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Elder - Evie Battey

I have noticed the difference in how relationships between men and women are today. In the subject of finding a partner or in marriage. It is so different than in the past.



Elder - Evie Battey

As a child, it used to be so tempting to eat when you were visiting and the people you were visiting were cooking meat. I would wait and wait hoping to be lucky enough to be fed.



Elder - Evie Battey

When we were children we were forbidden from listening to the stories that were told by our parents and Elders.



Elder - Mar Battey

When we were young, my friend Elisapee and I were gone out on the land to pick berries. We brought a small dog with us who followed us all day.



Elder - Akeesuk Joamie - 2

This is how Inuit lived in the past before Southerners came to up and started to take over everything. Inuit had huge respect for their Elders and people who were older.



Elder - Akeesuk Joamie

“Once we started to build a road to, which is now called Apex outside of Iqaluit. There was only one family who was living there. Simonie Michael and his wife.



Elder - Theresa Mucktar

We should never take animals for granted or to ever make fun of them even if they are as small as a bug. You must never frighten them on purpose to make fun of them.



Elisapee Ootoovak

Traditional stories are long. We learn from these stories through the trials and tribulations of the characters in the stories.



Elder - Sivugat Palluq - 2

We were often told not to do certain things when we were children. From what I remember they used to tell us things like, not to steal or behave like a criminal.



Elder - Sivugat Palluq

Wisdom is passed down to us through child rearing. Wisdom comes through the sayings of our Elders. We are told to follow certain things as we are growing up.



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