The Ancestors Are Happy : True Tales of the Arctic

Inuit elders say that the ancestors are happy when stories are told, retold, and preserved.In this "landscape of stories" about Canada's Arctic - rooted in oral history - ethnographer and historian David F.Pelly continues his exploration of Inuit cultural tradition.Drawing on his more than forty years of experiences and encounters in the North, he takes the reader on a journey through the region - from a dog sled trek across Boothia to a spring sealhunt on the sea ice of Pelly Bay — and into the lives of several memorable northern characters — from Iquginnaq, whose life was saved by a shaman, to Mannik, who was Pelly’s first teacher in the ways of Arctic life.The ancestors are pleased.