When the book I, Nuligak was published in 1966 it was not only recognized as the very first Inuvialuit autobiography but also highly praised for offering a glimpse of a time and place that few Canadians knew existed.
Nuligak – or Bob Cockney as the Missionaries later christened him – was born in 1895 in Kittigazuit, a traditional Inuvialuit community near the eastern edge of the Mackenzie River delta. This was a time of great change, American whaling ships had entered the Beaufort Sea a few years earlier and…
