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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THIS PAGE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MADE WITHOUT DEBBIE DAHL EDWARDSON'S GRACIOUS RECORDINGS AND EDITING. TAIKU.
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