Indian Country Today (Lakota Times), January 21st, 2004
Qitsualik, Rachel A. Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 01-21-2004 A few years ago, I had the good fortune to visit Arctic Bay -- a peaceful community, strongly tied to its elders, and nestled at the base of a ring of hills, like the precious chick of a solemn mother bird.
It was there that I spent quite a few hours talking to my older cousin, Kudlu. I could always find her in the work-shed out back of her house, where she sat like a traditional Inuit woman. She was constantly sewing caribou-skin clothing for southern game hunters, who invariably underpaid her.
Kudlu's mind was always in ...
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