Research Catalog

Title

Saqiyuq : stories from the lives of three Inuit women / Nancy Wachowich in collaboration with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak Katsak.

Author

Wachowich, Nancy, 1966-

Publication

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999.

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Details

Description

viii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Apphia Awa, who was born in 1931, experienced the traditional life on the land while Rhoda Katsak, Apphia's daughter, was part of the transitional generation who were sent to government schools. In contrast to both, Sandra Katsak, Rhoda's daughter, has grown up in the settlement of Pond Inlet among the conveniences and tensions of contemporary northern communities - video games and coffee shops but also drugs and alcohol. Through the storytelling in Saqiyuq, Apphia, Rhoda, and Sandra explore the transformations that have taken place in the lives of the Inuit and chart the struggle of the Inuit to reclaim their traditional practices and integrate them into their lives."--Jacket

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 19

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 19.

Subject

• Awa, Apphia Agalakti, 1931-1996
• Katsak, Rhoda Kaukjak
• Katsak, Sandra Pikujak
• Awa, Apphia Agalakti, 1931-1996
• Katsak, Rhoda Kaukjak
• Katsak, Sandra Pikujak
• Awa, Apphia Agalakti
• Inuit women > Nunavut > Biography
• Inuit women > Nunavut > History
• Inuit women
• Soziale Situation
• Frau
• Femmes inuits > Canada > Nunavut (Canada) > Biographies
• Femmes inuits > Canada > Nunavut (Canada) > Histoire
• Nunavut > Biography
• Nunavut
• Pond Inlet Nunavut
• Eskimo

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• Biography
• History
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-295) and index.

Contents

• Apphia Agalakti Awa -- 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 Us -- The Old Culture: Stories Since a Long, Long Time Ago -- An Elder in the Settlement: There is No Ending to the Stories of My Life -- Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak -- 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 -- Sandra Pikujak Katsak -- 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-Dance -- Reflections on the Future: Acting Inuit or Acting Like a Qallunaat -- Significant Dates in Eastern High Arctic and Awa Family History -- An Overview of Iglulingmiut and Mittimatalingmiut Culture and History -- List of Stories.
• Maps [place names] xi-xii -- Glossary of Inuktitut terms 281-282.

ISBN

• 0773518878
• 9780773518872
• 0773522441
• 9780773522442

LCCN

2001615414

OCLC

• ocm42952625
• 42952625
• SCSB-929375

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library