8 min
Episode 26 - Diveky Collection - Robert Kimaktok December 3, 1976 - Three Women Force a Traveler to eat Inuinnaujugut / We Are Inuinnait
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- Society & Culture
Robert Kimaktok tells the story to George Diveky December 3, 1976 in Kugluktuk, Nunavut.
Notes from the tape - A traveler comes upon three women, each of whom gives him food he must eat, or be stabbed by one of the women's chin, which is a copper blade. If he eats all the food they give him, he'll explode: he manages to eat it all and survive with the help of ivik - grass...
In 2021, PI/KHS received a donation of almost three hundred Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut cassette tape and reel-to reel recordings of Inuit Elders and knowledge holders. These recordings were documented by George Diveky throughout the 1970s, during he and his wife Janet's time as teachers in Kugaaruk and Kugluktuk. As a student of Anthropology and Inuktut, George envisioned the recording project as a platform for knowledge-keeping during an era of rapid change in the Arctic, and a way to preserve valuable cultural and linguistic information for future generations of learners.
Robert Kimaktok tells the story to George Diveky December 3, 1976 in Kugluktuk, Nunavut.
Notes from the tape - A traveler comes upon three women, each of whom gives him food he must eat, or be stabbed by one of the women's chin, which is a copper blade. If he eats all the food they give him, he'll explode: he manages to eat it all and survive with the help of ivik - grass...
In 2021, PI/KHS received a donation of almost three hundred Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut cassette tape and reel-to reel recordings of Inuit Elders and knowledge holders. These recordings were documented by George Diveky throughout the 1970s, during he and his wife Janet's time as teachers in Kugaaruk and Kugluktuk. As a student of Anthropology and Inuktut, George envisioned the recording project as a platform for knowledge-keeping during an era of rapid change in the Arctic, and a way to preserve valuable cultural and linguistic information for future generations of learners.
8 min