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Cultural INUK Heritage 2017 2017 1926 James Bay Daphne Tooktoo NEWSLETTER Topic One My Sewing Heritage 2 3 Page 2 3 All about my sewing inheredance from teachers friends and family members especially from my maternal and paternal grandmother Daphne Tooktoo Sunset March 2017 1955 Winter 2017 First Edition Cultural Inuk Heritage by Daphne Tooktoo My Inuk Cultural heritage from my grandparents both of whom were born in 1926 at a campsite somewhere around my home town of Kuujjuaraapik My grandfather an Inuk from Nunavik married my grandmother a Cree from James Bay in Northern Quebec They had 10 children lost three a son and twin girls during the famine days in Nuna vik and adopted two grandchildren including me They lived the Inuit lifestyle instead of the Cree way but my grandmother always maintained her Cree cultural heritage in Topic Two Sewing 3 4 Page 3 4 All about growing up looking at my maternal grandmother s sewing abilities and her teachings in sewing Topic Three Fishing 5 6 Page 5 6 All about my mathernal grandfather s hunting abilities and his teaching my experiences and learnings about hunting cluding the traditional food and the clothing made differently but still beautifully My grandparents both spoke Inuit and Cree My grandmother incorporated a lot more of the Inuit ways in life than her actual Cree heritage Daphne Tooktoo Grandparents 1955
Daphne Tooktoo Basket I quite enjoyed my weekend outings before Daphne Tooktoo Beading Daphne Tooktoo Basket coming to Montreal for school I used to go out onto the land with my fishing buddy Parsa Kitishimik and other friends and family members I grew up visiting family friends who moved to another town Every summer throughout my Daphne Tooktoo Basket My sewing heritage childhood I visited them I went out camping with the family learned to pick goose eggs and My sewing abilities were partly inherited from my Inuit ancestors They were its down Goose down is usually used to make passed on from my grandparents to me and someday I hope to pass them on to parka and snow pants I learned to pick and my children and grandchildren Growing up I watched my grandmother create clean goose down with the help of my family her numerous sewing projects Often I would find myself with a needle and friend s mother Martha Kasudluak of Umiujaq thread just like her ready to sew some project Sitting beside her it was as Daphne Tooktoo Basket who passed away in 2014 though her ability transferred to me My very first finished project was a small purse which I was proud of I also enjoy beading with my grandmother while she works on her projects which have included a beautiful pair of kamiks sealskin boots parkas snow pants mitts and decoratively sewn Inuit dolls All though I did not learn directly from my grandmother over time I have learned how to make mitts parkas wallets and numerous other handmade items Daphne Tooktoo Basket Daphne Tooktoo Basket with Inuit symbols like the uluk an Inuit woman s rounded knife on them or Daphne Tooktoo Caribou herd 2014 Inuit women s tattooed designs knitted onto hats One of my favourite sewing I remember my very first canoe trip with my grandfather We went to an island projects was an Inuit handmade basket My paternal grandmother was known to to check if there were any Arctic tern eggs I was about four or five years old have a passion for making them I love to go out into nature picking the grass Known as one of the best hunters my grandfather was also known to be the best with friends or family members who are also passionate about making baskets story teller After the government of Canada ordered the RCMP to destroy all My preference are miniature sized baskets the Inuit dog sled teams my grandfather turned to alcohol Although I did not Daphne Tooktoo Parsa with Caribou herd 2014 college 6 directly learn to hunt or camp from him I feel that I learned through his teachMost of my handmade projects are especially made for my children friends ings to his siblings and friends My grandfather had to become the man of the or family members Sometimes I am asked to custom make projects I usually house when he lost his father at very young age around fourteen or fifteen He don t sell my handmade crafts although people often tell me that I could make taught his younger siblings how to hunt and camp It is through his brother and a living out of that But I choose not to For now I am enjoying my studies in his children that I learned many techniques for camping and hunting and I am Graphic and Web Design For some reason my handmade items are connected very thankful for that to graphic and web designing alcholic 14 15 Daphne Tooktoo Basket Daphne Tooktoo Hat 2 Daphne Tooktoo Graphic and Web Design John Abbott College Daphne Tooktoo Inuit Tatto Design Hat Daphne Tooktoo Parsa Fishing 2006 Daphne Tooktoo Hunting 2006 Daphne Tooktoo Graphic and Web Design John Abbott College 2017 7
F ishinG Daphne Tooktoo Beading Daphne Tooktoo Wallet Daphne Tooktoo Parka Daphne Tooktoo Anakin Tooktoo fishing 2006 My grandfather hunted and camped to provide traditional food for his widowed mother and sibling and also his growing young family until the dog slaughter days when all of his dog sled team dogs were killed by the RCMP My grandfather s dog team was the only way to go out and hunt to provide for his family The dog slaughter changed everything Many of the younger generation including myself have not gotten the chance to go out and hunt with a dog sled team but I learned different ways to get out there and hunt or camp to pick up my traditional food These days the snowmobile is our common method of transportation though it does not know what the dogs knew bad weather ahead or the dangerous spots on the road The snowmobile is very noisy and does not have the same connection to nature ski doo snowmobile Purse Wallet tattoo Daphne Tooktoo Wallet Daphne Tooktoo Wallet Daphne Tooktoo Wallet College Daphne Tooktoo Wallet Daphne Tooktoo Mitts Daphne Tooktoo Mitts Daphne Tooktoo Wallet Daphne Tooktoo Ptmarmigan Hunt 2006 6 Daphne Tooktoo Graphic and Web Design John Abbott College 2017 Daphne Tooktoo Graphic and Web Design John Abbott College 2017 3
My grandmother was a good housewife She made winter and summer clothes for her young growing family From all the furs that my grandfather caught my grandmother sewed to make parkas snow pants kamiks sealskin snow boots and more After the 1950s dog slaughter she had to start buying most of her sewing materials from the store Sometimes my grandpa would Sewing go out and hunt or catch seal or caribou for my grandmother to sew Those animals would also provide plenty of traditional food to eat Around that time is when my grandmother developed her passion for sewing My grandmother used to make Inuit sewn dolls and brooches in the shape of small kamiks Lizzie Shem Tooktoo April 14 1926 January 27 1991 I came from a grandfather who became an alcoholic after the dog slaughter days a man who did not get the chance to teach me how to hunt with a dog sled team and my grandmother who never drank but kept busy sewing and keeping the family together I have learned to go out into nature with my family s friend s parents and my great uncle and I am now passionate about ice fishing Almost every weekend during winter I would go out to the lakes or rivers to ice fish with my ice fishing buddy Parsa Kitishimik Our ice fishing trips have expanded to include hunting for caribou and geese Daphne Tooktoo little kamik 2017 Unfisnihed little kamik borchure by Late Lizzie Shem Tooktoo 1940 1950 Daphne Tooktoo Inuit Doll made by Lizzie Shem Tooktoo 2017 4 Daphne Tooktoo Graphic and Web Design John Abbott College 2017 Daphne Tooktoo Graphic and Web Design John Abbott College 5
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