially since he said that he really believes that these things happened. However, I did not ask him about his thoughts on the aspect of shamanism so I do not know if he would back it up. I did have some problems getting information about the spectacular things, as both Paniaq and Pauloosie seemed reluctant to talk about them. It was only when I talked to Appitaq that the aspect of shamanism came to light. I really enjoyed this project as it gave me more information about what I had only heard in bits and pieces from my mother. Footnotes 1 Qulittalik and Pakak’s names are mentioned in Mathiassen, 1928, p. 17. It is written that they were living at Point Elisabeth and Cape Wilson in the winter of 1921-1922. 2 We find information about Sakimiaq in We Don’t Live In Snow Houses Anymore, Susan Cowan and Rhoda Inukshuk, p. 31. Ujukuluk gives us his memory of the killing which his father “Aatitaaq” was involved with. The dates of the events are given in the footnote as happening in 1920. References Interviews with elders: Pauloosie Angmarlik, Saullu Nakasuk, Elisapee Ootoova and Hervé Paniaq. Interview with Appitaq Enuaraq. Cowan, Susan, and Rhoda Inukshuk. 1976 We Don’t Live In Snow Houses Any More. Canadian Arctic Producers Ltd. Mathiassen, T. 1928 Material Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos. Copenhagen: Gyldendanske Boghandel. 150 Introduction to the Oral Traditions
Stories Introduction This chapter contains several stories that have been passed down by Inuit from one generation to another. Besides the stories which I collected, the chapter also contains the story of the Earth eggs told to Marie Lucie Uvilluq by her father George Agiaq Kappianaq, the story of Taliillajuut told to Maaki Kakkik by her grandmother, Miali Tuttu, and Lumaaju told to Tapia Keenainak by an elder. The students’ stories were collected in the first year of our collaboration with Jarich Oosten from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. The following are some of the many stories that I heard numerous times from my father as a child before I went off to the hospital in Montreal at the age of six. My mother would also tell us stories when my father was gone for an extended period of time and though they were the same ones that my father told they never had the same flavour. My father Michel Kupaaq Piugattuk E5-456 (1925-1996) was raised by his grandparents Augustine Ittuksaarjuat and Monica Ataguttaaluk. He learned the stories that he told to his own children as a child from his grandfather. Even though I received these stories from my father the retelling is coloured by many influences. My father’s stories were recorded by Bernard Saladin D’Anglure and transcribed by my late sister Elise Qunngaatalluriktuq and her husband Joe Attagutaluk. Those unaltered forms might be available through the department of anthropology at Laval University. I first wrote these stories out to satisfy a course requirement while working on my Bachelor of Education degree; that was the deciding factor in the selection of these particular stories and was hence the first influence . The second influence is that I am an Inuktitut language teacher; that influences any retelling that I do. The third influence that shows up in my retellings is that although I am an Inuktitut language teacher and know the mechanics of the language almost impeccably I am not what in Inuktitut is considered to be an “uqamminiq” someone who is linguistically nimble; therefore except for the “direct speech” the language is mine. When I was putting together “Aningagiik” I finally realized that all those snippets of stories of Aningagiik that I had heard were sagas of the same brother and sister pair and therefore put it together as I did. My father told me when I was compiling these stories that he had heard that the whale hunting took place from the shores of Niaqunnguu (Apex in Iqaluit) and that when the story finally came to Iglulik some of the singing of “lumaaju” was lost. I wrote “Iglu” in the manner that I did because that was how the telling of that particular legend came about. In the earlier days the telling of stories occurred more Stories – Introduction 151
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INTERVIEWING INUIT ELDERS Introduct
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Interviewing Inuit Elders Volume 1
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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S With
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We would like to thank Pauloosie An
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lectures at Leiden as well. The con
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Ooleepika, Hervé, Elisapee and Aaj
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Saullu: Yes. That’s the way it wa
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Inuit life and values. They thought
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own knowledge and experience and wa
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written from a totally different pe
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We’d like to hear you tell us you
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Were there a lot of people in your
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around. He arrived when I was fifte
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Yes. Elisapee: I would tag them fas
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This is while you are in labour? El
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was being taken care of. I kept my
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consider the fact that the child sh
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Were they taken along or left behin
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So that’s Qaaqiuq’s song. Elisa
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Christians, knowing what we know no
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Did you stay away from Mittimatalik
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their diapers and we’d change the
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the other wife traveled with the hu
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parents or relatives and I was awar
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would show that a child hadn’t be
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You know the date? October 7, 1933?
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Did the Catholic priest reside in A
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would play with my seal-bone dogtea
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That’s the first time I’ve hear
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Why? Paniaq: I was scared rather th
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took her for a wife. They had a son
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taboos anymore. They were allowed t
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Can you tell us a story of anngiaqa
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I did not quite understand somethin
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Who are they? Saullu: Meekai, Eva a
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How old were you when you started t
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Tulugarjuaq who lived in Pangniqtuu
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The needles were from your mother?
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Did your grandfather Jason die ther
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assisting in births as much?” Tha
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object that is used to keep the fee
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did not sleep too well. I knew they
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attended, if there were more people
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That is the first time I heard of t
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Did you ever assist someone who had
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Were prayers said for it also? Saul
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Is that how it used to be back then
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Were you told to do chores? Saullu:
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from what I learned from those two.
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Pauloosie Angmarlik Interviewers: M
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Did you have any children from your
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was born here in Iqaluit. They star
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Page 115 and 116: I’ll be asking about Christianity
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Page 136 and 137: August: saggaruut; [Mittimatalik].
Page 138 and 139: Upirngaallarik: Real spring in the
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Page 148 and 149: Teaching Children Julia Shaimaiyuk
Page 150 and 151: had become orphaned. They couldn’
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Page 154 and 155: Introduction to sewing By Nancy Kis
Page 156 and 157: Qaumauq Susan Enuaraq The Inuit Stu
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imaitillugu kisiani qaujigajunniqsa
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taima qaqqsaut tusaatuinnaramigit u
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taannaguuq uqaqtuni ”anguguma nir
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Amiraijaut [Iglulik] The month when
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Illunnguaq A ring of stone, used as
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Nurraq A first year caribou or musk
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Talujaaq A snowdrift which forms a
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