Makivik Magazine Issue 72
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Sometimes you would fall through the ice and if everything is all<br />
right, you just stop and lift yourself out. However if the driver went<br />
into the water as well, we had to hurry to bring him back home as<br />
soon as possible. Sometimes runaway snowmobiles would even<br />
hit houses.<br />
When the snowmobile was working okay, they were very fun<br />
to use. Today we now have well made snowmobiles and I expect<br />
they'll make even better ones. The people, the hunters, are very<br />
skilled in using them. When they know where to go fishing or to go<br />
hunting animals they don't stay out long anymore and they catch<br />
more than we used to during our days.<br />
MM: When they started to pull sleds with their snowmobiles,<br />
did you use the same kind that you used for dog sledding?<br />
Maatiusi: We did. We kept improving the sleds whenever<br />
we discussed them amongst ourselves and then everyone would<br />
start having the same kind of sleds to pull by snowmobiles. Many<br />
things started to come about such as compasses and nowadays<br />
they use Global Positioning Systems. Even in bad weather people<br />
can know where they are with the GPS. If they feel they can make<br />
it home, they usually arrive even in bad weather.<br />
MM: When they started making hitches for the sleds, do you<br />
recall how they were being made?<br />
Maatiusi: Yes I do. They didn't even try to experiment with different<br />
types of hitches. They mostly started to copy the types of<br />
hitches that were being used by tractors. As the number of people<br />
who owned sleds increased, we started to use a more standardized<br />
version of sled hitch. Today's sled is still made much like before<br />
with cross bars on top of the two runners. Unlike before when they<br />
tied the crossbars to the runners, they now nail them on to the<br />
runners. I am certain that there are some who still prefer to use<br />
the traditional type of sleds. But many people here in Puvirnituq<br />
use sleds with their crossbars nailed onto its runners.<br />
MM: The speed of snowmobiles is increasing all the time. Do<br />
you recall when you felt you would start losing your things?<br />
Maatiusi: No not really, although people would lose some<br />
gas containers and sleeping bags. It doesn't happen as often as<br />
before now.<br />
MM: And because they use boxes nowadays?<br />
Maatiusi: That's right. A lot of them do and some of them can<br />
even sleep in them. They now customize their sleds to include<br />
a box in which you can just sleep whenever you need to after a<br />
long journey.<br />
MM: When you got your first snowmobile, did you travel to<br />
other communities?<br />
Maatiusi: Yes I did go to other communities. I used to travel<br />
to Inukjuak, even alone sometimes. Although it wasn't a safe place<br />
to travel alone, we used to send people to Inukjuak and Akulivik by<br />
themselves. Today people are asked not to travel alone anymore. Even<br />
snowmobiles that are made today will eventually breakdown. I do<br />
recall people travelling alone quite often with their snowmobiles.
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