Introduction-E

Tulugarjuaq who lived in Pangniqtuuq?
Saullu: He was from Qimmiqsuuq and Uummanarjuaq. I recall him being in
Qimmiqsuuq.
How did he become a minister? Was he taught by a minister?
Saullu: By Uqammak. And those people Naullaq and Killaapik. They had been taught
by him. I saw them both.
Who did he teach?
Saullu: Killaapik. Maybe that one was your mother’s maternal uncle?
Killaapik and Tulugarjuaq?
Saullu: Yes, and Naullaq. Those he taught in Uummanarjuaq.
This Tulugarjuaq, had he been in Uummanarjuaq a long time?
Saullu: Yes. He probably died in Qimmiqsuuq. I knew him to be there a long time when
I was a child. He was our minister while I was growing up. Peter was his baptismal
name. His son Markusi and his children use Peter as a surname.
And here are his descendants growing up!
Saullu: Yes, here [pointing] and here [pointing].
Oh, you are related, look, you’re related!
Saullu: This is my anngaq (child of brother/or a male cousin) Eena, who is my first
cousin’s child, and this is my nuaq (child of a sister/or female cousin) Myna. My
younger sister’s child is Myna.
Eena: Your mother and my grandmother were sisters, weren’t they?
Saullu: Yes, the oldest was my mother.
Who taught you to read in Inuktitut?
Saullu: I taught myself, by looking at letters. They used to get mail only, because they
didn’t have phones in the settlements. I would read the name in Inuktitut. That’s how I
learned, even though I don’t have anything written in my possession anymore. My
grandmother could also read in Roman. I was taught finals once by this one’s
grandfather.
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