Echo of the last howl - English Version

[Music] [Music] [Applause] an Akula Miami and no way everywhere around there was only the wind whistling all barks and yelps had ceased giving way to silence a silence that was harsh filled with shame the shame of having done nothing said nothing [Music] take onna only that morning the men and the children had walked up to the bay as they'd been asked the dogs tied up but trusting had followed them this is a story I waited a long time to tell you little Mary a story I'll tell you today in solemn appropriation as a rite of passage I will tell you what the men did I will tell you the price we paid in our history in our community Timmy he only what to show our elders I told you had nothing nothing but wind and ice and the vastness of the land nothing but what they wove with their courage their determination to be whole with the snow and the dogs better to scout to track to harpoon and to bring caribou seals and salman its back to the community when only your halloween only you know I would keep a local I used to travel by dog team with my father when I lived in Kenya sook there were no snowmobiles or machine transportation at the time I enjoy traveling by dog team as it was the sole method of transportation in our lifetime I don't have one in the past the husky dogs were the only means of doing our daily work in order to survive if a man didn't have dogs he could not go and set up his Fox traps check them regularly or hunt for food within his area although men handle various things differently they had one thing in common dogs [Music] if the dogs were bred accordingly there were a major asset to their masters and could last their lifetime if a man was a great hunter he could even buy a Peter head boat because he had help from his dogs the dogs would go back and forth daily to the Fox tracks that's how a man got his peterhead boat from the sale of Fox skins even men from different camps would work together and through their teamwork would end up getting a Peter head boat Peter hotel aha Ursa Majoris Kenneth Tynan you know how to get me toilet humor and if it I have to imagine I now mean [Music] Laskey dogs allowed us to be a peace with ourselves providing us with the ability to hunt for food for our families and knowing that they will alert us of any danger we were able to spend a good night's rest and an evening we're not worrying about dangerous wildlife approaching our camp those dogs were the best lifeguards the husky dogs were really useful in their day even during a blizzard the dogs would reach the Masters desired destination without losing their way we didn't need search and rescue for lost hunters because no one got lost that is one advantage I liked really light even myself I've been through that out on the land and got caught in a blizzard and my dogs took me to my destination it was good to trust to know the dogs would see me through in whatever situation even on sea ice I don't do to children mom I don't even know when counted a blizzard the hunter didn't give instructions even myself I used to be told to keep my mouth shut by the hunter so the dogs wouldn't lose their concentration in keeping on the right track during a snowstorm the dogs would go straight to the Masters desired destination without any problem oh but I mean no I chaired it to you boy I'll overlook the Malick critiques have your dogs had a built-in compass and didn't need the technology we use today the kind that requires batteries assuming the dogs were even used to find steel breathing holes and sometimes a family in an igloo would get snowed over leaving no trace but they could even sniff around and find them saving them from suffocation as well as hunger for sure the dogs have saved many lives they even saved some people from drowning by pulling them out of the water I have heard all these heroic stories before but I've never experienced the last one and I've never don't know for sure we wouldn't have survived without the dogs we've had to eat one of our five dogs my sisters and I were just children then when my father wanted to go to the ice floe edge to a small island Victor he would attack to that can you attain it how much clearly my father killed one of the dogs you know sawed off the end of the sled we used to have a long slit who's the wood for firewood and that was how my parents saved all our lives I remember it clearly yeah when the storm was over we continued on our way to the island with some leftover dog kept moving on we come on it too hard okay son do you'll never get him Oh [Music] hey hey [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] okay [Music] actually I hope but why so hot when a man started to prepare his sled for a trip how dogs were very happy and started to Yelp and bounce around and you know how motivating time up after the leader of the pack had been harnessed and put in front of the sled the others would follow and stand ready to get harnessed to the pawnee-eagleton no Sonny no comet Elenin le malade them with over look I didn't know and they would stay put without running all over the place to determine Emilia oh you make me need a lot a mini-map a low velocity and time the bar don't flick the whip say hurrah and run toward that direction to stop them oh I stopped them when they don't go in the direction I indicated and run up to them if they keep going in the other direction just not them oh I run in the direction I want them to go and I say ho ho and then they go in that direction sometimes they just want to keep the same route and then I have to crack the whip and say head on and funny they'll go the way I want that's how we train them to obey our commands with those simple words head up oak Oak for us means to turn right oh yeah here you go and I can't tell you about that not on TV it's my secret look elegant Ella [Music] it's eternal those days if you had four or five fox pelts you could trade them for supplies such as flower tea tobacco and bullets the dogs were the means to do these things setting up trap lines checking them and shopping trips caproic assuming a girl this was a life of freedom with the dogs our only allies week after week they pulled all loads braved all weather with dauntless courage they were proud fast gallant behind their harnessed teams the sleds would sweep by whips fluttering like spots of color in the canvas of a clever artist the dogs knew the man they never disappointed that he understood them obeying their voices they made a humanitarian maturity aroma kind of semiotic to be a mega meat simultaneously otoshi between the kunais mmm they never gave up unless not by hunger we had to make sure every dog would eat as a teenager this was my responsibility once the head dog took over today still I am impressed after nightfall hunters at peace would sleep because the dogs were watching human element tapaswi in Matera tsunami it's a mile ago Dick Cheney kept Amata they make Ganesha on Amata de pollo if a man owned dogs he was a very self-sufficient provider because the dogs made it possible for him to travel and hunt his family in other words the dog team made a man even if it seemed like a boy wouldn't become a real man as soon as he started owning a dog team he became a great hunter and a real man he even ended up helping his neighbors by providing transportation and food it's a lot children at the dogs were crucial to the Inuit before the invasion of civilization and we came to kill the dogs take that morning we were told to take the dogs up to the bay naive worried surprised we obeyed not daring to question what the first time I saw that policeman his face was Stern and looked intimidating I mean he'd to hide now no during the dog slaughter the white man just went about it without any regard for the Inuit I'm not saying it was all white men but the police were in the village at the time just went and slaughtered the dogs without preamble or forewarning do you see many yet a new at noon I've heard of some instances where they had told the image with the time the dogs this hadn't been done before the dogs roam freely to keep their strength but as far as I know the white men never considered explaining to the in with the reason for the slaughter but that they didn't ask for provision or gave any warning about system it as I've learned in most of the villagers they just went and slaughtered a mission Asaduddin Owaisi Maya I need addition manager no they did not say anything more objective those days the huddle not were very unapproachable and even scary to the Inuit that's why the you know it didn't do or say anything to stop them or even voice their concern those days the head would not were very unapproachable and quite scary to the Inuit I myself was very scared of them so I didn't dare say anything when they started killing our dogs when the hundred not first started arriving up north they didn't treat the Inuit as their own kind they treated them like garbage they started out that way I remember this one man in particular who would really mistreat the Inuit me up though I got thick cover the beginning of the slaughter seemed as if the RCMP did it there was a policeman stationed in Inupiaq but none anywhere else close to here it seemed the RCMP gave it their all but they were only following orders from the government they took their jobs seriously killing loose dogs they had the authority to appoint other Caucasians in other villages to kill those dogs these RCMP wanted something done we had no choice but to obey it she won it take what they appointed any available Caucasian whether it be a store manager or whoever was available to shoot any loose dogs because the government wanted that they didn't see the damage they did to our livelihood maybe we know that Canadians live naturally even if we got really mad at the police or any huh do not we found them intimidating and we would not say anything about it even when we knew they were responsible for killing our dogs that's how it was heart thumping with rage our only means of survival killed anger but intimidation at the time we couldn't do anything about it although they were near how do not now we're running my only good command this is where our dogs were slaughtered on the bay we came down that it seemed the whole population was here leading their dogs to their death leading their dogs on the leash for the slaughter even the children came along with their assigned dogs that was how it happened [Music] so we have no choice we have to kill the dogs you killed my character no I don't remember if at all my dog slaughtered probably none survived although I had tried to resist earlier they had said it was better to kill the dogs before the dogs turned on humans as they had been attacking people in other villages that was the excuse for the slaughter [Music] they were waiting weapon in hand better to murder our dogs the sounds of gunshots mingled with our little ones shouts and cries we were powerless paralyzed silenced anguished like hounded beast shorter in Pajero tutor the patient returned who my updated vignette tell your teacher that fed take cover let go when those policemen came after we were all on the ice they started shooting right away yes they did we used to assign dogs to our children and they thought they really owned the dogs and played with them but the purpose of the outing sure and that's why it was so much more heartbreaking yes although it was heartbreaking we had no choice but me and a lot of dogs were out on the bay for the slaughter I heard the first shots and the dog started howling until they got shot I witnessed the burning of the dogs after the slaughter it was a horrible scene and I didn't like seeing top of that the mere presence of that policeman was intimidate and even scary every time I saw a policeman they affected me that way yeah the policeman was rough on the dogs sometimes his shot didn't kill the dog and they would run away with a hole in the stomach or elsewhere what an experience no we even let the dogs to the slaughter site because the Slayers requested it the dogs were used to whistle and went willingly we put up a brave front but our minds were seething with rage it was heart-rending and thoroughly depressing for sure some people didn't sleep well that night thinking about the deprivation we did our regret I don't remember too well after that but the slaughter was a first of its kind and it was a painful experience a few could determine I felt like I was handing over my life when I let the dogs out to the bay seeing them for the last time when they were so trusting going about the way they usually do leading them with the leash to the slaughter site I felt for my dog to hollow from what they were tell me a little bit elicit but I think all the other victims felt the same way too I think they were handing over a part of their life to death to achieve a total total of a little power I couldn't think straight knowing that our only means of transportation was gone dr. Katherine Demery laughter look I don't work laughter what the some dogs I didn't really do in your limit m87 year he neutered male a doctor after talk to him but there were some charity Taric to have to open a pinata periodico along telling me and that that first loader was done by the employee of the Hudson's Bay Company leaving the men would come to trade with no means of getting back to their families the two or three employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the only Caucasians here at the time they shot the hunters dogs because the dogs were roaming around freely yes those guys started the slaughter without warning and before the police arrived they fired the first shots there were usually two employees but the manager brought his wife the husband shot the dogs that belonged to the hunters who came to trade their fox pelts leaving them unable to go back home became irate yeah someone got mad I followed one man from another camp I went to appeal to the manager asking him to finish killing the dog that he had shot the manager just got mad and started fist fighting and he was told that the dog he had shot was obtained under the building particular planet over tario he was asked if he could shoot it once more to end the suffering he didn't like it and started the fistfight with the owner but he was no match for that you know even though they were the same size you know it every time a dog was killed the owner tried asking the manager to stop killing the dog but he never stopped he continued to shoot any loose dogs they may love proven new to the world yes of those days the dogs were the only means of survival for the Inuit they really serve their purpose the Hudson's Bay Company was not the only organization in our area people such as government agents teachers and provincial government agents started arriving the number of dogs continued decreasing because they were not tied up as we had been told to do the appointed dog killer has used a shotgun to kill any loose dogs at least in our village even the dogs that were hiding under a house will get chucked these dogs were very important to us because they were our only means of survival yet federal and provincial government agents were butchering that we act our exhibit [Music] is merely if you must learn me Tokyo me you rotten eater anonymity [Music] come here come on you know for this one our co-worker the RCMP were the messengers for the government the government plans for its country and when they give specific instructions to their different departments they have to comply so when the RCMP were told to keep the villages free of loose dogs they obliged these policemen seemed like they owned the world we wouldn't want to get on their bad side because they even look brutal and they did their jobs to the hilt so what did you and only what a child never looked any weaker the inner wit were really intimidated by the newcomers thinking they were super beings the white man had brought things they had never seen including steel implements they seemed awesome even regal and so therefore intimidating and because of that the inner wit didn't dare oppose them the inner wit may have been able to stop the slaughter but the white man had all this new stuff and possibly had other powers because of this there was no resistance offered at the time of the slaughter to us in my youth karate yell okay popular doctrine but a pickle it was a huge pile of dead dogs shaped like a pyramid on the ice to be burned collected of Dalek baby made a tower of the dogs one after the other were heaped in a pile a tower of death the police please to be efficient hurried to set them on fire there were some of us who helped this horrible cremation haunts me with bitter memories yet many have forgotten that they were savagely deprived of their identity of their freedom now in a minute I'm a man of many yes they left right after the slaughter my only took partner sure but ago we were told that they attacked and mold people that's why they were being shot but in the earlier days before the huddle not arrived when a dog attacked a person it was killed instantly because that was an unspoken rule of the Inuit what really happened to us was that fine healthy dogs were being killed for no apparent or logical reason that was really distressing to me not just for me but for a lot of other men because of that our livelihood has been ruined and wasted they clean up toward that these have the dogs were ferocious they didn't want the dog to mauling and killing people those were the reasons given those reasons are similar to the firearms safety program in force now don't the firearm safety rules have reminded me of the reasons given for the dog slaughter but I've been trying to remember when a dog had actually killed a person and I've come up blank killed by a dog never heard of it but I remember only one incident and bhavani took later after into it from the Akula Vick area moved to our camp I remember only one person being attacked and killed by dogs but it cannot convince me that the dogs are a menace to society I used to sleep in between my dogs and was never afraid of them I didn't agree with the slaughter because I knew my dogs were my means of livelihood and I could travel long distances using the dog team when they said that the dogs were murderers I didn't believe it I believe instead that they supported the survival of people especially before the arrival of the Caucasians if they didn't have dogs the Inuit population would have died off instead of increasing to more the danger of having the dogs attacking people may have been only an excuse I see it now as something to put down the Inuit to take away their self-sufficiency [Music] take what hard or not kkoma the Caucasians just one of the dogs killed those Caucasians those government people started killing her dogs here at the same time the snowmobile was introduced slow ones with speeds between seven and ten miles per hour the first models I was told you might be better off without those keep your dog T but I really wanted to give us no 'mobile because I didn't have to run beside it and it could really move easily they could run with only the use of my thumb and didn't eat all the alertness of using a dog team those store managers promoted the snowmobile even though we had plenty of dogs the speed and ease of the snowmobile was the downfall of the dog team and started the hatred for the dog [Music] who do they do damage no matter what every type of Transportation does damage a lot of people have died using the snowmobile the dogs have mauled and killed people but far less than the snowmobile how old the snowmobile has killed many people maimed many people the dogs have killed a lot less the damage done by the dogs was overblown but nothing has been said or done about the damage done by the snowmobile that's the part I really don't like the dogs have done a lot less damage to humans and people complain about them for the few incidents but they don't go on and on about the damages done to humans caused by the snowmobile that's the part I really don't like nobody is doing anything about removing the snowmobile and probably nobody will [Music] the share inertia polymer when I was told that my people would start getting snowmobiles I couldn't imagine what a snowmobile was because I had never seen one before what's a snowmobile [Music] why was he laughing it's like he's enjoying the slaughter I remember thinking at the time I didn't like father Dion's attitude what's a snowmobile like I had no idea sure and then the snowmobile was for sale and some people purchased there's some people have no money at article or cheekytoad I lost my major Jeremy tama-chan Apple after shan jianmi my father got his own snowmobile that he had to fix when it broke down and it took all day he had to buy expensive parts I felt sorry for him and maybe a cheeky tailor child on it I could to Japan I look him up a lot and I taught I can only give a lot to have had enough Hey [Music] yeah snowmobiles are expensive and need lots of gasoline when we use dog teams and would go out on land for weeks at a time we didn't need to buy anything for them our selves we needed some team did a banach mainly T and some kerosene for the portable stove but nothing store-bought for the dogs as long as we had some country food along with some tea and some tobacco that was it our supplies for a long hunting trip there was rarely Bannock and we could easily do without but when we ran out of tea our strength was sacked like the dogs when they ran out of seal fat parameter longingly can t trick your teacher over your chocolate cage a [ __ ] tea is essential for us Laura they might talk we got yeah I started raising dogs again remembering my father's advice he used to say don't buy the snowmobile continue with the dog team those words kept coming back to me and I couldn't forget them his words of wisdom saying the snowmobile breaks down and the driver could freeze to death out on the land don't use them but I paid no attention at the time just seeing how far and fast I could go on the snowmobile those machines were expensive and the price keeps going up it was our downfall over there he didn't hello not know but it white men sold the snowmobiles we didn't have money to pay so we had to barter with soap stone carvings seal skins and seasonal jobs it took years and years to get back on our feet some never managed into alcohol they sank for a long time we couldn't hunt in winter we had to wait for summer to harpoon from kayaks Shiva cheetah haddock put Nolan assuming [Music] Khepera i feared what was going to happen next because our only means of hunting was wiped out it was not a bright future the typical ephemeral we were so devastated and wondering how we would go on we didn't know what would happen next in there the thought consuming part of our daily lives was no longer [Music] everybody I activate my spirit was broken because the dogs were the most prized possession of an empath they helped us to survive by getting us further away from camp to hunting areas since animals don't live nearby you another pretty as ever all together we were able to travel long distances during those times my duty to it they my doctor what did actually are [Music] the issue of doll killing is very difficult for me to comprehend wouldn't [Music] happily the policemen didn't offer any alternatives it seems they just wanted to wipe out the Inuit getting rid of their livelihood I had a wife and two kids when they started killing our dogs in Gujarat appear around 1960 61 and by 1962 all our dogs were wiped out then I'll optimi it affected the man alive stripping him of his ability his hunting prowess and his authority did deprive the family members are going along for the hunting adventure it deprived the offspring of learning how to drive the dog team at that how to learn survival skills LTS roughneck gonna do Yoshi my love it that's amore him a very core of inner wood life was abolished by the slaughter it deeply affected a lot of people not just the man but the whole family how did we know it the real egg in [Music] you need a conical energy to internet I know in your salon Savita [Music] to me the hotel civility Louie in German after the slaughter he do social problems started they had too much time to think and the future didn't look promising that was the turning point of our lifestyle into degradation you don't see me oh the art of making homebrew had been in existence before the slaughter the abuse of homebrew started after and we began seeing in my attorney the cannot rely Sigma symbol young-looking morning only yeah I'm a Charlie uh I gotta know after the slaughter there were a lot of drunks I remember a lot of drunken people and it terrified me there was no law and order in our village there seemed to be no one in charge everything was going crazy there was chaos drunk people everywhere fighting angry the fights were horrible there was wife-swapping that isn't the way to live all these happenings terrified us [Music] nuna leaning and excelling the Inuit settled down and stayed in the newly erected villages the white man had started these sedentary lifestyle in populated areas and the slaughter help to stop the scenery from leaving they have no more freedom and waited for a government handout a totally different lifestyle back then they just waited around for the monthly welfare they were totally deprived of their freedom and felt it when they had no more dogs for dog didn't I see remember - Meena America blood you know Anna Hillman I don't want to lose my unique identity I have always tried to keep the inner wit culture alive I used to use my dog team even when I was the only one others have since started I don't want to lose our culture and the dog team is one of the symbols of our ethnic background beauty and you get closer down yeah no one has ever apologized to me not even once I don't remember anything resembling an apology I'm sorry your dogs were killed is a phrase I have never heard nothing was ever given to me as a replacement I'm telling it like it is for that boy [Music] [Applause] [Music] we'll talk about to see my got my nominee yep and I've compared myself to the time of the Japanese war the Japanese were deported from Canada they were landed immigrants declaring themselves Canadian and they were in turn because of their origin and that Japan was at war with Canada the slaughter reminded me of the wrongdoing done to the Japanese WC memory happen easy day Martina Manohar Munich's happily them of you see maggot you see any the Canadian government has since apologized and compensated to have the Japanese involved I believe we should give the same treatment documents even after all this time for destroying our way of life so much Japanese nip-tucked oshimen hanging the Inu silly young if we started shooting down the airplanes or any of the transportation that came around it goes without saying the government would declare a war against us but we have kept quiet until now certainly the government would wage war against us if we shut down their airplanes which is their transportation method much the same way that got rid of our dogs their reaction would probably be extremely harsh compared to ours that was how helpless and hurt they made us feel when the dogs were wiped out those who had dogs have been silent about their anger for far too long but today we are voicing her anger and hurt towards this dog butchering issue because that was our way of living and it was eliminated at a Tomatina hatha yoga and then he'd let Amaya my fellow into its deprivation affected me deeply and made me realize that it is not the way to treat other human beings whether they are English but that French or Chinese to keep in mind that it is their culture and not try to change I don't go and order the Italians Scottish or others change their way of life it has made me appreciate different cultures you know she's a beauty huh do it illegally immature Peter Adam II am alert first attack comma capito enemy WikiLeaks president and George birth II mackovic Secretary have been promoting the return of the dog team and to show the government people how the slaughter affected the Inuit they know how deeply the best hunters got hurt and they are still feeling it today let's have a look at the mushroom Ibaka [Music] in a palapa level you know in me the Sun is rising onto Nunavik but the bane flock dock is crawling with doubts the worst of it is that we'll never know was it meant to control us better to take over our space were we victims of a lobby in the vastness of this land still we are seeking the truth in a summon for dignity this butchery could have been thwarted would have had to fight so little Mary promise me never to forget and in your turn to tell there are legacies one could well do without of like tragic beacons they guide us they alert us and warn us of this ordeal maybe you'll learn to resist if you are mystified support nicotine connection [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Makivik Corporation

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Keywords: nunavik, inuit, dog slaughter, Inuit Nunangat, Echo of the last Howl, documentary, film, full film, movie, english version, makivik, corporation, 1950s, 1960s

Id: IpHPH4VYKAA

Length: 54min 15sec (3255 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 20 2018