Born in 1948, Normee Ekoomiak lived in a snow house in the winter and in a tent made of animal skins during the summer months. With his family, he followed the animals, moving to the sea ice in the winter to hunt seal, to the river in the spring to fish for Arctic char, [...]
Shortly after the birth of his son, Wolverine, The-man-with-no-eyebrows visits Paaliaq to arrange a marriage between Wolverine and Paaliaq’s infant daughter, Breath. But Paaliaq, irritated by his daughter’s crying and The-man-with-no-eyebrows’ quiet amusement at his discomfort, bad-temperedly turns down the match and curses his baby son. When Wolverine reaches marriageable age, Paliaaq swears, [...]
When an elderly Inuit woman, who is frequently forced to rely upon her neighbours for food, finds a small orphaned bear cub, she adopts him as her son and names him Kunikdjuaq. The little bear shares the old woman’s meager meals, plays with the village children, and forms a deep and abiding attachment to [...]
When they return to their Inuit village from a fruitless day of hunting, Brother and Little Sister find all of its inhabitants gone. After weeks of no game, the village’s hunters have decided to move the community across the river, and the two orphans are overlooked. Though the children follow their people to [...]
My Arctic 1, 2, 3 is a counting book that celebrates the creatures of sea and land that inhabit the Arctic, the beauty of the tundra, and the Inuit who claim the region as their home. From polar bears on the hunt, to siksiks alert to the presence of Arctic foxes, to fishermen repairing a [...]
