lat_69.41

Louis Uttak recalls the smell of paint from the first four wooden houses built.

The first wooden buildings were built in the Avajja area. They smelled like paint even when you were on the beach.

Life became very different when schools and government arrived. People would lose their family allowance if they did not send their kids to school. For Louis Uttak – it was scary times.

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.