Peter Peetooloot
Date of Birth:August 1st, 1936
Place Born:Kingailak
Parents: Mother ~ Atijuqraq
Father ~ Inukpaluk
I was born at Kingailak down there at the island. Where they hunt whales.
My mother is Atjuqraq and my father is Inukpaluk, that is what they use to call him.
Netsilik River
Because it was never my land I don't know it that well, but I used to go to the river a few times when I was a child.
I've heard that the river had cache at one time, but this Tunnik that just had her baby went in the water and that is why the river is the way it is. That is when they could not use haputs any more.
Now today we can use boats in the river and there is no way to put haput any more. There use to be a haput there but not any more. It flooded and now it is always like that. The seals are always going up the river and sometimes the seal would spend the winter there, which is why it is called Netsilik.
Kiveok and the Bear
There was a bear that always got the meat that was cached for the winter. Kiveok wanted to be buried so that the bear would think he was meat.
When he was buried the bear started to dig him out.
Stories of Fighting
The Inuit before us were not very good, they were very bad. Still today there are people who don't like other people but they are much better inuit now that there are laws. They don't kill each other any more. I've heard that the Inuit from long ago killed each other without hesitation. That's how they were. That is how I've heard it. Men in those days used to hit each other by the head to fight for women.
I've heard stories about people who used to make war or that would kill other people. Some of the names were Kujaqasak and Pujatak. When Pujatak and family were waiting at their camp and fishing by a narrow part of the river someone, I forget their name, used a bow and arrow and hit him and that is when he went home with wounds. I think it is Kujaqaksaqa relative, but I'm not sure.