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Noah Piugattuk was a skilled storyteller. He also was patient with the youth and took the time to understand the younger generation.

In 1992, Zacharias Kunuk wanted to know more about Ayaya songs. He found out that the songs are riddles, because in Inuit culture they cannot say elder's names or direct animal names. Instead of saying "polar bear", they would say "the big white animal".

People would call the phone ‘Radio Latin America’, because the woman running it had a strong Spanish accent.

A planner comes and makes a plan of Igloolik like a Southern town. Then he moved some of the houses which had been built in a chaotic manner, and moved them onto the streets he had drawn.