A very long time ago there were hardly any people around and life was very hard. This was the way that it was and this is the story I have heard. My story may sound like the parts of a dream as I remember them.
Inukkaknailak were the people. They were called by this name because whenever they met other people on a trail they would just kill them for no reason. I will tell you about one of these people and how the Inukkaknailak got their name when the Inuit started to realize that there were Inuit in the world.
One Inukkaknailak kept two dogs on the floor of his iglu. He would welcome travellers by killing them. When a traveller came into his camp, the traveller would usually see the Inukkaknailak without clothing on. When the Inukkaknailak saw that he had company, he would get dressed up and then start to wrestle with his visitor until he killed him. He killed him right there in his iglu.
Meanwhile this Inukkaknailak person had told his dogs they could have the blood of the man who had been killed. Near one dog there was a bone that looked like a shoulder blade. I think this must have really been a shoulder blade because that is what was used as a tool for cutting things up in earlier times.
As soon as the Inukkaknailak had cut the dead person with the shoulder blade knife, blood lowed, and the dogs started licking it up. They licked the blood up quickly, the dogs of this Inukkaknailak.
The next day another traveller came to visit. This man had clothing that made him look like the common loon. Inside the iglu, the son of the Inukkaknailak really wanted to get this man for himself. The father realized this and immediately got up and began to dress himself even faster – this man with two dogs on his floor who tracked and sniffed for blood.
The traveller with common loon clothing was seen by the Inukkaknailak. He was a common loon, and he had beautiful clothing. The traveller entered the iglu and removed his clothing and put them on the icy floor so he would not slip and fall, this man with the common loon clothing.
There were several people in the iglu when the common loon man met the Inukkaknailak who was now fully dressed and ready. The traveller saw a young man sitting in the room who went to grab the cutting tool made from a shoulder bone. At this point the Inukkaknailak leader warned the visitor by saying, “No, no, no, watch out, that young man is just about to kill you!?
The people in the iglu were very scared now. The visitor said, “What, what my younger brother, he actually just about killed you!” Oh, I almost forgot to tell you that the Inukkaknailak man also said, “The dog was just about to taste your blood!” and the common loon man said, “They could taste your blood instead!?
These two brothers started to wrestle with each other. The common loon man killed the Inukkaknailak man and the dogs began to lick his blood, the blood that was trickling onto the floor. The dogs began to lick this blood which they had been raised to like.