I know I have had an unusual life, being born in a skin tent and living to hear on the radio that two men have landed on the moon. I think the new times started for Eskimos after the white people’s war, when the white men began to make many houses in the Arctic. Eskimos began to move into the settlements and then the white people started helping us to get these houses. That’s why life changed. I don’t think everybody was too fond of moving from the camps, but they still came anyway. ...in some ways I like living in a warm house, but in the old days, before all these things happened, we were always healthy. I was never sick, not even with all the children I had. ...I have heard there is someone – not a human being, but a spirit – in the moon. When I heard that the two men had landed on the moon I wondered what the spirit thought of these two men landing on his land.

Pitseolak in Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life