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.

Building An Igloo

Instructors Theo Ikummaq, David Niaquttia and Bart Hannah Kappianaq teach Ataguttaaluk School students how to survive on the land in the wintertime. Morning class learns about maps, navigation, using direction of snow drifts, stars, sun, GPS, and bringing proper essentials. Theo Ikummaq teaches how to make an igloo for shelter. Theo Ikummaq takes the students on an overnight trip and teaches students how to hunt and take care of their equipment and clothing, and learn about ice conditions.

Rankin: Bear Story / Graduation 95-96 Taloyoak Square Dance

Host: Judy Lee 2nd Host: Noah Tiktaq Segment 1: The beginning of the school for kindergarten in Rankin Inlet. Segment 2: Elder Samuel Nahaulaituq from Taloyoak tells a story about a polar bear. The bear broke into his igloo. Segment 3: Taloyoak square dance.

Jane Flaherty

Piseolak Alainga voice overs a footage of Canadian Armed Forces going caribou hunting in Iqaluit. Canadian Armed Forces in Iqaluit learn how to make an igloo and take target practice.

Noah Papatsie

Youth learn how to survive on the land and how to build an igloo. People of Baker Lake race snow machines on the open water. Leevede Atagoyuk visits Nuiyak school in Sanikiluaq and interviews grade 11 students.

Blandina Makkik

The signing of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement in Igloolik on April 30, 1990 Over four hundred people attended. Paul Quasa, Tom Siddon and Dennis Patterson give opening statements. They also gather in a qaggiq (communal igloo) to celibrate and drum dance. Blandina interviews Paul Quasaq, Jack Anawa and John Amagoalik about the signing of Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and what the next steps will be.