The Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Adventure

“We always had a special occasion called the Naittuqsliqtuq towards the end of summer where everyone gathered together to pick and choose the caribou skins they needed for the winter to make complete caribou outfits and generally celebrate the successful and enjoyable season. My parents would prepare everything for the event and lay out all the caribou skins, which had been caught over the summer, and every individual picked what they liked; even the people who never went hunting caribou got to pick. That was the meaning of the word ‘helping each other’”. - Nathan Qamaniq, Amitturmiut*

*SOURCE: Uqalurait, An Oral History of Nunavut. Compiled and edited by John Bennett and Susan Rowley (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004) 310.