Mikki Adams – elders

Elders play a very important role within our culture. We look up to our elders. They hold all the knowledge. And all the stories that they tell all portray an instance or an event that happened within their life or that has helped them develop them into who they are. They tell stories, they help with Inuit games, they provide knowledge on our history, on the culture that we are keeping alive as well. They have information on upbringing and information on how to be a roundabout individual. They like to have hands on experience, and they like to teach through visual aid and through hands on experience as well. 

Elders, they help with hunting. They will take a child, or their grandchildren out hunting with them and teach them how to, exactly how to either throw the harpoon or how to shoot the gun. And they’ll show you where to hit the animal so that all the meat will not be wasted. They will teach you how to skin the animal, what tools the bones from the animal can be used for. Because the animal that we catch, we use 100 percent of the animal, nothing is wasted.