Emily Bing is happy to meet Matt Martinez, the boy who walks up her front walk to say hello soon after she and her family move into her Great-Aunt Miranda’s old house. Matt wants to know if the house is haunted, which it isn’t, but it does contain an odd little room at the top [...]
When Allashua announces that she is going out to play hide and seek with her friends, her mother warns her not to go too far away because an Ijiraq might hide her and, that if an Ijiraq hides her, no one will ever be able to find her again. Allashua goes to play hid [...]
When Kataujaq was small, she loved her mother. She loved sniffing her, because that is the way that the Inuit kiss, and hugging her. In the spring, she loved holding onto her mother while they travelled across the melting sea ice in a canoe tied to the dogsled, slipping precariously from ice to [...]
Every winter, the people of Ungava Bay collect mussels by walking on the bottom of the sea. This is the story of a young girl’s very first time climbing down onto the sea bed alone.
After cutting a hole through the sea ice with her chisel, Eva lowers herself down into the hole with her [...]
Children in the Primary grades have listened to the story of Tiktala, the young Inuit girl who dreams of being a soapstone carver so that she can become famous and admired and wealthy, but who, after months spent living in the body of a harp seal, discovers a new and vital artistic and spiritual purpose [...]
“They are here,” states Tuk’s grandfather, as he pauses in his work. The Inuit elder has dreamed of the arrival of a great umiak, a boat so large that it could hold many families, one that is made entirely of wood. Out in the bay, now becoming navigable with the arrival of spring, [...]
When Allashua announces to her parents that she is going to go fishing on the sea ice, they tell her that the Qallupilliut come up from their homes at the bottom of the sea and take children who go out onto the sea ice without their parents. They tell her to go ice fishing on [...]
Five year-old Kitaq awakens early, and eagerly awaits the arrival of Apa, his grandfather. He hopes that today Apa will take him fishing in the ice. When Apa comes, the young boy assures his grandfather that he is big enough to walk all the way to the fishing holes and all the way back, and [...]
A young girl named Tiktala wants to become a soapstone carver so that she can become rich and famous, but is told by a village elder that she must go in search of a spirit helper. Transformed into a harp seal, she meets Tulimak, a seal who hates humans, who has been chosen to help [...]
Set in the late 1950s in the community of Repulse Bay, Arctic Stories recounts three tales about Agatha, a young Inuit girl who lives on the cusp of change in the North. While her parents have lived a largely traditional Inuit lifestyle, Agatha experiences the changes that creeping governmental oversight bring.
In Agatha and the Ugly [...]
