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 ᓄᐊ ᐱᐅᒑᑦᑐᖅ ᐃᓅᔪᓐᓃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ 95ᓂᒃ ᐅᑭᐅᖃᖅᖢᓂᒃ 1995ᖑᑎᓪᓗᒍᑦ. ᖁᔭᓐᓇᒦᖅᐳᒍᑦ ᐃᓚᑯᓗᖏᓐᓂᑦ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᖅᑎᑦᑎᓯᒪᖕᒪᑎᒃ ᐅᓂᒃᑲᐅᓯᒃᑯᑦ. ᖁᔭᓕᓯᒪᖕᒥᔪᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᑯᓐᒐᒃᓴᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᓐᓂᑦ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᖅᑎᑦᑎᓯᒪᖕᒪᑎᒃ ᓄᐊ ᐱᐅᒑᑦᑑᓚᐅᖅᑑᑉ ᐊᔾᔨᙳᐊᖏᓐᓂᒃ.

Life became very different when schools and government arrived. People would lose their family allowance if they did not send their kids to school. For Louis Uttak – it was scary times.

Noah Piugattuk recounts the story of how he was born in the first igloo of the season at a place named Sarvaq.

Health complications with Noah Piugattuk's wife made them move to town.

Noah Piugattuk died in 1995 at the age of 95 years old. Thanks to the generosity of his family for sharing the stories of his life. And thanks to the IBC archive for providing Noah's interviews.

Zacharias Kunuk discusses the cultural clash between Christianity and his culture.

Noah Piugattuk started bringing back drum dancing and storytelling in his last years.
He said that, unlike what the church was teaching them, not everything was only good or only bad, and Inuit traditions could not be just bad.

Jenny Vestey Vernon is a researcher who lived in Igloolik in the late 1960's and studied Inuit settlment patterns. She notes that women did not have easy lives, and many of them needed medical attention. When they got older, a lot of them moved to town to be nearer the Nursing Station.