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PAULUSIE NOVALINGA
SAMMY KUDLUK
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Remember these Ski-doos? Caribou hunting.
MM: You mentioned that you purchased a snowmobile for
$100.00. Did it last long, like a year or more?
Maatiusi: I don't think it even lasted a year. Most of the
time it was inside a shack and sometimes the Catholic missionary
would use it. Sometimes I loaned it to other hunters. It was
the most expensive item I ever bought with the only $100 I had.
At that time, if I had used the money to get supplies such as groceries
and ammunition, the $100 would have lasted a long time.
Money was very valuable such that if you bought something, it
was to last a long time. We still had our dogteams and kayaks
that didn't require any expenses to operate and we didn't even
think to use money on them.
MM: Did other people ask to use the snowmobile?
Maatiusi: Yes. There were other people wanting to use it and
I would lend it to them, but only when I went along with them.
At first it was not easy to understand fully how the snowmobile
operated but, with practice, we got along very well. We learned
how to deal with the problems such as, when it froze, you had to
urinate on it in order to thaw the frozen part or area.
If you had a camp stove, you could just light it up and make
hot water by melting snow. You had to make hot water with your
teapot and sometimes you had to keep pouring hot water onto the
snowmobile if it kept freezing.
Sometimes people didn’t have time to get on their snowmobiles
because it took off too fast. And the runaway snowmobile
would either hit a rock or fall off a small cliff.
The snowmobile had a life of its own which was quite different.
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