Long ago in Qulluraq, there was a kid. The kid’s name is Nuktuk. Nuktuk was out hunting

caribou; he was about 8-10 miles from home. Nuktuk was with Aukpaq, they both loved to go

out hunting together. They were out all day trying to find a herd of caribou, no luck. But they had

found a patch of Akpiks that were huge, so they sat down after a long day of trying to find

caribou. Later that night they returned home empty handed, this was there first time going out to

see if there were any caribou out there, this was about the time of the year the caribou gets a nice

layer of fat for the winter. Nuktuk went back home, but Aukpaq went to go see his grandparents.

Aukpaq’s grandma taught Aukpaq to learn the ways of hunting the land and to respect it.

Meanwhile Nuktuks family traveled elsewhere. Nuktuk was disowned and disliked for the way

he looked. And for that Aukpaqs family took Nuktuk as their own. So the next day passes by and

they both go to another place that caribou usually hang out. They still has no luck of seeing

any. So they went to Isuqtuk river to fish, they caught enough to feed the family. After they went

back home but no one was there. So they both went to go down the Meade River, and their

grandparents were there fishing to make some pivsik. So Aukpaq went down to go and help

them. While Nuktuk went to go take a nap. Nuktuk is still learning the ways of hunting. Aukpaq

didn’t like the way Nuktuk didn’t help out. So Aukpaq asked his grandparents why nuktuk helped

out or processed any food, and they won’t say anything to Nuktuk, the grandparents didn’t want

talk about it. Aukpaq got confused why they did want to talk about it. Aukpaq just shrugged it

off, Nuktuk went to go off to hunt. Aukpaq hurried and packed his hunting bag and went to

follow Nuktuk. Aukpaq hurried to catch up to him and aukpaq yelled to him. HEY WHERE

AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING. Nuktuk said I’m going to go learn how to go catch and process

my food. Aukpaq said why didn’t you come help process the fish down the river? Nuktuk just

shrugged it off. Aukpaq wanted to know what and why he wouldn’t help. Nuktuk just kept on

going, and they actually saw a herd of caribou. They hushed each other and quietly approached

the herd and they caught a caribou and Aukpaq showed Nuktuk how to process the catch.

Aukpaq eventually forgot about taking care of the fish and they both went back home with the

caribou they were happy to get their first caribou, and they cooked some soup and stored the rest

in the siguluk for the winter. They are going to use the skin to make a parka and the fish skin to

make it waterproof. Later on that evening, they all got together to clean the house to get the job

done quicker. The next day it started to snow but the snow didn’t stay. So they started to gather

the last of the berries they needed to pick and store them or make something with the berries so

they wouldn’t go to waste. Aukpaq went out to go set up traps to get arctic hares so they can use that

to make new mukluks for the winter. After they set traps they went to go catch more caribou for

the winter.

Winter and spring passes by and its now summer and they all went and migrated to

another part that they go to cause they follow the caribou and migrate with them. They would

travel between qulluruq and amisimaaq. And they have family stories with traveling between

both homes. When they travel they like to tell those stories. One of them is when when it was

blizzardy my great aapa and atatta was out hunting and a storm come in and it was completely

white out. My aapa was trying to remeber landmarks around the area with what he can see, but a

little creature came up to them and they only spoke inupiaq and they had a full blown

conversation in inupiaq ande the creature pointed them the right way towards home. What we

usually here from the stories is that they would take us and would eat us and share your body to

the rest of the tribe and having my aapa run into the little creature we were blessed to see them

again and to tell them this story. Thats one of the stories that we would tell during family time.

What we would do during our spare time is we would like to keep fit and we would like to do

some traditional games; namely alaskan high kick, one foot high kick, two foot high kick, kneel

jump, and so much more. Those games would help us hunt and tell us if they caught anything.

Aukpaq and nuktuk would always play and keep themselves entertained. Every now and then

they would go visit neighboring people but it would be a couple day trip to get to them. They

would have a feast and share there traditions together and teach each other things that would

benefit each other that would help them out with the way of living. They went to go visit one of

there neighboring people and there name is kigginagaluk’s. the kiggi-na-galuks lifestyle was

doing as good and the kippi’s want to come help them, because we help with people in need of

help. Only because we help out no matter what situation is happening. So they traveled to the

kigginagaluks to check on them to see how they were doing cause the last time they visited them

they were struggling with keeping and the way they hunted. So the kippi’s came over to help

them out as the do every year to help prep for the winter. Because the kippi’s know how to help

out and keep up with there own lifestyles. The kigginagaluks noticed a long time ago from when

they first met eachother is that the kippi’s is keeping something for Aukpaq. After a couple days

of helping out the kigginagaluks they traveled back home, but when they were traveling back

home; Aukpaq went to catch a swan and swans mate for life, thats what we believed in and when

you only catch one swan with out catching the partner is bud luck. Aukpaq only thought it was a

loner swan and he caught it to have food for the night. but little do they know that the

kigginagaluks saw that Aukpaq only caught one swan, so they casted a spell that prevents them

from gathering food. As a couple weeks pass by they had no luck with catching animals, the

berries didn’t grow, and they couldn’t catch any fish from any of the rivers nor lakes. So they knew

something was up to no good. But the kippi’s turned to the little creatures for help, but it took

them a while to find them. So they were running low on their food supplies. They were using all

the food that was stored in their siguluk, but as soon as they found the little creatures; they felt a

presence that was burdening the family. The little creatures told them in order to lift the curse

that has been casted on them is to figure out what in the family is burdening them, so they

thought the swan was the cause. So they backtracked to where they caught the swan and the

partner swan was still where it was. So they caught the swan. But another couple days passed by

They still couldn't catch anything. So the grandparents came together and relized that

keeping the truth from Aukpaq was the problem. So they found a right time to tell Aukpaq the

truth. But couldn’t tell him. Only because they know that it would break Aukpaqs heart and the

wayne would ssee life. But they had to tell him in the nicest way possible. But there is no nicest

way possible. So eventually they told aukpaq that Nuktuk was his older that passed away when

he was baby. And that Nuktuk is actually real. Aukpaq looked over to his right to only see that

nuktuk faded away. Only to relize that he had only been imagining nuktuk. And Aukpaq had

trouble processing the bad news. But only than the curse had been lifted and the berries began to

grow and animals started to migrate, fish was flowing throught the rivers again. After a couple

months before winter came, Aukpaq Had gotten over the bad news and Aukpaq Still thinks about

his older brother Nuktuk and that Nuktuk is his guardian angel that protects him. And that

Nuktuk will be there for Aukpaq throught his life. LATER ON IN LIFE Aukpaq Eventually

leaves qulluraq to start another family.

The end