Travelling by Dog Team

In a 2004 interview published in Uqalurait, elder Jose Angutingurniq discussed how “People did a lot of walking. They may have been well off for food, but as they sometimes could only afford two dogs, they helped haul the sled ... the older children and wives would also help. They would be called uniaqtut, and [they] pulled the sled along from the sides. The woman walked ahead pulling on a rope and breaking the trail. She is also pulling, and so is certainly uniaqtuq, but in addition she is leading the dogs, and this is called qamagaqtuq.”