Walter Akpik
Utik
IHLC Tape Number: 00039

   

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Walter Akpik talks with Bill Schneider and Wendy Arundale about...
 
1) ...his memories of camps starting when he was about 10 years old.
Barrow\ Beechey Point\ travel - boats\ Apasuan\ Uuliktuq\ tents\ Caucasians\ Kuukpik River\ Pifu\ gathering|
 
2) ...his family's winter camps at Napaqsralik and McClure Island.
Napaqsralik\ family units\ Ikpik\ Aquvalaaq\ camps - winter\ hunting - whales\ McClure Island\ trapping - foxes|
 
3) ...sea ice and pressure build up he remembers from when he was young and how such ice conditions could threaten present day oil rigs.
McClure Island\ hunting - seals\ ice - conditions\ ice - pressure ridges\ natural resources - exploration\ oil - rigs|
 
4) ...Tigvabiaq, where he and his family and grandparents lived when he was a teenager.
Foggy Island\ Tigvabiaq\ grandparents\ Kisik\ sister\ travel - dog teams\ Savviubvik\ education - land use\ Utuan\ Takluksraq\ Silamiutchaq\ Silammiuq\ travel - boats|
 
5) ...good winter fishing spots and the types of fish found there. Also, how his grandparents earned enough money trapping to buy a boat.   [Part 2]
Siiqsinniq\ fishing - winter\ fish - grayling\ fish - seining\ Qaglubruaq\ Utuan\ fish - afmabuurat\ fish - afayuqaksraurat\ Savviubvik River\ trapping - foxes\ boats - purchase\ Captain Pederson\ Siakuk\ fish - frozen\ travel - packing\ education - subsistence\ grandparents\ Qatiqsiñaaq\ firearms|
 
6) ...first living in Atqasuk.
Barrow\ travel - boats\ boats - sails\ grandparents\ Atqasuk\ house - Atqasuk\ residence - Atqasuk\ wintering\ Aafaq\ Qufutchiq\ fishing\ Itqiuraq\ trapping\ caribou - lack of\ reindeer|
 
7) ...initial reindeer herding experience.
Akpik, Walter\ reindeer\ herders\ Barrow\ herding - summer\ Siñibaq\ Skull Cliff\ Isaubana\ reindeer - payment|
 
8) ...later experiences herding and traveling with reindeer.   [Part 2]   [Part 3]
reindeer - herding\ Kuugaabruk\ Naullaq (Naullani)\ Saixaq\ Sielak, Marjorie\ Sibvayuaq\ Uvyuaq\ Aluniq\ Aviffasuk\ Tatchim Isua\ reindeer - milking\ tea\ coffee\ reindeer - marking\ herding - companies\ herding - wages\ reindeer - draft\ Tikibluk\ coal\ dog teams|
 
9) ...a traveling experience with Tuniq.
Tuniq\ Akpik, Walter\ reindeer - herding\ Christmas\ Barrow\ travel\ Kumaktuyuq\ grazing\ tobacco|
 
10) ...Charlie Brower and the store in Barrow.   [Part 2]   [Part 3]
tobacco\ Brower, Charlie\ Brower, David\ goods\ payment - bullets\ credit\ flour\ payment - furs\ Iñupiaq - language|
 
11) ...travel after marriage.
Akpik, Walter\ travel\ residences - winter\ Uqpiksuum Kafia\ children\ work - wages\ hunting\ dog teams\ snowmachines|
 
12) ...suffering, shortages, and how life has changed.   [Part 2]   [Part 3]
money\ oil\ food - lack of\ weather - conditions\ game - lack of\ whaling\ ice - conditions\ Brower, Charlie\ Barrow\ Caucasians\ visitors\ travel - planes\ Iñupiat\ relations - Iñupiat and Caucasian\ tobacco\ Qatiksiñaaq|
 
13) ...some place identifications and name pronunciations.   [Part 2]   [Part 3]   [Part 4]
Kuugaruaq\ Meade River\ Kuuglugruaq\ Kuulugruaq\ Kullugruaq\ Itqiuraq\ Little Creek\ Uqpiksuu River\ Uqpiksuum Kafia\ Safmaliq\ Tupaabruk\ Qaagabvik\ fishing - camps\ activities - drilling\ Ikpikpagruaq\ Ipiqqiraq\ Imnaabuabruk\ house - sod\ bones\ Numniq\ Anaulibiaq\ Isigaurraabvik|