Turning Into Stone: Places in Pangnirtung Inuit Oral Tradition

For Inuit, songs are a form of oral tradition. They are passed on stories that embody people’s relationships with the landscape. Narrating about hunting journeys, the chores of butchering and flensing animals, as well as unusual events, singing embraces people experiences on the land. Music becomes a milieu that connects the proximal environment with individual and collective “memoryscape”.

From Pangnirtung, this podcast presents a lullaby sang by Elisapee Ishulutaq’s.