ISBN

0773518878

Statement of Responsibility

Nancy Wachowich ; in collaboration with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak Katsak.

Publication Information

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press

Physical Description

viii, 301 p., [18] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Notes

Includes glossary of Inuktitut terms.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 19. 

Contents

Introduction: The Life History Project -- Pt. 1. Apphia Agalakti Awa -- Growing up on the Land: I Start to Recollect Bits and Pieces -- Marriage and Family: We Were Full of Children -- Shifting Winds: The First Time We Ever Lived with Qallunaat around Us -- Old Culture: Stories Since a Long, Long Time Ago --  Elder in the Settlement: There Is No Ending to the Stories of My Life -- Pt. 2. Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak -- Growing Up on the Land: My Beautiful Lakes! -- From Inuit to Qallunaat Culture: I Remember My First Day of School -- Marriage and Family: All This Stuff in My Hands, Carrying Lucas on My Back -- Reflections on a Childhood: They Spent All Those Years Trying to Change Me into a Qallunaaq -- Pt. 3. Sandra Pikujak Katsak -- Growing up in the Settlement: I Am the Oldest -- Teenage Years: When the Coffee Shop Closed -- Settlement Culture: At First None of the Teenagers Would Square-Dance -- Reflections on the Future: Acting Inuit or Acting Like Qallunaat. Significant Dates in Eastern High Arctic and Awa Family History -- Overview of Iglulingmiut and Mittimatalingmiut Culture and History.