Nunavut elders. Midwife and mentor /
Until she was forty years old, Bessie Ashevak lived in igloos and tents, cooked with qulliqs, sewed her family's skin clothing and raised her children. Bessie was a midwife and routinely delivered babies in tents, igloos, on boats - wherever the family happened to be when the time came. Bessies...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | Inuktitut English |
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Canada :
Inuit Communications Systems,
2005.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Summary: | Until she was forty years old, Bessie Ashevak lived in igloos and tents, cooked with qulliqs, sewed her family's skin clothing and raised her children. Bessie was a midwife and routinely delivered babies in tents, igloos, on boats - wherever the family happened to be when the time came. Bessies' grand-niece, Violet, a high-school student who has just had her first baby, seeks advice on raising her new infant. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed July 20, 2017). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (24 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 00:23:56 |
| Language: | In Inuktitut with English subtitles. |