Skip to content

Read e-book online People from Our Side: A Life Story with Photographs and Oral PDF

By Peter Pitseolak

ISBN-10: 0773509968

ISBN-13: 9780773509962

The textual content of individuals from Our aspect involves Peter Pitseolak's manuscript -- initially written in syllabics -- and a story drawn from interviews carried out by means of Dorothy Eber with assistance from younger Inuit interpreters. Peter Pitseolak realized the approach of examining and writing introduced through the missionaries and from an early age shaped the behavior of retaining a diary. He took his first picture for a white guy who used to be afraid to technique a polar endure and later, within the early Forties, got his personal digital camera and taught himself, with assistance from his spouse Aggeok, to advance movies in igloo, tent, and hut. His photographs capture, as no white photographer's might, the real caliber and aspect of Eskimo lifestyles within the final days of the camp approach. Sweeping from nomadic instances to the early Nineteen Seventies, Peter Pitseolak offers a frank and lively account of ways swap got here to Baffin Island. A realist who knew he was once delivering a social historical past of a vanishing lifestyle, his tale is a farewell to standard camp existence and to Seekooseelak -- the place the folk of Cape Dorset as soon as had their camps.

Show description

Read Online or Download People from Our Side: A Life Story with Photographs and Oral Biography PDF

Similar native american studies books

Get Indian Shakers: A Messianic Cult of the Pacific Northwest PDF

An intensive anthropological research of a special spiritual cult of the Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest. The e-book strains the Shaker cult’s improvement, its ceremonies, ritual components, faiths, and doctrine.

Read e-book online Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present PDF

Florida's Indians tells the tale of the local societies that experience lived in Florida for twelve millennia, from the early hunters on the finish of the Ice Age to the fashionable Seminole, Miccosukee, and Creek Indians. while the 1st Indians arrived in what's now Florida, they wrested their livelihood from a land some distance various from the fashionable geographical region, person who used to be cooler, drier, and virtually two times the scale.

Additional info for People from Our Side: A Life Story with Photographs and Oral Biography

Sample text

Nobody knew why; that was his way. Etidluie stayed in Seekooseelak because he liked it here. It's not the name of one camp or place - all around Cape Dorset, that's Seekooseelak. It means 'no ice'; there is no ice at break-up. Other places have a great deal. Seekooseelak used to have many more animals than the Lake Harbour area. Many walrus. And more polar bears. To me it's always been best. 29 Nuvoojuak people. Two pictures taken by Peter Pitseolak when his dog team crossed those of Nuvoojuak people on their way to better hunting.

He was often tested. But in all his long life there was only one time when he was half afraid. He had found an old whale on the ground and the foxes were eating from it. He set up his camp by the whale and all night long he was catching foxes. Then, although the whale was frozen, he saw it breathe - he saw it breathing twice. He was almost afraid then but he went to his igloo and walked around because he was nervous. " So he stayed on and was no longer afraid. Etidluie was a good man to anyone who came around.

Many walrus. And more polar bears. To me it's always been best. 29 Nuvoojuak people. Two pictures taken by Peter Pitseolak when his dog team crossed those of Nuvoojuak people on their way to better hunting. Top, right to left: Ragee, camp boss, his wife Staralaq, Akitee, her husband Reeluajuk. 30 My father used to say that when Etidluie came back from Arctic Quebec to Alenga it was as if they had been together for years. He had come home. He came from our side for sure. I do not know when Seekooseelak began to have people.

Download PDF sample

People from Our Side: A Life Story with Photographs and Oral Biography by Peter Pitseolak


by Joseph
4.5

Rated 4.27 of 5 – based on 42 votes