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Jenny Vestey Vernon is a researcher who lived in Igloolik in the late 1960's and studied Inuit settlment patterns. She notes that women did not have easy lives, and many of them needed medical attention. When they got older, a lot of them moved to town to be nearer the Nursing Station.

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.

Noah and his first and second wife have many kids that do not survive. Eventually their Maliki is born, who lives now in Repulse Bay.

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.

When Noah was a baby, his mother would pretend to make him walk through a window made out of intestines, so that he will become good walking on thin ice. They also tied a wolf tendon onto his kamiks to make him a good runner.