Taloyoak Story Teller and Gjoa Haven Fishermen

Host: Michael Haqpi Segment 1: Peter Peetooloot of Taloyoak talks about good hunting and fishing places. Peter Peetooloot talks about his childhood even before Taloyoak was a community. Segment 2: Silas Aittauq of Baker Lake is making dog harness from caribou skin legs. Segment 3: Hunters of Taloyoak fishing at a Fishing Weir with Kakivak. Segment 4: Silas Aittauq of Baker Lake is frying caribou meat the traditional way using rocks and Arctic Heather as fuel.

Caribou Hunting Tips, Name Sakes, Igloo Building and Dog Team Travel

Host: Saimataq Michael Interviewer: Peter Tapatai Segment 1: Elders of Baker Lake gather at Igloo having caribou cooked meat. Barnabas Peryour talks about the change of caribou migration route. Segment 2: Mark and Qillaq Ijjangiaq of Igloolik talking about naming babies with namesake. Segment 3: Mark Ijjangiaq is teaching how to make Igloo. Interviewer: Saimataq Micheal Segment 4: Peter Atsiqtaq talks about when he used to be a guide for Roman Catholic, R.C.M.P. and Hudson’s Bay Company between the communities of Kimmirut, Cape Dorset and Iqaluit by dog teams.

Dog team race to Taloyoak

Dog team race to Taloyoak with interviews from various mushers, square dancing in celebration and winner celebrations.

Winter Iqaluit

Malaya travels by qimutsik dog team across the ice of Frobisher Bay to Apex and prepares a lovely winter arctic char lunch with friend Joanna Awa.

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Host: Julie Ivalu Segment 1: Hannah Uyarak talks about how sinew was made. Hannah Uyarak talks about getting sinew from Narwhal back muscle, Caribou back and leg muscle, fox tail muscle and ring and bearded seal throat. Margaret Kipsigak and Madeline Ivalu demonstrate how sinew is made from Narwhal back muscle. Segment 2: Lydia Qalluttiaq Maliki making Traditional Inuit clothing from seal skin and dog fur scrapes.

Toonik Tyme Celebration

Feast at the school with throat singing, golf in the north. Toonik Tyme celebration with snowmobile racing, building an iglooviga, ice-skating, dog team races.

Johnny the Lemming 1

Joamie School student field trip heads out on the land. Students experience a dog team ride and participate on a videoconference with students from Argentina.

Ravens

Iqaluit children enjoying a dog team and planting a time capsule of survival tools and Inuit toys and learning about ice fishing.

Maggie Akittiq

Call in show topic humor. Guest Assuna Kilabuk shares a story about the time as a child he was left behind and dragged by his father’s dog team. Short clip of Simeonie Keenainak playing the accordion

Maggie Akittiq

Call in show topic: Dog slaughter: Guest Okalik Eegeesiak president of QIA discusses the issue of the past government’s slaughter of sled dogs.