Igloolik Area

One time Noah Piugattuk caught a lot of caribou, and he did not know what to do with all of it. He made an Ayaya song out of the experience.

Noah's first wife Tatigaq dies. He takes for a wife a woman who is starving because her husband is not taking good care of her. Her name is also Tatigaq.

When Noah Piugattuk was getting very good at hunting with a bow and arrow, rifles arrived. He then learned to hunt with a rifle and made his own bullets.

The Priest and the RCMP came to tell Noah's family that they needed to forget shamanism and their traditions, and convert to Christianity.

Michelline Ammaq tells the story of when Noah was young, the ice broke up and he and his sister and her baby were stuck on the floating ice. He saved them by walking on the thin, newly formed ice.

When Noah was young and had a nose bleed they will let a puppy lick his nose, so that he will have good luck with polar bears.