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My Name Is Not Easy

Debbie Dahl Edwardson

LIST OF WORDS

Meaning

name (nickname)

thank you

whale blubber

grandma

grandpa

name

Halloween costume contest

giant

I don't know           

caribou

smells bad

name

brrr, cold

raven

kidney

wolverine

place to pray/church

constellation/Orion’s belt

name (open lead)

cooked whale meat and maktak

great grandparent

quick

white people

name (Luke)

dog name

frozen meat, whale or fish

seal oil

Like at puuqtaluk, the costume contest back home where old people dress up goofy to try and scare us and make us laugh, putting their parkas on inside out and dragging their arms across the floor like monitors learning to dance.

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Page  Word         

3          Bunna             

4          taiku               

3          maktak            

3          aaka                

4          aapa               

9          Amiq               

18        puuqtaluk        

22        iñukpasuk        

26        Atchuu                

41        tuttu                

58        aqhaaa           

83        Aaluk             

87        alapaa           

92        tulugaq           

94        taqtuk             

111      Qavik              

111      Anaivik          

159      tuvaurat          

162      Uiñiq               

174      uunaalik         

181      Amau              

181      qilamik            

185      taniks               

213      Aamaugak       

241      Pakak              

242      quaq               

242      misigaaq         

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