si4>v6bsJ5(Unikkaaqtaujut)Sharing Stories
Sharing our stories of Inuit culture from the voices of elders and youth on our rich history, land, and people within our territory.
Stories
Leonie Sammurtok & Mary Nuvak – An Elders Story
David F. Pelly
She has been called “grandmother of Chesterfield Inlet.” Although her precise age is unknown, Leonie Sammurtok is either mother, grandmother, or great grandmother to more than half the people in this hamlet on the western coast of Hudson Bay. Chesterfield (Igluligaarjuk) is the oldest settlement in the Canadian Arctic, and Leonie Sammurtok has been here […]
Date Range
1880
1985
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