Kiligvak Hunter: A Story from Anaktuvuk Pass - January 31, 2014 [YouTube, 1 hour, 10 minutes]Presenter: Raymond Paneak, Ruth Rulland and Jeff Rasic
Description: The Inupiat have lived in the North Slope since the beginning of time. They were even there hunting mammoths about 12,000 years ago! The Inupiat Heritage Center is opening a new exhibit to showcase the Inupiaq legend of hunting mammoths near Anaktuvuk Pass. Simon Paneak and Elijah Kakinya were two well-known story tellers who both have versions of this very legend. Their stories give cultural meaning and context to the Ice Age fossils that we are displaying from the Ikpikpak River. The Inupiat Heritage Center is honored to invite Raymond Paneak (Paneak's son) and Ruth Rulland (Kakinya's daughter) to share with the public the importance of oral history and memories of their fathers, the great story tellers themselves. Jeff Rasic, Archaologist from Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, has also been invited to talk about the prehistoric and modern use of mammoth ivory to make tools and sculptures.