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Lumaaq I.

from Lumaaq by Arará

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A long time ago, there was a widow named Lumaaq. She had a son and a daughter, and one dog called Irquaq.

Lumaaq’s son was blind. Lumaaq neglected her blind son, and let him live by himself in an old, abandoned igloo. She did not care for him lovingly.

One spring, when the igloo windows were melting away, a hungry polar bear appeared outside the blind boy’s igloo. Lumaaq and her daughter were very frightened. Lumaaq told her son to grab his bow and arrow, and shoot the bear. The blind boy shot an arrow, and killed the polar bear dead.

As soon as the bear fell, Lumaaq shouted, “Qimmituanga pitippaa. Irquaq pitippaa.” [The arrow has hit our only dog! Iqquaq is dead!”]

The blind boy thought he had shot the polar bear. He had a feeling that his mother was not speaking the truth. He said, “If it was the dog, it would have made a whimpering sound” [Maralarajalaurpuq]. He thought his mother was lying. But he could not be sure.

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from Lumaaq, released October 19, 2015

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