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Over 100 years ago, an old man in northern Greenland told a story. It was a tale about white men, strangers to the land of the Inuit, and about the Inuit perception of these newcomers.
The story began with the story-teller recounting the legend of the origin of the qallunaat – the white men – who...
Mary Edmunds grew up in isolation at Whale River in Ungava Bay, the daughter of Job Edmunds, the Hudson’s Bay Co. post manager, and his wife Clara. Her grandfather, William Edmunds, had come from Scotland in the early to mid 1800s and set about the precarious life of a settler on the Labrador...
Sam Ford will figure large in a story I will write soon about an Inuktitut publication, so I have decided to introduce this interesting man first in a separate article.
Ford is a common surname in Labrador, and in some parts of Nunavut. The Fords of today are descendants of a family from...
A group of children played on the beach in northern Greenland in the land of the Inughuit. It was late summer, over a hundred years ago, and the sun circled low on the horizon. The timeless days of a far northern summer were drawing shorter.
Suddenly one of the children looked out to sea, then...
1903. Knud Rasmussen was experiencing his first taste of life in the far north of Greenland, a winter adventure that would change his life and draw him back to the Inughuit — the Polar Eskimos — time and time again.
One fall day, on his way back to the hut that expedition members had built and in...
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