An Intimate Wilderness. Norman Hallendy

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       An Intimate Wilderness

      Inuksuliriji, I respect you highly, my friend Norman. You are a wise man, knowledgeable, and a man of honour. I am proud to be your friend! You are a friend to all Inuit. We thank you.

      Piita Irniq Commissioner of Nunavut 2000–2005.

      Osuitok and I at Kinngait (Cape Dorset), 1998.

      A PROMISE KEPT

       to

      Issuhungituk Qiatsuq Pootoogook, Oshutsiak Pudlat, Pudlo Pudlat, Quvianaqtuliak (Kov) Parr, Ikkuma Parr, Pauta Saila, Pitaloosie Saila, Eegyvudluk Pootoogook, Kananginak Pootoogook, Pudlat Pootoogook, Paulassie Pootoogook, Joanassie Salamonie, Kiawak Ashoona, Pitseolak Ashoona, Qaqqaq Ashoona, Majuriaq Ashoona, Kenojuak Ashevak, Pingwartuk, Ottochie Ottochie, Itidlouie Itidlouie, Kingmeata Itidlouie, Lukta Qiatsuq, Mannumi Davidee, Munamee Sarko, Kingwatsiuk, Simeonie Quppapik, and Osuitok Ipeelie

       “I’m telling you these things so that they are written. Write carefully, you are carrying the remains of our thoughts.”

      isumagijaujut kinguvaariinnuuqattaqtut Osuitok, 1998

      CONTENTS

       FOREWORD

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

       THE JOURNEY, 1958–2012

       INTRODUCTION

      The early years and a time of discovery.

       TOUGH GUYS AND GENTLE MEN

      Growing up in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood in Toronto and attending the Annual Prospectors’ Convention, a raucous gathering of prospectors and miners that inspired the author’s northern travels.

       CONTOURS OF THE LAND

      The Arctic, its vastness, beauty and a love of the land.

       FIRST IMPRESSIONS

      Arriving in Cape Dorset in 1958, when the Inuit are moving from traditional camps to settlements created by the Federal Government. Kananginak Pootoogook, son of powerful camp boss, talks about how living in a settlement affected him.

       A BIT OF SILVER PAPER

      Pingwartuk who was the first to take “the Inquisitive One” out on the land offers the formula for staying alive. The author travels at sea with Lukta Qiatsuq, who gets them out of a very serious situation by using the aluminum foil from a package of cigarettes.

       REFLECTIONS

      Simeonie Quppapik, who was photographed in 1923 by the legendary American filmmaker Robert Flaherty, talks about his lineage and offers sharp insights on the importance of words.

       BY THE LIGHT OF A SEAL OIL LAMP

      Kananginak Pootoogook relates his life story. He was born in a hut lit by a seal oil lamp in a camp reached by dogsled in winter and kayak in summer, at a time when it was believed that shamans could fly to the moon. Later in life, he watched men landing on the moon from the comfort of his home in Cape Dorset, which was heated by oil from Venezuela.

       THE SCENT OF SENSITIVITY

      The author learns the rules of proper behaviour and the proper way to ask questions of the elders.

       LEGENDS AND REALITIES

      How to separate myth and legend from reality.

       CENTRE OF THE WORLD

      The author gives a panoramic view of the remarkable locations all around him: the Foxe Channel, Southampton Island, Igloolik, the ancient camps of Nurrata and Nuvudjuak, Cape Dorset, and the Great Plain of the Koukdjuak.

       HUNGER, FEAR, AND MAGIC

      The author and Itulu Itidlouie set off for the small island of Sarko, and barely return alive.

       TABLE D’HÔTE

      What it’s like dining out on walrus, whale skin, eider duck eggs, ptarmigan, and caribou, while avoiding, fermented meat or fish, the eyes of animals, and fully formed chicks still in their eggs.

       NUNANNGUAIT, “IMITATIONS OF THE EARTH”

      The Inuit view of memory, maps and map making.

       HOW WE TOOK A GREAT WHALE

      An elder talks about traditional techniques for hunting whales.

       SILENT MESSENGERS

      Understanding the complex meanings of inuksuit, the human made stone figures and markers placed on the Arctic landscape.

       AN INUKSUK UNIVERSE

      A meditation on the cycle of life growing in the shadow of a single inuksuk.

       MORE REAL THAN YOU COULD IMAGINE

      An illusion of reality.

       THE STONE HUNTER

      Osutsiak Pudlat talks about how inuksuit were used as hunters’ aids.

       INUKSUGALAIT

      The

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