Recherche dans la collection - Inupiatun : In the Manner of the Eskimo

BANFF TELEVISION FESTIVAL

1982-0291

Vidéo

1 of 1

1982

Cinetel Film Productions Ltd.

director, Peter Haynes; Harold Tichenor

Jacob Archie, son of Head Point Archie Erogaktoak, the Great Hunter, was born in a tent at King Point as the family was travelling from Alaska to Aklavik. Today, Jacob is a hunter and the best trapper in the Mackenzie Delta region. It is a very hard living, continually frustrated by the vicissitudes of the game and the weather, and by the ever-changing market for furs. But it is an honourable life, which has its roots in the age-old way of the Eskimo. Jacob says, "Old ways, new ways, makes no difference - always the animals are the same". Jacob and his wife, Elizabeth, are some of the last Inuit prepared to face the vast, unyielding land and the predatory weather to preserve tradition of which Inupiatin may be a final document. <54mn 52s>

English

Libre

V1 8307-0081

with permission of Banff Television Festival