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Saqiyuq stories from the lives of three Inuit women
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A grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter take us on a remarkable journey in which the cycles of life - childhood, adolescence, marriage, birthing and child rearing - are presented against the con...
A grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter take us on a remarkable journey in which the cycles of life - childhood, adolescence, marriage, birthing and child rearing - are presented against the contrasting experiences of three successive generations. Their memories and reflections give us poignant insight into the history of the people of the new territory of Nunavut.
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- Creator
- Nancy Wachowich ; in collaboration with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak Katsak
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st paperback ed
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001
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- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1282858238, 9780773522442, 9786612858239, 0773568018, 0773518878, 0773522441
- OCLC
- ocn929121568, ocm46987811
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-295) and index.
- English
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction: The Life History Project; PART ONE: APPHIA AGALAKTI AWA; PART TWO: RHODA KAUKJAK KATSAK; PART THREE: SANDRA PIKUJAK KATSAK; Postscript; Note about Spelling; List of People Mentioned in the Stories; Significant Dates in Eastern High Arctic and Awa Family History; An Overview of Iglulingmiut and Mittimatalingmiut Culture and History; List of Stories; Suggested Readings; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 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 UsThe Old Culture: Stories Since a Long, Long Time Ago; An Elder in the Settlement: There Is No Ending to the Stories of My Life; 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; 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-DanceReflections on the Future: Acting Inuit or Acting Like Qallunaat; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W