This is my story on my day and life as an inuit. It is me as an inuit. I go through morning, noon, afternoon, and night. I worked hard on this and I hope that you like it because it just might be very boring or very exciting to you. I will let you decide that.

My name is Qaajui. I am an Inuit I live in Nunivut with my parents. We live

in an igloo. I helped my father build our igloo.

It‚s cold outside but I am warm in the igloo with my parents. I wake up. I

hear father going to hunt. For breakfast I have the seal meat that my mother

cooked over the fire. I carefully put on my kamiks made out of otter. I also

put on my nassak, mitts and parka. I grab my savik and spears. I start to

walk towards the ice and hope that an animal is there so I do not have to

wait or hunt for one. I go up beside the hole and get my spear ready for a

seal or an otter. Across the ice I see a polar bear. I slowly creep up on

it. It does not see me because it is waiting for a seal. I aim my spear. I

throw it forward and hits the great beast. It is not dead but hurt badly so

I get another spear. The bear jumps at me but I get out of the way. I throw

the other spear and it too stabs the beast. It‚s weak and I have one spear

left but I need that later so I do something crazy. I jump on it‚s back with

my savik in my hand and I stab the back hanging on for my life. It roars a

call of defeat and I fall off. It falls to the ground. We shall have a good

lunch today. As I take it back to my mother I also try to take out the

spears but they snap as I thought they would. My savik does not break for it

is strong and very stiff. My mother will enjoy what I have brought back. It

is my mother‚s responsibility to skin the animals and prepare the meal.

While my mother cooks lunch I make another spear but then my mother calls me

for lunch.

We have polar bear for lunch and my mother tells me to get some fish and

seal for dinner and some otter for father‚s new nassak and mitts. I tell her

that I do not have enough spears and I need a bow for a special treat. She

gives me the bow and some arrows and lets me make another spear and I‚m off.

l take the dogsled for I will come bake with a lot of food. First I get my

aulasaulk and start ice fishing. I catch three fish so I start to wait for

seals. I get my spear ready as I did before with the polar bear. I am

waiting quietly beside the hole. A seal pops his head up and tries to go

back as fast as he can but I am faster and my aim is true. I also have a

lot of strength so he dies instantly. I pull it up onto the ice and I wait

for another seal. Hopefully my surprise is out today. Another seal pops up

but this one splashes water in my eyes so it escapes. I changed to my bow

and arrow. Another seal pops up and I let my finger off the string. It

strikes the seal perfectly. I lift it onshore beside the first seal. I put

the seals on the dogsled with the fish and go to another hole. Right when I

get there two otters pop onto the ice. I hurl two spears and each hit an

otter. The otters fall. I am glad I have enough animals so far but it is

time for me to try and hunt for my surprise, an elk. I take the dogsled

team and we search and search and finally find an elk wandering around on

the frozen wasteland. I am careful because they are fast and can kill a

human. I get in position in case it starts to run at me. I shoot an arrow

at it and it hits the elk. The elk runs at me and I command the dogsled

team to run. The elk slows down so I take another shot at him and strike

him right in the heart. It falls. I load it on the dogsled with the other

dead animals and go home.
 

When I arrive back at the camp my parents are amazed at my hunting skills.

We have a late supper but mother and father don‚t care for they like what I

have brought back. We feast on elk, fish and seal. After dinner mother

starts to work on father‚s nassak and mitts. My father congratulates me and

tells me I am a grown man and they would not worry so much about me when I

go hunting. Now I go to sleep so that I can be ready to hunt tomorrow

morning, noon and night.

I enjoy my life as an Inuit in Canada. I hope to keep the Inuit heritage

alive.

By Billy O‚Reilly