Audio - Visual Archives

Canadian Broadcasting Corporations Northern Services audio recordings of Inuvialuit Drum Dances recorded in the early 1970's.

Each dance is introduced by Billy Day.

• Celebration at dark times of year (mp3)
• Dancers swirl and stamp (mp3)
• Early morning on the land (mp3)
• Hunter angry (mp3)
• Kitigaluit village (mp3)
• Prize seal caught (mp3)
• See ducks on the lake (mp3)

(Please note there may be a slight delay before the recording begins)

Lyrics to The Ballad of Slim Semmler - written and sung by Ted Wesley (from the Blackflies and Mosquitoes website).