Things to Watch or Listen for While Viewing the Movie

1. Name of the story teller. (Adamic Inukpuk – the grandson of the legendary Nanook of the North.)
2. Story of the rainbow – holds up the sky; it’s the Earth’s walking stick.
3. Inuksuk – Piles of rocks, sometimes in human form, used as markers for the Inuit. Each Inuksuk tells the story of the humans who have passed by that spot.
4. Caribou and Reindeer herds.
5. Adamic speaks of his favorite time of the year being Autumn because it’s a time to see family and friends. Notice the contrast between putting up the shelters of the old ways and the dirt bikes uses as transportation.
6. Northern Lights – Aurora borealis
7. Use of helicopters for herding
8. Transportation on motor bikes and snowmobiles.
9. Marking of the Reindeer by each family
10. The final act of the round-up – Elder leading the old Reindeer out of the corral first so the animal can lead the rest of the reindeer to freedom. As long as the reindeer are allowed freedom they will always return.
11. Ice house – igloo
12. Ice fishing for the seal.
13. Tell them to listen for these quotes:

“If I don’t teach my son our ways no body will?”. This statement is made when the Inuit father takes his son out to build an ice house.

“Without our stories, what would we know of the past?”

“The patient man survives. To wait is not a waste of time”