Introduction-E

Did they drown while they were out hunting?
Saullu: They were out hunting on the other side of Qipisa.
Can you give us the names of those who died by sickness?
Saullu: Yes. Mosesie died in Pangniqtuuq, and Ooleepika died in Qipisa.
Those that drowned, who were they again? Silasie and who?
Saullu: Silasie, who was adopted by Quaraq here. They say he drowned up the river.
Those that drowned while they were out hunting,
had the weather been bad?
Saullu: The day before, somebody else had gone out on the ice that the two brothers
later went out on.
On the ice?
Saullu: Yes, on the ice.
Jason was your grandfather. Can you talk about him?
Saullu: I didn’t know him. I’ve only heard about him. Before [my grandmother] had a
husband, she had given birth to my father. She ended up marrying someone else.
Jason, he was your grandfather? Your father’s father was a qallunaaq?
And she ended up with another husband?
Saullu: Yes, she ended up having an Inuk for a husband who was the father of Jusipee
and his siblings. They – my father’s younger brothers and sister – had Qaurniq as a
father. It is from him that Jusipee’s children are Qaurniq. [They took their grandfather’s
name].
Did you consider Jusipee as your real grandfather?
Saullu: No. Qaurniq was the one I considered my real grandfather. The one who was
the father of Jusipee and his siblings, Tauki and Joanasie. Those were his children and
their only sister probably also had him as a father, my only aunt. They say it is so.
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