Nuqallak character outline

My name is Nuqallak, and I am the son of Umik. When I was 20 years old, I worked on the whaling schooner of Captain George C. Comer, along with Apak, who was my first sweetheart. Apak and I almost married when she was a teenager, but Aua, her father, didn't approve and kicked me out of camp. Some time after that, I guided two mapping expeditions and worked with the Newfoundland trader Robert Janes, who began acting crazy and threatened to kill me. He was not in his right mind, and the elders decided he was dangerous to everyone, so they told me to shoot him. It may be that the white man's family will want to revenge him like any real person, but if it happens, it happens. I won't back down from anyone.