Peter Totalik
August 15th, 2004Today we were looking for different kinds of bones made out of tools like a harpoon head and they carved the bone with a rock called chert. And different kinds of bones like caribou bones, seal bone and they used parts of the seal skin for rope. They used a seal shoulder blade for cooking. We saw a skull and part of a leg of a human. And snow goggles for the winter. And Inukshuks - about seven of them.
August 16th, 2004Today we went up a hill and didn’t find much but we saw a cache with a caribou on the side of the cache. While we were looking for more things to find we saw chert and it seem used up for carving bones to make something. And in the afternoon we went to a place where it’s closer to where we’re camping but we didn’t see much only 2 tent rings and a cache. So we didn’t see much that afternoon. So we decided to go back to our camping site and called it a day.
August 17th, 2004Today we went on the other side of the river and saw a tunuk jaw and leg. After lunch we went to the thunder house and it was crashed down by a fox because rocks were on top of the fox. Inuit saw a shaman use to be where the thunder house and I left a lighter and after we got back to our camp 5 of us started…say warn you touch a human bone you get bad luck or you lose something and I lost my paper that I wrote today. And Airaicia (Ericka) lost her camera and Ben lost his necklace.
August 18th, 2004Today we went to Netsilik river and tipitip and liaruk and we found a skull of a human. We saw inukshuks and they were made by Peter Kihinniks’s father and we heard a short story about them saying white people tried to build something but Peters father told them to get off his land because he didn’t want the land to get ruined.
August 20th, 2004Today we met with the Elders and they told a story and they talked about the thunder house and the elders said it was built before they were born. The elder said there’s a skull close by the thunder house and it belong to my great great great grandfather and where ever the skull faces there’s good hunting. And Ben got a seal when it was going up the river. After it got cut all the elders got a piece of the seal.
August 21st, 2004Today we went up the river and we found caches, tent ring and a grave about my size. After that we went up the river a bit more into the lake towards the mountains and Ben and I were making a fire on top of the mountain. After that we went to the point on the left of the mountain and saw a camp and two caribous. Then Ben and I went on top of the mountain and made another fire. After that we went back to the camp.