One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019) - full transcript
Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, 1961. Noah Piugattuk's nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dogteam, just as his ancestors did when he was born in 1900. When the white man known as Boss arrives in camp, what appears as a chance meeting soon opens up the prospect of momentous change.
If you have heard him
and have been taught by him
as the truth is in Jesus
turn away from
your old way of life
and be born again
We're out of sugar
Tea for Nattuq
there's no sugar in it
Daughter time to wake up
Here's your tea
Soon someone should go trade
for more Whiteman supplies
Can I come along too
Walrus head
Beautiful day
Our hand-wiper is old,
feathers are coming off
Daughter move back so
people can sit on the bed
This tea tastes good
even without sugar
Tea tastes a lot better
when we have iceberg water
Let's get going
we're going that way
Here are your extra mitts
I love you thank you
When you get to the iceberg
bring some ice back
Akpaliapik and I
want to come along
We'll make tea and help the boys
My goodness
you always get your way
We're too heavy
I used to do this
when I was younger
Let's stop here for tea
Japuti
Go chop some ice
Get the tea ready. Untie the box
Take off the box
we might stop here a while
Help your brother
Did you bring any food
– Yes we have fish
The iceberg is fresh water
let's have some tea
Some of my dogs are coming loose
While we have
this beautiful weather
let's have tea
Dogs are hungry
You're getting too much
Are we going to try
to finish all that
You can see anything from up top
Go take a look
Let me go up – Yes
I thought I swallowed a bone
Frozen fish and fish bones
feel the same
Don't let the dogs escape
The land looks close,
weather is so clear
It won't last forever
I wish it was always like this
Not much luck with seals lately
Yes not a lot
Not many seal holes around here
I'm really hungry – Me too
I see something but
I don't know what it is
I can't identify it
but it's over there
Coming from Sioraq
See anything
He did with the scope
What is it
– He couldn't recognize it
It's coming from Sioraq
We'll scope it again
What's up
They saw a dogteam
coming from Sioraq
It's hard to see with bare eyes
It must be far because
the weather is clear
Eat up we'll be
traveling again soon
Where's my tea
I told him to turn
down the stove
with a dogteam coming
Let's drink our tea with them
It will taste better
if they have sugar
Tea is good even without sugar
They say tea is food
It's not soup
but some people
still call it food
I need to fill my pipe
it's almost empty
My dear pipe
You can even speak
a little English now
They say some day we'll
all be speaking English
You bet
At least it's a
beautiful day now
Who do you think is coming
Maybe Qatturainuq's dogteam
Do you like Qatturainuq
Do you think about him
I don't know
When did you last see him
When I went to the settlement
maybe at Christmas time
You think he has a cute bum
I never thought about that
Maybe they missed their trail
Someone is running
Maybe Qatturainuk
It's my Grandmother
Of course
It's our Grandmother
I recognize him now
It's going to be great
Finally I'll get to
fill up my pipe
I'm excited now
It's a happy day
A Whiteman is with them
A Whiteman
I wonder what he wants
I'll have some sugar in my tea
My dear Grandmother
My dear Grandchild
Good afternoon
What a surprise
He's going to shake your hand
Oh no
I knew it
My goodness what a grip
Traveling from Sioraq
coming this way you're
the first people we met
Really nobody hunting
I'm following with him
so people can understand
what he says
What's he doing here
I just follow with him
Qatturainuk drives his dogteam
This guy is visiting around
your Identity Numbers
he's asking about
your Identity Numbers
Really
Do you have tobacco
I want to smoke
My pipe is empty
That's wonderful
Yes we camped at Sioraq
You didn't meet anybody
Yes you're the first
hunters we saw today
The wind shifted
coming from south now
You can untie our box
and bring out all the goodies
He welcomes us to eat
get some food
Go untie our box
and bring out all the food
Oh you brought caribou
that's wonderful
I'm craving for caribou
Drink some tea have a biscuit
Tell them to eat
whatever they want
Boss wants you to eat
as much as you want
Thank you
The wind calmed down
when we met you
Maybe a blizzard coming
This is great
Daughter
Get over here
What are you thinking
We Anglicans are different
from the Catholics
Son did you eat some biscuits
Kids will have treats
My tea cooled off
weather is getting colder
Maybe the wind is
coming towards us
This one, is he not able
to speak Inuktitut?
He's learning
from the Catholic Priest
He still can't speak Inuktitut
Maybe he's a slow learner
I work with him every day
He has no clue how to speak
Maybe he's not
trying hard enough
He's learning from the Priest
From the Priest
That's not good
There she goes again
What's happening with them
Stay here with your own people
Let's get over to the sled
and we can have a meeting
What does he want
What's this meeting about
It's about your children
He's going to camps
telling people
everybody has to move
into the settlement
What does he want from us
What's he doing around here
I'm just a translator
I follow him wherever he goes
What are you talking about?
I'm me translating you
with Qatturainuk
I told them me translator
You know why I'm here?
What did he say?
Do you know why he's here?
You just told me
Since he noticed you
he recognized it
He really expects us
to move to the settlement?
Piugattuk
His family you want them move
to Igloolik?
Canadian law
that you have to
live in the settlement
to collect your Family Allowance
You'll get money for
your children every month
Your kids have to attend school
And your children
have to learn from them
You have a wooden house
with a hot stove
You get a wood house
with a heater
With your E-5 Number
you just go doctor
and doctor help you
Your Identity Number
with your Identity Number
you can move to the settlement
But I understand
that you love this land out here
He understands it's a
beautiful land around here
and you love your land
but the school children
have to go to school
Daughter
Get over here
Tell him
Children have to go
to school tell him
Children have to go to school
you have to move
Can you
be separated from
the kids all the time
That's our challenge
not to be isolated
from the family
You won't want to be
all alone in your camp
when your children move
into the settlement
Don't say yes
This is our hunting area
it's why we are living here
That's right don't agree
I want to keep hunting around here
Plenty of animals around here
What did they say
It's a great hunting
hunting hunting place here
You're going
to hunt seals today
Yes we're hunting seals
but we haven't seen any
No seals yet
What does he say
How do you understand
this Whiteman
They're going hunting
and we meet here they're hunting
You say children get money
we get a house
we learn your ways
What will our children do
if they move there
If they move where
there's nothing to do
If the family moves there
you said there's heat
monthly money
and school
what is the
grandkids
gonna do there
With school
they're educated
to work
study for getting work
so they can earn their own money
for their own living
so they can be free to
choose what they want to do
Over there if they move
they will learn,
get government jobs
to get money
to buy things when they grow up
When they get money
what will they use it for
What is money to us
If the kids
getting money
what are they doing for it
They're not supposed to
earn money at a certain age
its later on but you
continue what you're doing
you live in the settlement
you can earn money from
traveling around with people
or selling caribou
you are collecting money
for everybody and you
are the one
who's giving out
money for everybody
we can continue with
that that's a good plan
but you are the boss
So you can move
into the settlement
and help us help everybody
your family members
everybody to keep that control
that you still have that control
and you decide
where the money should go
still the same
What can I do
it's the government rules
we have to find a
way to deal with this heh
You can earn money when
you move to the settlement
taking people out by dogteam
You can sell meat that you hunt
and take Whitemen
around on the land
That way you can save your money
until you want to use it
to buy something
Money
Where is he going
I wonder what is money – Me too
He keeps talking about money
I wonder what he wants
We don't know
Do you want to worry your mother
That might be a gun on his belt
You can't ever marry a Catholic
Don't you love your mother
Stay with us
Are you guys
learning about money
I heard about it but
I don't understand it
Money
Maybe when you don't work
they give you a carved face
What is going on
Good
Good
Well I'm happy to hear that
Tell him I'm happy
He's happy now
Boss is happy now
Me too I'm happy now
Let's be happy
So you want to move
into the settlement yes
Don't say yes
He's trying to talk you into it
Will you move to the settlement
What would he do if I told
him to move to my land
If you lived there
would you say yes
You want him to live in Igloolik
he's asking if he asked you
would you yes
would you say yes
Right now
we have a big problem
all over the world
I cannot focus on what
I want to do any more
I have to make sure
to make safety-ness now
because of the damn war
I cannot choose any more
where I'm going to stay
with my family
We became huge
Canada became huge
big responsibility
many people around
the world are dead
killed slaughtered
I don't want to live like that
Yes out here is peaceful
Can you translate
what he's saying
He's talking for a long time
Out in the world
people are being killed
It's not about one family
The settlement
he wants to know
he's going around to the
camps telling people
to move to the settlement
We have to stick together
stick together
Now he wants people
all together in the settlement
and that's how
the government of Canada
have chosen to do it
to help each other all Eskimos
all Canadians in one
Inuit are in one place
people help each other
I miss my family
when I go around
to save others' lives
He's going to all the camps
He's homesick for his wife
and children
He checks Identity Numbers to
move people to the settlement
I have to hunt people
not animals
criminals boom I don't like that
If I could hunt animals good
Times change
What should we do
Tell him
He hunts Inuit
he doesn't hunt animals
when he's hunting Inuit
following government orders
people are killing each other
fighting everywhere
that's why government
wants people to move
all in one place
This is nonsense
What kind of human being is he
how can people act like that
Someone is teaching him
Inuktitut doesn't have words for it
What are you talking about
Tell him this
He's from Canada
Canada will take care of him
I'm from Kapuivik
Go live in Canada
he has home over there
That is not your home
Your home
is in the settlement
do you understand
He says this is not your home
He says the settlement
is your home
That's the law
Kapuivik is my home
my land
yours is Canada
Kapuivik is his home
You
Canada your home
I have been disappointed
by the white man
Tell him that
He's saying
You you people
he not much like
I once took a Whiteman
by dogteam
from Kapuivik all the way
to where Netsilik people live
He went to
Pelly Bay near Pelly Bay
he brought
a Whiteman
from Kapuivik to Pelly Bay
and all the way back
He also came back
Down there on the ice
polar bears were everywhere
The ice on the way
Polar bears
huge polar bears tons
I was impressed by the
Whiteman and I believed in him
When we approached polar bears
he took out his camera
as his weapon
When he finds polar bear
his passenger his passenger
took out camera
and shooted for camera
We were happy when
we saw polar bears
They both happy
when they saw polar bear
Our land was not Canada
we had no rules to follow
we hunted anytime we wanted
The government
didn't say anything
about the law
they could hunt
any time they want
One time we approached a bear
he wanted to take a picture
They approach a big bear
and he wants to
take a shot again
I told him go closer
to get a good picture
He told him
closer closer
take camera yourself
The bear was coming towards us
that Whiteman spoke Inuktitut
a little not like this one
he starts shouting
he ran back and
handed the camera to me
He started walking to polar bear
he could speak
Inuktitut a little
the polar bear was coming
he's shouting running back
he gave the camera to him
so he can get the shot
When he gave it he told me
go closer to take a picture
As the guy gave
the camera to him
he said closer take a picture
That Whiteman
was my Anglican priest
Person the guy was a priest
I didn't say anything
but I understood
he thought his life
was more important
than my own life
He saw the guy that
he wasn't more important
than the Whiteman
When we finally arrived
where we were going
he started preaching to Inuit
when he went to Pelly Bay
priest started teaching
We traveled all the way
back by dogteam
a whole month to get back
He had to go back home
he's made it
for a full month on the way back
We saw plenty of polar bears
but after that camera time
now when he saw polar bears
he stayed on the sled
to him now
polar bears were like wolves
He's coming home the priest
when he saw polar bear
the polar bear seemed to be wolf
he stayed in the qamutik since
When we returned here
I thought my payment
would be something special
He came back
He thought
he's gonna get something
When he gave me a payment
after one whole month
it was a bible
He finally came home
he got a bible
he thought he was getting more
but he got bible
When he handed me the bible
I thought of all the things he did
when the memories came back
I realized the Priest
does not love me
He came home
and he realized
that the priest
isn't important to him
Since that time Whitemen
it's hard for me to try
to please a Whiteman
Since that happened
he's been more of his homeland
he's staying in his land more
That's my story for him
does he want to hear any more
Story you asked that story
Thank you
He says thank you
for giving him a story
He's just thankful on the outside
because he is a Whiteman
Thank you
So now you got a bible
Now you have a bible
It's from a Whiteman
so I read it
Priest give him he reads
He reads now – Hmmm
That was the choice
Does he have a bible
Bible you got
I got a bible yes
He has one – Really
We all got a bible
Everyone has a bible
in the settlement
Of course they do
Let's have some tea
Bring it over
we want to drink tea
This meeting is taking all day
I'm thirsty for tea
– I'm getting tired
Do you want tea – Yes
That's Boss's cup
I've been hungry for a biscuit
Here you go Whiteman food
I wonder how long
these biscuits will last
I wonder what will
happen to this weather
Wind is picking up
it's getting cold
This biscuit tastes really good
It's been a while
It's getting colder maybe
let's get going soon
Wind is shifting
it could be south wind
What are you thinking
Whatever happens
that's what will happen
There's more tobacco
come refill your pipes
This tastes really good
Okay let's go back
to the meeting
He wants to ask again
He still has questions to ask
More meeting
– Yes he wants more meeting
More again
I want to go hunting
but he keeps talking
I'm making a mess here
I wonder what he wants
Here
Getting colder
I'll put up my hood
he'll talk a long time again
The wind is picking up
it's getting colder
I wait
Let's go get started
what more do you have to say
Any more
Just ask him again ask him again
He wants me to ask
he wants to ask you again
What
Ask him again
I already ask him
– But I didn't get any answer
Ask him
He wants me to ask you again
This is nonsense
What does he want to know
What
what
you gonna say
him – You know
I ask him when I get an answer
when he moves to the settlement
That's what you have
to ask him about
When are he moving
to the settlement
Ask him again
Ask him
When will you move
he wants me to ask you again
What will he do
if I don't answer
If he
if he has
no
Answer
what you what you gonna do
I'm just trying
to understand him
He's trying to understand you
Don't say yes
Let him tell me what is
wrong with the settlement
why are he not moving in
Why don't you want to move
to the settlement
I haven't said that
I just haven't answered
Don't listen to this
you kids stay away
Mind your business over there
His home
is over there
and he
he doesn't want to move
I understand tell me
what we can do better
in the settlement
what is wrong
with the settlement
Tell me about he wants tell
let him tell me
about his experience
I want to help him
I want to understand him
He wants me to ask you again
How you live out here
is it useful or useless
It is useful
that's why we are alive
It's
It's
useful
and he lives
till now he's alive
the land
here
it's
their home
He's just trying
to talk us into it
I have no answer to his question
The story I told
about the Whiteman on the ice
I'm not impressed
with this one either
I have nothing more to say
He's
The story he told you
he
Don't like
Priest
like
you guy you
All white men is not the same
Whitemen the way they act
he says he's different
Imagine how much worse
this man would be
if we took him around
worse than the priest
who was bad enough
The priest
was
no good him no good
him he
doesn't like
you
I am here not as the priest
I am here to understand you
I need your help for that
He says he's not a priest
He's different from the rest
he's here to help you
He never helped me in my life
I won't help him either
You don't help
him
I offer you
a wooden house
with a hot stove
for only two dollars a month
for the rest of your life
You'll get a wooden house
with a stove that heats it
We have our sod house
over there all my life
If he gives us a new one
there we'll take it
Give him
a house
more good
Okay I'm happy to
hear this I'm happy
Now he's happy Boss is happy now
Finally he says he's happy
that's great
So when are he moving in
When are he coming
So when are you moving
into the settlement
How many times is he asking
the same question
What's wrong with him
I just listen and follow
whatever Boss says
What he says
I say to you
I already asked him
three times
I tell you again
you have to live
in the settlement
to get your Family Allowance
Every month they give you
money for your children
if you move to the settlement
Your kid your children
have attend school
and your children
learn from Whitemen
He says the same thing
over and over again
I already heard it enough
He
Already
us heard
he already heard us
what
what you
said earlier
So that's it that's all
Let's get going
– Are we going home
He said let's pack up
Yes let's go home
Everybody get packed up
we're going home
Work as a team hurry up
I'm trying to help you
I'm trying to understand
I'm doing my best
It makes me sad
if you don't give me an answer
We have to do our duty
for the government
and we have to
not to break the law
I don't understand you
What did he say
He's following government rules
He doesn't want to hear No
He wants to hear
if you say Yes or No
I will be cold
I will die out here
I take out my clothes
but I will still come
to get your children into school
it makes me sad
but I have to do this
He might be cold
if he takes off his clothes
He will come back
in the summertime
He'll come by boat
to pick up your children
He says he'll come back
for the children
Boss Thinks-for-Us
Really
You will think and I will
come back for an answer
I don't understand you
He wants you to think about it
Just tell me something
useful for me to do
when I come back
to the settlement
What is he saying
He wants to hear
what will be useful
when you move to the settlement
It's not going to happen
No use
But when you come in
I can make it better for you
if I understand you
When you arrive there
he will understand better
what you need
I don't need any help
I'm an Elder now without
any help from a Whiteman
I don't need help
He no need help
What is it that is good out here
What is it
What is so wonderful out here
I'm born here. It's perfect
He's born here
it's good him good for him
If this is his home
can he live home
without his children
He's saying the same
things again
There's a nurse over there
There's a little store there
When you get sick
the nurse will help you
that's what he said
only if you move
Brother don't say yes
Don't say yes
I have nothing to say to him
No
No answer
I don't think he understands
This is not a question anymore
You have to
At our place
in the settlement
if you move
he will understand you
better so he can help you
if you need help
he will know you
What do I need help for
I have everything I need here
I know I don't need help
I have lived here all my life
He
Live here he
no need help
he loves his home
Let's just leave him
He keeps saying the same thing
Let's just go home
This box is not tied up properly
Someone left a knife
on the ground
Dog harness are lying around
Tell him he can keep
all the food
the sugar jam and biscuits
You can keep the food
and the jam
Get moving. Let's go home
Tell him we're going home
We don't want to run over Boss
He's
home he's going home
he said
Are we leaving now
Yes we're going home
To a nice warm place
I am thinking
of the sea ice
I'm pulling on this leash
and I can't hang on
I am eager
to go to sea ice
I'm longing
and I can't hang on
It's impossible for me
to get to the sea ice
I've given up
and I can't hang on
I'm thinking
of sea ice
and have been taught by him
as the truth is in Jesus
turn away from
your old way of life
and be born again
We're out of sugar
Tea for Nattuq
there's no sugar in it
Daughter time to wake up
Here's your tea
Soon someone should go trade
for more Whiteman supplies
Can I come along too
Walrus head
Beautiful day
Our hand-wiper is old,
feathers are coming off
Daughter move back so
people can sit on the bed
This tea tastes good
even without sugar
Tea tastes a lot better
when we have iceberg water
Let's get going
we're going that way
Here are your extra mitts
I love you thank you
When you get to the iceberg
bring some ice back
Akpaliapik and I
want to come along
We'll make tea and help the boys
My goodness
you always get your way
We're too heavy
I used to do this
when I was younger
Let's stop here for tea
Japuti
Go chop some ice
Get the tea ready. Untie the box
Take off the box
we might stop here a while
Help your brother
Did you bring any food
– Yes we have fish
The iceberg is fresh water
let's have some tea
Some of my dogs are coming loose
While we have
this beautiful weather
let's have tea
Dogs are hungry
You're getting too much
Are we going to try
to finish all that
You can see anything from up top
Go take a look
Let me go up – Yes
I thought I swallowed a bone
Frozen fish and fish bones
feel the same
Don't let the dogs escape
The land looks close,
weather is so clear
It won't last forever
I wish it was always like this
Not much luck with seals lately
Yes not a lot
Not many seal holes around here
I'm really hungry – Me too
I see something but
I don't know what it is
I can't identify it
but it's over there
Coming from Sioraq
See anything
He did with the scope
What is it
– He couldn't recognize it
It's coming from Sioraq
We'll scope it again
What's up
They saw a dogteam
coming from Sioraq
It's hard to see with bare eyes
It must be far because
the weather is clear
Eat up we'll be
traveling again soon
Where's my tea
I told him to turn
down the stove
with a dogteam coming
Let's drink our tea with them
It will taste better
if they have sugar
Tea is good even without sugar
They say tea is food
It's not soup
but some people
still call it food
I need to fill my pipe
it's almost empty
My dear pipe
You can even speak
a little English now
They say some day we'll
all be speaking English
You bet
At least it's a
beautiful day now
Who do you think is coming
Maybe Qatturainuq's dogteam
Do you like Qatturainuq
Do you think about him
I don't know
When did you last see him
When I went to the settlement
maybe at Christmas time
You think he has a cute bum
I never thought about that
Maybe they missed their trail
Someone is running
Maybe Qatturainuk
It's my Grandmother
Of course
It's our Grandmother
I recognize him now
It's going to be great
Finally I'll get to
fill up my pipe
I'm excited now
It's a happy day
A Whiteman is with them
A Whiteman
I wonder what he wants
I'll have some sugar in my tea
My dear Grandmother
My dear Grandchild
Good afternoon
What a surprise
He's going to shake your hand
Oh no
I knew it
My goodness what a grip
Traveling from Sioraq
coming this way you're
the first people we met
Really nobody hunting
I'm following with him
so people can understand
what he says
What's he doing here
I just follow with him
Qatturainuk drives his dogteam
This guy is visiting around
your Identity Numbers
he's asking about
your Identity Numbers
Really
Do you have tobacco
I want to smoke
My pipe is empty
That's wonderful
Yes we camped at Sioraq
You didn't meet anybody
Yes you're the first
hunters we saw today
The wind shifted
coming from south now
You can untie our box
and bring out all the goodies
He welcomes us to eat
get some food
Go untie our box
and bring out all the food
Oh you brought caribou
that's wonderful
I'm craving for caribou
Drink some tea have a biscuit
Tell them to eat
whatever they want
Boss wants you to eat
as much as you want
Thank you
The wind calmed down
when we met you
Maybe a blizzard coming
This is great
Daughter
Get over here
What are you thinking
We Anglicans are different
from the Catholics
Son did you eat some biscuits
Kids will have treats
My tea cooled off
weather is getting colder
Maybe the wind is
coming towards us
This one, is he not able
to speak Inuktitut?
He's learning
from the Catholic Priest
He still can't speak Inuktitut
Maybe he's a slow learner
I work with him every day
He has no clue how to speak
Maybe he's not
trying hard enough
He's learning from the Priest
From the Priest
That's not good
There she goes again
What's happening with them
Stay here with your own people
Let's get over to the sled
and we can have a meeting
What does he want
What's this meeting about
It's about your children
He's going to camps
telling people
everybody has to move
into the settlement
What does he want from us
What's he doing around here
I'm just a translator
I follow him wherever he goes
What are you talking about?
I'm me translating you
with Qatturainuk
I told them me translator
You know why I'm here?
What did he say?
Do you know why he's here?
You just told me
Since he noticed you
he recognized it
He really expects us
to move to the settlement?
Piugattuk
His family you want them move
to Igloolik?
Canadian law
that you have to
live in the settlement
to collect your Family Allowance
You'll get money for
your children every month
Your kids have to attend school
And your children
have to learn from them
You have a wooden house
with a hot stove
You get a wood house
with a heater
With your E-5 Number
you just go doctor
and doctor help you
Your Identity Number
with your Identity Number
you can move to the settlement
But I understand
that you love this land out here
He understands it's a
beautiful land around here
and you love your land
but the school children
have to go to school
Daughter
Get over here
Tell him
Children have to go
to school tell him
Children have to go to school
you have to move
Can you
be separated from
the kids all the time
That's our challenge
not to be isolated
from the family
You won't want to be
all alone in your camp
when your children move
into the settlement
Don't say yes
This is our hunting area
it's why we are living here
That's right don't agree
I want to keep hunting around here
Plenty of animals around here
What did they say
It's a great hunting
hunting hunting place here
You're going
to hunt seals today
Yes we're hunting seals
but we haven't seen any
No seals yet
What does he say
How do you understand
this Whiteman
They're going hunting
and we meet here they're hunting
You say children get money
we get a house
we learn your ways
What will our children do
if they move there
If they move where
there's nothing to do
If the family moves there
you said there's heat
monthly money
and school
what is the
grandkids
gonna do there
With school
they're educated
to work
study for getting work
so they can earn their own money
for their own living
so they can be free to
choose what they want to do
Over there if they move
they will learn,
get government jobs
to get money
to buy things when they grow up
When they get money
what will they use it for
What is money to us
If the kids
getting money
what are they doing for it
They're not supposed to
earn money at a certain age
its later on but you
continue what you're doing
you live in the settlement
you can earn money from
traveling around with people
or selling caribou
you are collecting money
for everybody and you
are the one
who's giving out
money for everybody
we can continue with
that that's a good plan
but you are the boss
So you can move
into the settlement
and help us help everybody
your family members
everybody to keep that control
that you still have that control
and you decide
where the money should go
still the same
What can I do
it's the government rules
we have to find a
way to deal with this heh
You can earn money when
you move to the settlement
taking people out by dogteam
You can sell meat that you hunt
and take Whitemen
around on the land
That way you can save your money
until you want to use it
to buy something
Money
Where is he going
I wonder what is money – Me too
He keeps talking about money
I wonder what he wants
We don't know
Do you want to worry your mother
That might be a gun on his belt
You can't ever marry a Catholic
Don't you love your mother
Stay with us
Are you guys
learning about money
I heard about it but
I don't understand it
Money
Maybe when you don't work
they give you a carved face
What is going on
Good
Good
Well I'm happy to hear that
Tell him I'm happy
He's happy now
Boss is happy now
Me too I'm happy now
Let's be happy
So you want to move
into the settlement yes
Don't say yes
He's trying to talk you into it
Will you move to the settlement
What would he do if I told
him to move to my land
If you lived there
would you say yes
You want him to live in Igloolik
he's asking if he asked you
would you yes
would you say yes
Right now
we have a big problem
all over the world
I cannot focus on what
I want to do any more
I have to make sure
to make safety-ness now
because of the damn war
I cannot choose any more
where I'm going to stay
with my family
We became huge
Canada became huge
big responsibility
many people around
the world are dead
killed slaughtered
I don't want to live like that
Yes out here is peaceful
Can you translate
what he's saying
He's talking for a long time
Out in the world
people are being killed
It's not about one family
The settlement
he wants to know
he's going around to the
camps telling people
to move to the settlement
We have to stick together
stick together
Now he wants people
all together in the settlement
and that's how
the government of Canada
have chosen to do it
to help each other all Eskimos
all Canadians in one
Inuit are in one place
people help each other
I miss my family
when I go around
to save others' lives
He's going to all the camps
He's homesick for his wife
and children
He checks Identity Numbers to
move people to the settlement
I have to hunt people
not animals
criminals boom I don't like that
If I could hunt animals good
Times change
What should we do
Tell him
He hunts Inuit
he doesn't hunt animals
when he's hunting Inuit
following government orders
people are killing each other
fighting everywhere
that's why government
wants people to move
all in one place
This is nonsense
What kind of human being is he
how can people act like that
Someone is teaching him
Inuktitut doesn't have words for it
What are you talking about
Tell him this
He's from Canada
Canada will take care of him
I'm from Kapuivik
Go live in Canada
he has home over there
That is not your home
Your home
is in the settlement
do you understand
He says this is not your home
He says the settlement
is your home
That's the law
Kapuivik is my home
my land
yours is Canada
Kapuivik is his home
You
Canada your home
I have been disappointed
by the white man
Tell him that
He's saying
You you people
he not much like
I once took a Whiteman
by dogteam
from Kapuivik all the way
to where Netsilik people live
He went to
Pelly Bay near Pelly Bay
he brought
a Whiteman
from Kapuivik to Pelly Bay
and all the way back
He also came back
Down there on the ice
polar bears were everywhere
The ice on the way
Polar bears
huge polar bears tons
I was impressed by the
Whiteman and I believed in him
When we approached polar bears
he took out his camera
as his weapon
When he finds polar bear
his passenger his passenger
took out camera
and shooted for camera
We were happy when
we saw polar bears
They both happy
when they saw polar bear
Our land was not Canada
we had no rules to follow
we hunted anytime we wanted
The government
didn't say anything
about the law
they could hunt
any time they want
One time we approached a bear
he wanted to take a picture
They approach a big bear
and he wants to
take a shot again
I told him go closer
to get a good picture
He told him
closer closer
take camera yourself
The bear was coming towards us
that Whiteman spoke Inuktitut
a little not like this one
he starts shouting
he ran back and
handed the camera to me
He started walking to polar bear
he could speak
Inuktitut a little
the polar bear was coming
he's shouting running back
he gave the camera to him
so he can get the shot
When he gave it he told me
go closer to take a picture
As the guy gave
the camera to him
he said closer take a picture
That Whiteman
was my Anglican priest
Person the guy was a priest
I didn't say anything
but I understood
he thought his life
was more important
than my own life
He saw the guy that
he wasn't more important
than the Whiteman
When we finally arrived
where we were going
he started preaching to Inuit
when he went to Pelly Bay
priest started teaching
We traveled all the way
back by dogteam
a whole month to get back
He had to go back home
he's made it
for a full month on the way back
We saw plenty of polar bears
but after that camera time
now when he saw polar bears
he stayed on the sled
to him now
polar bears were like wolves
He's coming home the priest
when he saw polar bear
the polar bear seemed to be wolf
he stayed in the qamutik since
When we returned here
I thought my payment
would be something special
He came back
He thought
he's gonna get something
When he gave me a payment
after one whole month
it was a bible
He finally came home
he got a bible
he thought he was getting more
but he got bible
When he handed me the bible
I thought of all the things he did
when the memories came back
I realized the Priest
does not love me
He came home
and he realized
that the priest
isn't important to him
Since that time Whitemen
it's hard for me to try
to please a Whiteman
Since that happened
he's been more of his homeland
he's staying in his land more
That's my story for him
does he want to hear any more
Story you asked that story
Thank you
He says thank you
for giving him a story
He's just thankful on the outside
because he is a Whiteman
Thank you
So now you got a bible
Now you have a bible
It's from a Whiteman
so I read it
Priest give him he reads
He reads now – Hmmm
That was the choice
Does he have a bible
Bible you got
I got a bible yes
He has one – Really
We all got a bible
Everyone has a bible
in the settlement
Of course they do
Let's have some tea
Bring it over
we want to drink tea
This meeting is taking all day
I'm thirsty for tea
– I'm getting tired
Do you want tea – Yes
That's Boss's cup
I've been hungry for a biscuit
Here you go Whiteman food
I wonder how long
these biscuits will last
I wonder what will
happen to this weather
Wind is picking up
it's getting cold
This biscuit tastes really good
It's been a while
It's getting colder maybe
let's get going soon
Wind is shifting
it could be south wind
What are you thinking
Whatever happens
that's what will happen
There's more tobacco
come refill your pipes
This tastes really good
Okay let's go back
to the meeting
He wants to ask again
He still has questions to ask
More meeting
– Yes he wants more meeting
More again
I want to go hunting
but he keeps talking
I'm making a mess here
I wonder what he wants
Here
Getting colder
I'll put up my hood
he'll talk a long time again
The wind is picking up
it's getting colder
I wait
Let's go get started
what more do you have to say
Any more
Just ask him again ask him again
He wants me to ask
he wants to ask you again
What
Ask him again
I already ask him
– But I didn't get any answer
Ask him
He wants me to ask you again
This is nonsense
What does he want to know
What
what
you gonna say
him – You know
I ask him when I get an answer
when he moves to the settlement
That's what you have
to ask him about
When are he moving
to the settlement
Ask him again
Ask him
When will you move
he wants me to ask you again
What will he do
if I don't answer
If he
if he has
no
Answer
what you what you gonna do
I'm just trying
to understand him
He's trying to understand you
Don't say yes
Let him tell me what is
wrong with the settlement
why are he not moving in
Why don't you want to move
to the settlement
I haven't said that
I just haven't answered
Don't listen to this
you kids stay away
Mind your business over there
His home
is over there
and he
he doesn't want to move
I understand tell me
what we can do better
in the settlement
what is wrong
with the settlement
Tell me about he wants tell
let him tell me
about his experience
I want to help him
I want to understand him
He wants me to ask you again
How you live out here
is it useful or useless
It is useful
that's why we are alive
It's
It's
useful
and he lives
till now he's alive
the land
here
it's
their home
He's just trying
to talk us into it
I have no answer to his question
The story I told
about the Whiteman on the ice
I'm not impressed
with this one either
I have nothing more to say
He's
The story he told you
he
Don't like
Priest
like
you guy you
All white men is not the same
Whitemen the way they act
he says he's different
Imagine how much worse
this man would be
if we took him around
worse than the priest
who was bad enough
The priest
was
no good him no good
him he
doesn't like
you
I am here not as the priest
I am here to understand you
I need your help for that
He says he's not a priest
He's different from the rest
he's here to help you
He never helped me in my life
I won't help him either
You don't help
him
I offer you
a wooden house
with a hot stove
for only two dollars a month
for the rest of your life
You'll get a wooden house
with a stove that heats it
We have our sod house
over there all my life
If he gives us a new one
there we'll take it
Give him
a house
more good
Okay I'm happy to
hear this I'm happy
Now he's happy Boss is happy now
Finally he says he's happy
that's great
So when are he moving in
When are he coming
So when are you moving
into the settlement
How many times is he asking
the same question
What's wrong with him
I just listen and follow
whatever Boss says
What he says
I say to you
I already asked him
three times
I tell you again
you have to live
in the settlement
to get your Family Allowance
Every month they give you
money for your children
if you move to the settlement
Your kid your children
have attend school
and your children
learn from Whitemen
He says the same thing
over and over again
I already heard it enough
He
Already
us heard
he already heard us
what
what you
said earlier
So that's it that's all
Let's get going
– Are we going home
He said let's pack up
Yes let's go home
Everybody get packed up
we're going home
Work as a team hurry up
I'm trying to help you
I'm trying to understand
I'm doing my best
It makes me sad
if you don't give me an answer
We have to do our duty
for the government
and we have to
not to break the law
I don't understand you
What did he say
He's following government rules
He doesn't want to hear No
He wants to hear
if you say Yes or No
I will be cold
I will die out here
I take out my clothes
but I will still come
to get your children into school
it makes me sad
but I have to do this
He might be cold
if he takes off his clothes
He will come back
in the summertime
He'll come by boat
to pick up your children
He says he'll come back
for the children
Boss Thinks-for-Us
Really
You will think and I will
come back for an answer
I don't understand you
He wants you to think about it
Just tell me something
useful for me to do
when I come back
to the settlement
What is he saying
He wants to hear
what will be useful
when you move to the settlement
It's not going to happen
No use
But when you come in
I can make it better for you
if I understand you
When you arrive there
he will understand better
what you need
I don't need any help
I'm an Elder now without
any help from a Whiteman
I don't need help
He no need help
What is it that is good out here
What is it
What is so wonderful out here
I'm born here. It's perfect
He's born here
it's good him good for him
If this is his home
can he live home
without his children
He's saying the same
things again
There's a nurse over there
There's a little store there
When you get sick
the nurse will help you
that's what he said
only if you move
Brother don't say yes
Don't say yes
I have nothing to say to him
No
No answer
I don't think he understands
This is not a question anymore
You have to
At our place
in the settlement
if you move
he will understand you
better so he can help you
if you need help
he will know you
What do I need help for
I have everything I need here
I know I don't need help
I have lived here all my life
He
Live here he
no need help
he loves his home
Let's just leave him
He keeps saying the same thing
Let's just go home
This box is not tied up properly
Someone left a knife
on the ground
Dog harness are lying around
Tell him he can keep
all the food
the sugar jam and biscuits
You can keep the food
and the jam
Get moving. Let's go home
Tell him we're going home
We don't want to run over Boss
He's
home he's going home
he said
Are we leaving now
Yes we're going home
To a nice warm place
I am thinking
of the sea ice
I'm pulling on this leash
and I can't hang on
I am eager
to go to sea ice
I'm longing
and I can't hang on
It's impossible for me
to get to the sea ice
I've given up
and I can't hang on
I'm thinking
of sea ice