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Title Nunavut elders. Midwife and mentor / [director, Linda Tucktoo]
Published Canada : Inuit Communications Systems, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (24 min.)
Summary Until she was forty years old, Bessie Ashevak lived in igloos and tents, cooked with qulliqs, sewed her family's skin clothing and raised her children. Bessie was a midwife and routinely delivered babies in tents, igloos, on boats - wherever the family happened to be when the time came. Bessies' grand-niece, Violet, a high-school student who has just had her first baby, seeks advice on raising her new infant
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed July 20, 2017)
In Inuktitut with English subtitles
Subject Inuit -- Nunavut.
Older Inuit.
Inuit -- Social life and customs
Childbirth -- Nunavut
Midwives -- Nunavut
Older Eskimos.
Older Eskimos
Childbirth
Inuit
Inuit -- Social life and customs
Midwives
Older Inuit
SUBJECT Nunavut
Subject Nunavut
Genre/Form documentary film.
Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Ethnographic films.
Documentary films.
Films ethnographiques.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Tucktoo, Linda, director
Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, production company