I talked to a man who grew up in the old village. He lived in a sod hut with whale bone walls. He said they had caribou mattresses to sleep on and at the end they had electricity from 3 PM to 9 PM. Sometimes, they had no electricity - it went out pretty often.
He is now working in the school's shop class and helping kids to make masks. He told me the story behind the masks. It was of a whale or a walrus and what it meant to the people of the village.
He also has a good knowledge of the history of the village, now and many years ago. He worked with the archeologists who excavated in years past.
It was quite interesting.
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