Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English

A Healing Chant

A Letter of Complaint, 1922

Tulugajuak (Author)

A Magic Prayer

Aua (Author)

A Matter of Life and Death

Smiler (Author)

A Mother's Lament

Uvlunuaq (Author)

A Sea Chant

Itireitok (Author)

A Song of Derision

Orpingalik (Author)

A Walrus Hunt

Aua (Author)

A Whaling Chant

Abraham's Diary

Abraham's Letter to Brother Elsner, 1881

Ada Blackjack Johnson's Diary

Amagoalik's Closing Remarks 1984

Amagoalik (Author)

An Incantation for Good Weather

An Old Dance Song

Tûglik (Author)

Attuiock's Impressions of London, 1772

Atuat's Grim Tale of Cannibalism

Aua: The Soul

Aula's Response, 1776

Blood Thirsty Enemies

Utatnaq (Author)

C.D. Howe

d'Argencourt (Author)

Caribou Magic

Orpingalik (Author)

Christian Testimony: Jonathan / Peter/ Simeon

Cold and Mosquitoes

Ivaluartjuk (Author)

Come to Our Place Since You Got a Seal

Quissa (Author)

Courtship and Marriage

Ashoona (Author)

Creation

Damn Those Invaders

Ipellie (Author)

Dead Man's Song

Netsit (Author)

Dorothy: Old Woman's Song

Dorothy (Author)

Ecstasy

Uvavnuk (Author)

Eketcheak and Wife's Responses to Captain George Cartwright's Proposal, 1786

Equality before the Honey Bucket

Nungak (Author)

Everybody Likes the Inuit

Cournoyea (Author)

First Meeting, 1818

Frobisher Bay Childhood

Ipellie (Author)

From Her Life Story

Tiktalik (Author)

Hans Hendrik's Memoirs (an extract)

How Aua Became a Shaman

How Igjugârjuk Acquired His Shamanic Powers

Hudson's Bay Company

I Fought to Keep My Hair

Flaherty (Author)

I See Your Face

Issaluk (Author)

I Want to Learn Syllabics

Kalluak (Author)

In the Days of the Whalers

Arnaujaq (Author)

Inukjuak: Making Ready for Winter

Smiler (Author)

Inuluapik's Letter to Mr. Hogarth, 1840

Ipirvik and Taqulittuq

Ipirvik's Reactions 1875

Ipirvik's Testimony to the New York Herald, 1873