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ᓇᕙᓕᒃ ᕼᐃᓕᓐ ᑐᓗᒐᕐᓇᒦᓐᖔᖅᑐᖅ ᐊᔾᔨ / Courtesy of Navalik Helen Tologanak / Pihimayaa Navalik Helen Tologanak<br />
ᕼᐃᓕᓐ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᒥᔅ ᕙᕋᐅᓐ.<br />
Helen and Miss Brown.<br />
Helen ovalo Miss Brown.<br />
ᐃᖅᑲᐅᒪᔭᕋ ᒥᔅ ᐳᕋᐅᓐ. ᐱᐅᒋᓂᖅᐹᒋᕙᓚ -<br />
ᐅᖅᑕᕗᑦ ᐅᐊᑦᓯᐅᔪᓂ. ᐅᓪᓗᒥᓱᓕ ᐃᓅᔪᖅ. 77-ᓂᒃ<br />
ᐊᕐᕌᒍᖃᓕᖅᑐᖅ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᐳᑎᔅ ᑲᓚᒻᐱᐊᒥ<br />
ᐅᐃᖃᑐᖅ ᕗᕋᐃᔭᓐᒥᒃ. ᐳᓛᕆᐊᖅᓯᒪᕋᑖᔪᔭᕋ ᒥᔅ<br />
ᐳᕋᐅᓐ ᐱᓯᒧᑦ ᖁᕕᐊᓇᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᑲᑎᖃᑎ ᒌᒃᑲᓐᓂ -<br />
ᕋᓐᓄᑦ, ᕿᐊᓇᖅᖢᓂ ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᖁᕕᐊᓇᓚᐅᑐᖅ.<br />
ᑐᓂᓚᐅᕌᖓ ᐊᔾᔨᖁᑎᓂᒃ ᐅᐊᑦᓯᔨᒋᖃᑦᑕᑎᓪᓗᑎᒍ<br />
ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐊᕕᓂᖏᑦ. ᕿᒥᕐᕈᐊᓕᕋᑦᑎᒍᑦ ᐊᔾᔩᑦ, ᕿᐊᓯᓚ -<br />
ᐅᖅᑐᖓ, ᐃᓕᑕᕆᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᓱᕈᓯᑯᓘᓚᐅᕋᑦᑕ ᐊᒻᒪ<br />
ᐊᒥᓱᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᐅᕙᓚᐅᖅᑐᑦ ᔅᑐᕆᖑ ᕼᐊᓪᒥ.<br />
ᕿᒥᕐᕈᐊᑎᓪᓗᓄᑦ ᐊᔾᔨᓂᒃ ᐊᒥᓱᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᐅᒪ ᓕᓚ -<br />
ᐅᖅᑕᒃᑲ: ᓂᕆᕕᒋᕙᓚᐅᖅᑕᕗᑦ, ᐊᕐᓇᐃᑦ ᐊᖑᑏᓪᓗ<br />
ᐊᑭᓕᕇᒃᖢᑎᒃ. ᑕᕝᕙᓂ ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᑕᑰᑎᕙ ᓚᐅᖅᑕᕗᑦ<br />
ᐊᓂᕗᑦ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᕙᓪᓗ ᓄᓇᑦᑎᓃᖔᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ.<br />
ᐊᕐᕌᒍᐃᑦ ᐊᓂᒍᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ,<br />
ᐃᓅᑑᖑᓇᖅᐸᓚᐅᑐᖅ, ᐊᖏᔪᖅᑳᓕᔭᖏᑦᑐᓂ<br />
ᐃᑦᑐᒃᑯᓕᔭᖏᑦᑐᓂᓗ. ᐃᑦᑐᑯᒃᑲ ᐊᓈᓇᓐᓂᒃ, ᐸᔅᑕ<br />
ᐊᒻᒪ ᓯᐅᕕᐊ ᑲᐃᓕᒃ, ᕋᐃᓐᑎᐅ ᔅᑕᐃᓴᓐᒥᐅ ᑕᐅ -<br />
ᓚᐅᑐᑦ, ᑭᖑᓂᐊᒍᑦ ᐃᓅᕕᖕᒧᑦ ᐊᐅᓪᓛᖅᖢᑎᒃ.<br />
ᐅᕙᒍᑦ ᑐᓗᒐᕐᓇᖅ ᓱᕈᓯᖏᑦ ᓯᕙᑖᕐᕕᐅᓕᕋᐃᖕᒪᑦ<br />
ᓯᓂᑦᑕᕆᐊᖅᐸᓚᐅᖅᑐᒍᑦ ᐃᑦᑐᒃᑯᑎᓐᓄᑦ,<br />
ᐊᒃᑲᑯᑎᓐᓄᑦ, ᐊᔭᒃᑯᑎᓐᓄᑦ, ᐃᒡᓗᒃᑯᑎᓐᓄᓘᓐᓃᑦ.<br />
ᑭᓯᐊᓂ ᐊᒥᓱᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑏᑦ ᖃᑕᓐᖑᑎᖃ -<br />
ᓚᐅᖏᑦᑐᑦ ᖃᓂᒃᑐᒦᑦᑐᓂᒃ, ᐊᒥᓱᑦ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᑦ<br />
ᑐᑭᓯᐊᓇᑎᒃ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᖏᑕᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ ᐅᐊᑦᓯᔭᐅᓪᓗᑕ.<br />
ᑕᐃᒪᐃᓕᐅᖏᓐᓇᓚᐅᖅᑐᒍᑦ ᐊᖏᓪᓕᕙᓪᓕ -<br />
ᐊᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂ, ᐊᐅᓪᓛᓕᕆᓪᓗᑕ ᔭᓗᓇᐃᕝᒧᑦ<br />
ᑐᔪᕐᒥᓪᓗᑕ ᐊᑲᐃᑦᓱ ᕼᐊᓪᒥ. ᑕᐃᒪᐃᒃᓴᐃᓐᓇᖅ,<br />
ᐊᖏᕐᕋᑎᓐᓂᒃ ᕿᒪᐃᔭᕆᐊᖃᖅᖢᑕ ᐃᓕᓐᓂ -<br />
ᐊᕆᐊᓕᕋᑦᑕ. ᐊᒥᓱᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕌᓂᒃᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᐃᓅᕕᖕᒥ<br />
ᔭᓗᓇᐃᕝᒥᓪᓗ. ᐊᓂᒐ ᐊᖏᔪᑦᓯᖅ ᑲᐃᓐ ᑕᐃᒪᐃ -<br />
ᓯᒪᒻᒥᔪᖅ. ᐅᓪᓗᐃᑦ ᐊᓂᒍᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ,<br />
band Brian. I recently went to visit Miss<br />
Brown in BC and it was a wonderful reunion,<br />
very emotional, but happy. She<br />
gave me photographs and slides of the<br />
years we spent with her while she was<br />
the supervisor. As we looked at the pictures<br />
and slides, I began to cry, recognizing<br />
us little girls and also many other<br />
hostel students of Stringer Hall. As we<br />
looked at the slides, many memories<br />
came back to me: the dining room<br />
where we had to eat, girls on one side<br />
and boys on the other side. This is when<br />
we can see our brothers and cousins and<br />
those from home.<br />
As years went by, it was a lonely life,<br />
without our parents and grandparents.<br />
Luckily my grandparents from my<br />
mother's side, Buster and Sylvia Kailek,<br />
lived at Reindeer Station, and they later<br />
moved to Inuvik. We Tologanak kids<br />
were lucky to get signed out on Saturdays<br />
to be with our grandparents, uncles,<br />
aunts, cousins. But most of the<br />
students did not have relatives close by,<br />
many could not understand English and<br />
the hostel way of life with strangers supervising<br />
us and looking after us.<br />
This went on until we were older students,<br />
then we moved onto to Yellowknife<br />
where we stayed at Akaitcho<br />
Hall. Again, we were still forced to leave<br />
home to attend residential school. Many<br />
graduated in those days from Inuvik and<br />
Yellowknife. My older brother Kane was<br />
one of them. As days go by, between<br />
September and June of each year, we<br />
were never allowed to go home to our<br />
hometowns for Christmas, not even for<br />
funerals even if our relatives and families<br />
passed away. If we got homesick, we<br />
yaga Miss Brown ovalo alianaktuk<br />
takuyaangani, ikpinaktuk kihimi<br />
alianaktuk. Tunihimayuk piksanik ovalo<br />
takuyakhanik amigaituni ukiuni<br />
havakhimagami. Kungiakhugit piksat<br />
ovalo takuyakhat, kialiktuguk, ilitagilikhugit<br />
mikiyut aknait ovalo amigaitut<br />
ilihagiaktukhimayut Stringer Hallmut.<br />
Kungiakhugit takuyakhat, amigaktut<br />
ihumaliktavut: nigiviit nani nigilikpaktugut,<br />
aknait ilangani ovalo angutit<br />
ilangani nigiviit. Hamna ilaani, takulikpaktatka<br />
nukavut ovalo anakatigiit<br />
ovalo tahapkoa ilihaktut angilgaptinit.<br />
Ukiugaaluni tikitpaktut, ilaani avaliitumik<br />
inuuhianut, mikhaanut angay -<br />
ukaat ovalo ataatatiat ovalo anaanatiat.<br />
Aliana ataatatiatka amaamamnit,<br />
Buster ovalo Sylvia kailek, inuuhimayut<br />
tuktuhiukvianit Reindeer Stationmi<br />
ovalo kinguani nuutitihimayut Inuvikmut.<br />
Tologanakut nutagait aliahuktut<br />
hiniktagiaganik hilataanit Stringer<br />
Hallmit Saturdaymi, ataatatiakatigiivut,<br />
angait, atait, anakatingit pulaagiaga nik.<br />
Kihimi amigaitut ilihaktut ilakatimi nik<br />
hanianiingitut, amigaitut ukagiaganik<br />
kalunaatitut naluyut ovalo hiniktakvimi<br />
inuuhianut aalangugamik atanguyainik<br />
ovalo munagiyunut.<br />
Hamna pikataktavut inuulgamingu -<br />
ligapta, nani nuutitihimayugut Yellow -<br />
knifemut ovalo hiniktakviani Akaitcho<br />
Hallmi. Ilaa, nani kimaktihimayavut<br />
angilgavut ilihagiaktukluta. Amigaitut<br />
inikhimayut ilihakvianit Inuvikmit ovalo<br />
Yellowknifemit. Angayuga Kane atauhiuyuk<br />
inikhimayuk. Ubluit tikiligaagata,<br />
kitkanit Septembermit Junemut tamaat<br />
ukiumi, angilgaulaitugut aliahukvimi,<br />
angilgauluni iluviklugit ilakativut.<br />
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