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The Copper Inuit of the Coronation Gulf region of Canada's Northwest Territories were among the last aboriginal groups to be contacted by people from outside, mainly during the early years of the 20th century. When Doctor R.D. Martin arrived in Coppermine in 1929, he had to deal with one of the consequences of that contact, a tuberculosis epidemic.
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Main credits
Harper, Ray (film director)
Harper, Ray (screenwriter)
Harper, Ray (editor of moving image work)
Krepakevich, Jerry (film producer)
Slabyj, Lydia (narrator)
Other credits
Cinematography, James Jeffrey; sound recording, Lindsay Bucknell, Jerry D. Krepakevich; narration writer, Ray Harper; music, Michael Becker.
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Indigenous Studies, History/Politics, Issues, Ethics and Religious Culture, Religious Diversity/Heritage, Geography, The Arctic, Health and Medicine, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Indigenous Peoples, Inuit - Health and Safety, Inuit - Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, DocumentaryKeywords
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PEOPLE FROM ACROSS
THE CANADIAN ARCTIC
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HAVE GATHERED IN COPPERMINE,
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
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TO WITNESS
A DOUBLE WEDDING CEREMONY.
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DANIEL KALIKTANA
WILL MARRY CHRISTINE AVAGONA.
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EARL HARVEY
IS MARRYING EMMA OLGANA.
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EARL\'S GRANDPARENTS,
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BOTH PENTECOSTAL MINISTERS
FROM NAPANEE, ONTARIO,
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HAVE FLOWN 5,000 KILOMETRES
TO THIS ARCTIC VILLAGE.
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THEY\'RE CONDUCTING THIS SERVICE
WITH REVEREND AISELY,
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THE LOCAL PENTECOSTAL MINISTER,
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AND FATHER LAPOINTE,
THE CATHOLIC PRIEST.
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FROM THE TIME MISSIONARIES
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FIRST ENCOUNTERED
THE COPPER INUIT,
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CHURCHES HAVE BEEN A PART
OF THE LIVES OF THESE PEOPLE,
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A PART OF THE COMPLETE CHANGE
IN THEIR WAY OF LIFE.
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[ MINISTER ]: NOW,
EMMA WILL TAKE THE OTHER RING
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AND PLACE IT
ON THE THIRD FINGER...
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[ NARRATOR ]: THESE ELDERS
WITNESSED THE ARRIVAL
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OF THE QABLUNAAQ--
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THE WHITE PEOPLE.
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WHEN THE QABLUNAAQ
CAME HERE TO LIVE,
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THE CONSEQUENCES WERE IMMEDIATE
AND DEVASTATING.
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IN 1928, THERE WERE
ONLY TWO BUILDINGS HERE--
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THE ANGLICAN CHURCH
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AND THE HUDSON\'S BAY COMPANY
POST.
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THE FOLLOWING YEAR,
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
ESTABLISHED A MISSION
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AND THE RACE FOR THE SOULS
OF THE COPPER INUIT WAS ON.
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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS,
EVERY SPRING AND FALL,
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INUIT CAME TO THIS SPOT
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AT THE MOUTH OF
THE COPPERMINE RIVER TO FISH.
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WHEN AN INUK DIED, THE BODY
WOULD BE WRAPPED IN CARIBOU SKIN
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AND PLACED ON THIS ROCKY OUTCROP
TO BE RETURNED TO THE EARTH.
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WHEN THE MISSIONARIES ARRIVED,
THIS TRADITION CHANGED.
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THE DEAD WERE PUT IN COFFINS
AND BURIED ON AN ISLAND
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IN THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER.
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THERE WERE TWO GRAVEYARDS,
SIDE BY SIDE,
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ONE ANGLICAN,
ONE ROMAN CATHOLIC.
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HERE, AS IN OTHER SETTLEMENTS
ACROSS THE NORTH,
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THERE WAS CONFLICT.
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MISSIONARIES,
WHO WERE COMPETING FOR CONVERTS,
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ENCOURAGED PEOPLE
TO STAY NEAR THE SETTLEMENT.
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BUT THE TRADERS URGED THEM
TO SPREAD OUT ON THE LAND
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TO COLLECT THE PRECIOUS FURS.
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\"SCOTTY\" GALL
WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TRADERS
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IN THE NEW SETTLEMENT,
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AN APPRENTICE
GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER
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WITH THE HUDSON\'S BAY COMPANY.
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THE THING WAS THAT
WHOEVER BURIED THEM...
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THAT WAS THE GREAT RACE
THAT I UNDERSTAND.
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YOU DIDN\'T KNOW
WHETHER IT WAS AN ANGLICAN,
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OR WHETHER IT WAS AN RC,
BUT THE CHURCHES KNEW,
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AND ONE COULDN\'T BURY
THE OTHER ONE.
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IT WAS QUITE
A LITTLE COMMOTION THERE.
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[ NARRATOR ]: A FLU EPIDEMIC HAD
FORCED REVEREND HAROLD WEBSTER
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TO ABANDON THE MISSION
AT BERNARD HARBOUR.
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IN 1928, HE BUILT
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH
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NEAR THE MOUTH
OF THE COPPERMINE RIVER.
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THERE HAD BEEN SO MUCH SICKNESS
THAT IT WAS DECIDED
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THAT THE GOVERNMENT
WOULD SEND IN A DOCTOR,
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AND DR. MARTIN WAS CHOSEN.
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THE ONLY THING WAS,
THEY BUILT HIM A HOUSE
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AND A ROOM
WHERE HE COULD SEE PATIENTS,
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BUT THEY DIDN\'T SEND HIM
ANY MEDICAL SUPPLIES
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AND WHAT FEW HE HAD
DIDN\'T GO ANYWHERE.
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[ NARRATOR ]: IN 1929,
DR. RUSSELL MARTIN
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WAS HIRED AS A MEDICAL OFFICER,
GRADE ONE.
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THEY SAID, \"NOW, YOU WILL HAVE
TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT EYES
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BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THAT EYES
ARE A PROBLEM.\"
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I SUPPOSE IT WAS SNOWBLINDNESS
AND THAT SORT OF THING.
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AND THERE WAS ONE OTHER ITEM
THAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO GEN UP ON
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BUT NO ONE MENTIONED TB
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SO I HAD NO IDEA
WHAT I WAS GOING TO,
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EXCEPT THAT I WAS GOING
TO A PLACE CALLED COPPERMINE.
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[ NARRATOR ]: DR. MARTIN
WAS ONE OF FOUR DOCTORS
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HIRED BY THE DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR,
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NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
AND YUKON BRANCH,
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GOVERNMENT OF CANADA.
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THESE FOUR DOCTORS
WERE EXPECTED TO COVER
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THE ENTIRE CANADIAN ARCTIC.
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FROM COPPERMINE, DR. MARTIN
WOULD PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE
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AT NATIVE OUTPOST CAMPS
SPREAD THROUGHOUT A TERRITORY
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OF MORE THAN
250,000 SQUARE KILOMETRES,
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AN AREA AS LARGE
AS THE UNITED KINGDOM.
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HIS NEAREST COLLEAGUE,
DR. URQUHART,
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WAS STATIONED IN AKLAVIK,
OVER 1,000 KILOMETRES AWAY.
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DR. MARTIN ARRIVED ON THE
HUDSON\'S BAY COMPANY TRADE SHIP.
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IN AUGUST, 1929,
THEBAYCHIMOSTOPPED
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AT A PLACE
THE INUIT CALLED KUGLUKTUK.
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SOUTHERNERS NAMED IT
FORT HEARNE.
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LATER, IT WOULD BE KNOWN
AS COPPERMINE.
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ALSO ON BOARD
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WERE THREE CATHOLIC PRIESTS,
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OBLATES COMING
TO THE CENTRAL ARCTIC
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TO ESTABLISH A MISSION.
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A PREVIOUS ATTEMPT
HAD ENDED VIOLENTLY IN 1913
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WHEN FATHERS ROUVIERE AND LEROUX
WERE MURDERED
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SOUTH OF COPPERMINE
NEAR BLOODY FALLS.
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THE ARRIVAL IS RECORDED
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ON THE FIRST PAGE
OF THE MISSION\'S DAILY RECORD,
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THE CODEX HISTORICUS.
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[ PRIEST ]: AUGUST 23rd, 1929.
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WE FINALLY GET TO THE MOUTH
OF THE COPPERMINE.
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WHAT A CHANGE
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SINCE 1926.
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WHERE THERE WAS NOTHING BEFORE
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STANDS A BIG TRADING POST
OF THE HUDSON\'S BAY COMPANY
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AS WELL AS A PROTESTANT MISSION.
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TWO MINING COMPANIES,
A GOVERNMENT DOCTOR,
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AND THE CATHOLIC MISSION
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ALL UNLOAD
THEIR BUILDING SUPPLIES.
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THERE ARE LOTS OF ESKIMOS;
I KNOW SOME OF THEM.
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THEY ALL WELCOME US.
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WE BEGIN CONSTRUCTION
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OF A SHED
TO GIVE SHELTER
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BOTH TO OURSELVES
AND OUR WINTER SUPPLIES.
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[ NARRATOR ]: ANOTHER
MISSIONARY, REVEREND MERRITT,
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AN ANGLICAN MINISTER,
ARRIVED ON THEBAYCHIMO.
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HE REPLACED REVEREND WEBSTER,
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WHO HAD BUILT THE ANGLICAN
CHURCH THE PREVIOUS SUMMER.
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ALSO ON BOARD WERE SCOTTY GALL
OF THE HUDSON\'S BAY COMPANY
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AND AN INUK, ULUKSAK.
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ULUKSAK AND SINNISSIAK
HAD BEEN ARRESTED
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FOR MURDERING THE TWO
CATHOLIC PRIESTS IN 1913--
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THE FIRST INUIT CHARGED, TRIED,
AND CONVICTED OF MURDER
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UNDER BRITISH LAW.
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ALTHOUGH THEIR DEATH SENTENCE
WAS COMMUTED,
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ULUKSAK HAD CONTRACTED
SPINAL TUBERCULOSIS IN EDMONTON.
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BY 1929, HE WAS LAME
AND DESTITUTE, UNABLE TO WALK.
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HE HAD BEEN IN HOSPITAL
AT AKLAVIK,
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BUT IT WAS THE DOMINION
GOVERNMENT\'S POLICY TO PAY ONLY
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FOR THE CARE OF ACUTE CASES--
THOSE WHO COULD BE CURED.
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ULUKSAK WAS DIAGNOSED INCURABLE
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SO AT THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY,
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HE WAS SHIPPED HOME
TO COPPERMINE, TO DIE.
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[ DR. MARTIN ]: MEDICAL JOURNAL,
COPPERMINE RIVER, DR. MARTIN.
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ON ARRIVAL,
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NO ACTIVE SICKNESS
OF ANY SORT IS SEEN.
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ALL NATIVES APPEAR HEALTHY
AND THOSE REPORTED
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TO HAVE VENEREAL DISEASE
TWO YEARS PREVIOUSLY
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WERE FOUND TO BE FREE
FROM ANY SIGN OF THIS DISEASE.
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[ NARRATOR ]: CONSTRUCTION
OF A HOUSE FOR THE DOCTOR
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STARTED IMMEDIATELY.
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ONE ROOM WAS SET ASIDE
FOR PATIENTS.
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IN ADDITION TO
HIS MEDICAL DUTIES,
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DR. MARTIN WAS CORONER,
COMMISSIONER FOR OATHS,
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AND RESPONSIBLE FOR
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DISTRIBUTING RATIONS
TO THE DESTITUTE.
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HE HAD A BROADCAST RADIO SET--
HE PLANNED TO USE MORSE CODE
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TO SEND HIS REPORTS
BACK TO OTTAWA
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AND TO KEEP IN TOUCH
WITH DR. URQUHART IN AKLAVIK.
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ESTABLISHING SETTLEMENTS NOT
ONLY ALTERED THE NOMADIC ROUTES
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AND THE WAY OF LIFE
OF THE INUIT,
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INCREASINGLY,
WHEN THE SUPPLY BOATS CAME,
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PEOPLE BECAME SICK,
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EXPOSED TO DISEASES
FOR WHICH THEY HAD NO IMMUNITY.
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THEY CALLED IT SHIP\'S ILLNESS:
THE BOAT COLD.
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THE LOCAL WHITES AND THE NATIVES
TOOK AN ILLNESS...
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AFTER THE SHIP
HAD ACTUALLY GONE, IT DEVELOPED,
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WHICH LASTED OVER SEVERAL WEEKS
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AND SPREAD THROUGH
ALL THE PEOPLE,
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WHITE AND NATIVE,
IN THE AREA.
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[ PRIEST ]:
SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1929.
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SUNDAY.
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BECAUSE OF SICKNESS,
NO ONE COMES TO MASS.
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THE VILLAGE SEEMS VERY SAD.
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SEPTEMBER 24, 1929.
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THE ROOF IS FINISHED.
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DEATH OF ULUKSAK,
ONE OF THE KILLERS
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OF THE REVEREND FATHERS
ROUVIERE AND LEROUX.
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HE IS BURIED BY
THE PROTESTANT MINISTER,
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MR. MERRITT.
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[ NARRATOR ]:
THE EXPECTED RESULT
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OF CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE
WAS SHIP\'S ILLNESS,
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USUALLY DISEASES
LIKE MEASLES AND INFLUENZA.
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BUT ULUKSAK\'S ILLNESS
WAS MORE SERIOUS.
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HE HAD HIGHLY INFECTIOUS
MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS--
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GALLOPING CONSUMPTION.
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WHILE THE DOCTOR\'S HOUSE
WAS BEING BUILT,
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ULUKSAK LIVED WITH HIS FAMILY
IN A SKIN TENT.
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ALL THOSE AROUND HIM
WERE INFECTED.
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HIS DEATH FROM TUBERCULOSIS
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WAS THE FIRST RECORDED
IN THIS REGION.
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IN OTTAWA, THE DOCTOR\'S BOSS,
O.S. FINNIE,
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RECIEVED DR. MARTIN\'S
FIRST LETTER FROM COPPERMINE.
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[ MARTIN ]:
SEPTEMBER 30th, 1929.
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DEAR SIR,
I\'M SENDING THIS LETTER
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WITH PUNCH DICKENS,
WHO IS LEAVING SHORTLY.
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I AM NOW LIVING IN THE HOUSE,
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THOUGH ONLY THREE ROOMS
ARE READY FOR USE.
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THE BOAT COLDS ARE LASTING
A LONG TIME THIS YEAR
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AND MOST OF THE NATIVES
ARE STILL COUGHING.
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ULUKSAK, ONE OF THE MEN
WHO SHOT THE PRIESTS
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AND WHO CAME WITH ME
FROM AKLAVIK HOSPITAL,
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DIED A FEW DAYS AGO
FROM HIS SPINAL TUBERCULOSIS.
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THE BROADCAST RADIO
IS OUT OF COMMISSION.
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THIS MEANS THAT
I WILL NOT BE ABLE
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TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOU
TILL SPRING.
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R.D. MARTIN, MEDICAL OFFICER.
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18 YEARS EARLIER, IN 1911,
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ARCTIC EXPLORER
VILHALMUR STEFANSSON
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WAS THE THE FIRST OUTSIDER
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TO LIVE WITH THE COPPER INUIT.
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RETURNING SOUTH IN 1912,
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STEFANSSON RECOMMENDED
CONTROVERSIAL MEASURES
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TO SAFEGUARD
THESE ISOLATED PEOPLE
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OF THE CORONATION GULF.
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14 MONTHS LATER, ON THE WAY
TO HIS SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION,
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STEFANSSON WROTE TO
PRIME MINISTER ROBERT L. BORDEN
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TO EXPLAIN HIS PLAN.
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THERE HAD BEEN
VIOLENT OPPOSITION
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FROM NEWSPAPERS AND CLERGY
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WHO FELT STEFANSSON WANTED
TO KEEP OUT ALL MISSIONARIES,
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INDEED, ALL WHITE PEOPLE.
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STEFANSSON TOLD
THE PRIME MINISTER
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THAT WHAT HE PROPOSED
WAS A MEDICAL AUTHORITY
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THAT WOULD ALLOW INTO
THE TERRITORY
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ONLY THOSE
WHO WERE FREE OF DISEASE.
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TRADERS, WHALERS, MISSIONARIES
AND SCIENTISTS--
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ANYONE GOING INTO THIS TERRITORY
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WOULD HAVE TO SATISFY
THESE REQUIREMENTS.
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HIS LETTER ENDS
WITH THIS STATEMENT--
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\"THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT
THE CORONATION GULF ESKIMOS
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\"NEED PROTECTION, FOR THEY ARE
TODAY FREER FROM SERIOUS DISEASE
00:13:19.792 --> 00:13:23.959
THAN ANY OTHER PEOPLE
OF CANADA.\"
00:13:29.709 --> 00:13:32.333
DIAMOND JENNESS,
A CANADIAN ETHNOLOGIST,
00:13:32.333 --> 00:13:35.542
WAS A MEMBER OF
THE SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
00:13:35.542 --> 00:13:37.792
HIS GROUP TRAVELLED
ALONG THE COAST
00:13:37.792 --> 00:13:42.333
FROM ALASKA TO BERNARD HARBOUR,
AT THE WESTERN END
00:13:42.333 --> 00:13:44.999
OF THE CORONATION GULF.
00:13:47.667 --> 00:13:48.583
THERE HE MET
00:13:48.583 --> 00:13:51.999
ONE OF THE COPPER INUIT LEADERS,
IKPAKHUAK,
00:13:51.999 --> 00:13:53.125
AND HIS FAMILY:
00:13:53.125 --> 00:13:57.250
A DAUGHTER, KENNEYUK;
A SON, AVRANNA;
00:13:57.250 --> 00:13:59.333
AND IKPAKHUAK\'S WIFE, HIGILAK.
00:13:59.333 --> 00:14:01.875
SHE WAS AN ANGAKOK--A SHAMAN
00:14:01.875 --> 00:14:05.999
WHOSE INSIGHTS DETERMINED WHERE
THE FAMILY FISHED AND HUNTED.
00:14:05.999 --> 00:14:11.125
SHE ALSO HAD THE POWER
TO TREAT AND HEAL THE SICK.
00:14:11.125 --> 00:14:13.458
JENNESS DESCRIBED THE ANGAKOKS
00:14:13.458 --> 00:14:17.959
AS \"THE PHYSICIANS,
THE PROPHETS AND THE PRIESTS
00:14:17.959 --> 00:14:20.999
OF THEIR LITTLE COMMUNITIES.\"
00:14:24.750 --> 00:14:26.333
FOR EIGHT MONTHS,
JENNESS TRAVELLED
00:14:26.333 --> 00:14:29.875
WITH IKPAKHUAK\'S FAMILY
ON THEIR NOMADIC HUNTING ROUTE.
00:14:29.875 --> 00:14:31.999
HE WAS ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY.
00:14:31.999 --> 00:14:34.875
KENNEYUK, JENNESS\'S
NEW 12-YEAR-OLD SISTER,
00:14:34.875 --> 00:14:37.166
SEWED FOR HIM
AND HELPED WITH HIS DOGS.
00:14:37.166 --> 00:14:41.542
SHE WAS GIVEN THE NICKNAME
\"JENNIE\" IN HIS HONOUR.
00:14:41.542 --> 00:14:44.333
AS AN ETHNOLOGIST,
JENNESS WAS HERE
00:14:44.333 --> 00:14:47.417
TO DOCUMENT THE LIVES
OF THESE ISOLATED PEOPLE.
00:14:47.417 --> 00:14:49.999
MOTION PICTURES
AND PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN.
00:14:49.999 --> 00:14:52.999
HE RECORDED LANGUAGE AND SONGS--
00:14:52.999 --> 00:14:57.709
JENNIE\'S VOICE WAS CAPTURED
ON A WAX CYLINDER.
00:14:57.709 --> 00:15:00.999
[ JENNIE SINGING NATIVE SONG ]
00:15:29.250 --> 00:15:32.792
JENNESS HAD A FIRST-AID KIT
AND TREATED INJURIES.
00:15:32.792 --> 00:15:35.999
HIGILAK, THE ANGAKOK,
WAS IMPRESSED WITH HIS POWERS.
00:15:35.999 --> 00:15:38.999
JENNESS COULD PROTECT THE FAMILY
FROM DISEASE.
00:15:38.999 --> 00:15:43.542
IN YEARS TO COME,
THEY WOULD CALL ON HIS HELP.
00:15:49.667 --> 00:15:51.834
LIKE STEFANSSON,
JENNESS RETURNED SOUTH
00:15:51.834 --> 00:15:56.250
TO RECOMMEND THAT ALL NEWCOMERS
TO THE COPPER INUIT TERRITORY
00:15:56.250 --> 00:15:58.999
BE CLEARED BY A MEDICAL DOCTOR.
00:15:58.999 --> 00:16:00.917
BUT IT WAS NOT TO BE.
00:16:00.917 --> 00:16:04.417
SOON, TRADERS EXCHANGED FURS
FOR BULLETS AND RIFLES.
00:16:04.417 --> 00:16:07.500
ONE MAN WITH A RIFLE
COULD KILL MORE GAME
00:16:07.500 --> 00:16:10.333
THAN A FAMILY
USING BOWS AND ARROWS.
00:16:10.333 --> 00:16:14.834
MISSIONARIES TOOK THE PLACE
OF THE ANGAKOKS,
00:16:14.834 --> 00:16:18.125
THE SPIRITUAL LEADERS
AND THE HEALERS OF THE SICK,
00:16:18.125 --> 00:16:21.750
AND THEIR PRACTICES
WERE FORCED UNDERGROUND.
00:17:20.458 --> 00:17:25.166
IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS THAT
DR. MARTIN WAS IN COPPERMINE,
00:17:25.166 --> 00:17:28.999
THERE HAD BEEN ONE DEATH
FROM TUBERCULOSIS--ULUKSAK.
00:17:28.999 --> 00:17:30.417
BUT NOW, EARLY IN 1930,
00:17:30.417 --> 00:17:33.792
THERE WERE INDICATIONS
THAT THE DISEASE HAD SPREAD.
00:17:33.792 --> 00:17:38.999
PEOPLE WHO HAD LEFT COPPERMINE
IN THE FALL WERE NOW RETURNING.
00:17:38.999 --> 00:17:42.291
[ MARTIN ]: FEBRUARY, 1930--
MEDICAL JOURNAL.
00:17:42.291 --> 00:17:47.917
THE KUGARUAK GROUP OF ABOUT
150 PEOPLE CAME OFF THE LAND.
00:17:47.917 --> 00:17:49.999
ONE MAN IS DYING OF ENTERITIS,
00:17:49.999 --> 00:17:53.792
THREE ADULTS AND ONE CHILD
HAVE PULMONARY TB.
00:17:53.792 --> 00:17:57.375
THERE WAS ONE CASE
OF SPINAL TB.
00:17:57.375 --> 00:17:59.999
OF THESE, FOUR HAVE DIED.
00:17:59.999 --> 00:18:04.917
THE CASE OF SPINAL TUBERCULOSIS
IS RECUPERATING IN HOSPITAL.
00:18:04.917 --> 00:18:08.999
[ NARRATOR ]: DR. MARTIN
HAD CARIBOU-SKIN CLOTHING SEWN.
00:18:08.999 --> 00:18:10.458
HE ASSEMBLED A DOG TEAM,
00:18:10.458 --> 00:18:13.458
CAUGHT AND STORED
FIVE TONS OF FISH TO FEED THEM.
00:18:13.458 --> 00:18:16.000
FROM LATE OCTOBER
TO THE END OF APRIL,
00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:18.999
INUIT LIVED ON THE SEA ICE
HUNTING SEALS.
00:18:18.999 --> 00:18:22.291
WITH THE DOG TEAM,
THE DOCTOR WAS ABLE TO TRAVEL
00:18:22.291 --> 00:18:27.999
TO THESE NATIVE OUTPOST CAMPS
TO TREAT ANY WHO WERE SICK.
00:19:17.125 --> 00:19:19.959
DR. MARTIN WAS USING
ARMY EQUIPMENT
00:19:19.959 --> 00:19:22.000
LEFT OVER FROM WORLD WAR I.
00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:24.709
[ SCOTTY GALL ]:
HIS EQUIPMENT WAS, UH...
00:19:24.709 --> 00:19:27.125
EVEN, IT WAS A JOKE TO ME
00:19:27.125 --> 00:19:30.458
BECAUSE IT WAS
BIG TRUNKS OF STUFF.
00:19:30.458 --> 00:19:32.083
AT THAT TIME YOU HAD,
00:19:32.083 --> 00:19:35.166
THE GOVERNMENT
HAD A BIG CROWN STAMP
00:19:35.166 --> 00:19:37.625
THAT THEY HAD
FOR ARMY EQUIPMENT.
00:19:37.625 --> 00:19:40.999
THIS IS WHAT HE HAD--
SOME OF THIS STUFF.
00:19:40.999 --> 00:19:42.959
TO HIM, IT WAS DATED.
00:19:42.959 --> 00:19:45.250
HE WAS, OF COURSE, IN 1929.
00:19:45.250 --> 00:19:47.125
HE WAS A MODERN DOCTOR
00:19:47.125 --> 00:19:50.458
AND HE WAS DEALING
WITH OLD-TIME...
00:19:50.458 --> 00:19:53.792
TO HIM, IT WAS DATED.
00:19:57.625 --> 00:19:59.999
[ HARRY TALGITOK ]:
00:20:12.041 --> 00:20:15.166
AND UH, HE LIKED TRAVELLING,
00:20:15.166 --> 00:20:17.458
HE WANTED TO TRAVEL MORE,
00:20:17.458 --> 00:20:21.999
HE WANTED TO BE ABLE TO TAKE
DOG TRIPS AND GO...
00:20:21.999 --> 00:20:26.417
AND HE WANTED TO KNOW
IN CASE HE EVER GOT CAUGHT
00:20:26.417 --> 00:20:30.458
WITHOUT ANY NATIVE HELP,
HOW TO BUILD A SNOW HOUSE,
00:20:30.458 --> 00:20:31.375
HOW TO TAKE SHELTER...
00:20:31.375 --> 00:20:35.250
HE WAS VERY INTERESTED IN
HOW WE COOKED ON THE TRAIL,
00:20:35.250 --> 00:20:39.999
AND OF COURSE, BEING A DOCTOR,
HE EXPERIMENTED IN PROTEIN.
00:20:39.999 --> 00:20:43.792
HE WANTED TO EAT FOX MEAT,
AND HE TRIED LEMMING,
00:20:43.792 --> 00:20:46.500
HE TRIED THEM ALL,
AND, OF COURSE
00:20:46.500 --> 00:20:51.917
WE FED HIM ALL THE THINGS TO HIM
WE COULD GET.
00:20:58.959 --> 00:21:01.250
[ NARRATOR ]: WESTERN PATROL
TO PIERCE POINT.
00:21:01.250 --> 00:21:03.999
500 KILOMETRES FROM COPPERMINE.
00:21:03.999 --> 00:21:05.999
IT\'S BEEN OVER SIX MONTHS
00:21:05.999 --> 00:21:10.999
SINCE DR. MARTIN COULD
COMMUNICATE WITH OTTAWA.
00:21:10.999 --> 00:21:15.083
[ MARTIN ]: MARCH THE 12th,
1930, PIERCE POINT.
00:21:15.083 --> 00:21:16.166
DEAR SIR,
00:21:16.166 --> 00:21:19.125
AT PRESENT,
I SPEND TOO MUCH TIME
00:21:19.125 --> 00:21:21.917
IN TRAVELLING
FROM PLACE TO PLACE,
00:21:21.917 --> 00:21:23.667
PERHAPS SEEING A PATIENT ONCE
00:21:23.667 --> 00:21:26.792
AND THEN NOT AGAIN
FOR A YEAR OR MORE.
00:21:26.792 --> 00:21:28.041
EVEN WITH CONTINUOUS
TRAVELLING,
00:21:28.041 --> 00:21:30.834
THE WHOLE DISTRICT
AND ITS INHABITANTS
00:21:30.834 --> 00:21:32.917
CANNOT BE VISITED IN A YEAR,
00:21:32.917 --> 00:21:36.333
AND MEANWHILE, PATIENTS
AT THE BASE ARE NEGLECTED.
00:21:36.333 --> 00:21:37.709
IT LOOKS WELL ON PAPER
00:21:37.709 --> 00:21:40.792
TO SAY THE DOCTOR
HAS TRAVELLED SO FAR BY DOGS,
00:21:40.792 --> 00:21:44.125
BUT IT IS OF LITTLE BENEFIT
TO THE NATIVES,
00:21:44.125 --> 00:21:45.083
AND NOT ECONOMIC.
00:21:45.083 --> 00:21:48.291
AT PRESENT, NO URGENT CASES
CAN BE DEALT WITH,
00:21:48.291 --> 00:21:51.417
THE NEWS OF A DEATH
ON VICTORIA ISLAND
00:21:51.417 --> 00:21:53.999
OR ON THE LAND
BEING THE FIRST
00:21:53.999 --> 00:21:58.333
THE DOCTOR HEARS OF ILL-HEALTH
AND CASES CANNOT BE FOLLOWED UP.
00:21:58.333 --> 00:22:02.166
WITH A PLANE, REALLY VALUABLE
WORK COULD BE PERFORMED,
00:22:02.166 --> 00:22:04.917
AND BOTH HOSPITAL
AND OUTSIDE WORK
00:22:04.917 --> 00:22:06.999
WOULD BE ATTENDED TO PROPERLY.
00:22:06.999 --> 00:22:10.000
I\'VE BEEN LOOKING AFTER
THE DESTITUTE RATIONS
00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:12.999
SINCE MY ARRIVAL,
AND MY POLICY HAS BEEN
00:22:12.999 --> 00:22:17.166
ONLY TO GIVE THE FULL RATION
IN A FEW CASES,
00:22:17.166 --> 00:22:19.125
WHERE IT SEEMED
REALLY NECESSARY.
00:22:19.125 --> 00:22:21.875
I\'M SORRY THIS IS NOT
TYPEWRITTEN,
00:22:21.875 --> 00:22:24.083
BUT PIERCE POINT HAS NO MACHINE.
00:22:24.083 --> 00:22:28.083
YOURS RESPECTFULLY,
R.D. MARTIN, M.B.
00:22:28.083 --> 00:22:32.458
[ NARRATOR ]: AT PIERCE POINT,
THE DOCTOR MET IKPAKHUAK,
00:22:32.458 --> 00:22:33.583
WHO, WITH HIS FAMILY,
00:22:33.583 --> 00:22:36.750
HAD ADOPTED THE ETHNOLOGIST
DIAMOND JENNESS
00:22:36.750 --> 00:22:38.000
16 YEARS EARLIER.
00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:39.875
IN HONOUR OF THEIR ARRIVAL,
00:22:39.875 --> 00:22:45.750
IKPAKHUAK AND HIS FAMILY BUILT
A LARGE IGLOO FOR A CELEBRATION.
00:22:46.999 --> 00:22:50.999
IKPAKHUAK\'S DAUGHTER,
\"JENNIE\" KENNEYUK, NOW 28,
00:22:50.999 --> 00:22:52.458
IS MARRIED TO KHEKPAK.
00:22:52.458 --> 00:22:55.333
THEY HAVE A 1-YEAR-OLD BOY,
AHEGONA.
00:22:55.333 --> 00:23:01.999
JENNIE IS TOO SICK
TO ATTEND THE CELEBRATION.
00:23:32.125 --> 00:23:36.959
THE NEXT DAY, DR. MARTIN VISITED
JENNIE KENNEKYUK.
00:23:36.959 --> 00:23:39.041
SHE HAS SPINAL TUBERCULOSIS.
00:23:39.041 --> 00:23:40.542
SHE IS UNABLE TO WALK.
00:23:40.542 --> 00:23:43.999
DR. MARTIN CONVINCED HER FAMILY
TO RETURN TO COPPERMINE
00:23:43.999 --> 00:23:47.917
SO HE COULD CARE FOR JENNIE
AT THE MEDICAL STATION.
00:23:47.917 --> 00:23:52.667
THE SLEDS WERE PACKED,
AND THEY STARTED THE LONG TRIP.
00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:03.999
[ HELEN HONILAK ]:
00:24:28.083 --> 00:24:31.542
[ MARTIN ]: MEDICAL JOURNAL,
APRIL 1930.
00:24:31.542 --> 00:24:33.959
THE WESTERN PATROL
TO PIERCE POINT
00:24:33.959 --> 00:24:37.000
AND SOUTHERN VICTORIA ISLAND
MADE IN LATE WINTER
00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.125
REVEALED TWO CASES
OF SPINAL TUBERCULOSIS
00:24:40.125 --> 00:24:43.333
AND ONE INFECTION
OF THE JAW BONE.
00:24:43.333 --> 00:24:46.250
ONE OF THESE HAS DIED SINCE.
00:24:46.250 --> 00:24:49.999
[ NARRATOR ]: JENNIE KENNEYUK
SURVIVED THE JOURNEY.
00:24:49.999 --> 00:24:55.250
AT COPPERMINE, SHE JOINED
THE GROWING NUMBER OF SICK.
00:24:55.250 --> 00:24:58.999
REVEREND MERRITT
NOTED IN HIS DIARY,
00:24:58.999 --> 00:25:02.999
\"JENNIE, KHEKPAK, AND AHEGONA
ARRIVE AT 10:00 P.M.
00:25:02.999 --> 00:25:04.959
JENNIE IS SICK.\"
00:25:04.959 --> 00:25:06.667
EVEN THOUGH REVEREND MERRITT
00:25:06.667 --> 00:25:09.583
IS SUFFERING WITH
CANCER OF THE THROAT,
00:25:09.583 --> 00:25:12.375
HE VISITS JENNIE
AND HER FAMILY EVERY DAY.
00:25:12.375 --> 00:25:16.625
ON SUNDAY, MAY 18th, 1930,
REVEREND MERRRITT BAPTIZES
00:25:16.625 --> 00:25:22.999
SAMUEL KHEKPAK, AIME AHEGONA,
AND JENNIE KENNEYUK.
00:25:25.625 --> 00:25:27.999
[ MARTIN ]: MEDICAL JOURNAL,
DR. MARTIN.
00:25:27.999 --> 00:25:31.999
THE EASTERN PATROL TO
CAMBRIDGE BAY IN APRIL AND MAY
00:25:31.999 --> 00:25:33.583
SHOWED ONE BATHURST INLET NATIVE
00:25:33.583 --> 00:25:38.333
WITH ABDOMINAL TUBERCULOSIS,
AND AT CAMBRIDGE BAY,
00:25:38.333 --> 00:25:39.999
ONE CASE OF PULMONARY TB
00:25:39.999 --> 00:25:43.375
AND AN ADVANCED CASE
OF BONE TUBERCULOSIS.
00:25:43.375 --> 00:25:45.959
ALL THESE HAVE SINCE DIED.
00:25:45.959 --> 00:25:47.583
[ MARTIN ]: SO AT THAT TIME
00:25:47.583 --> 00:25:51.750
THERE WASN\'T A WIRELESS
TRANSMITTER IN COPPERMINE.
00:25:51.750 --> 00:25:56.999
I WENT PRIMARILY TO GET TO
BATHURST INLET TO BE ABLE
00:25:56.999 --> 00:26:01.625
TO SEND A MESSAGE,
AND I WENT TO CAMBRIDGE BAY--
00:26:01.625 --> 00:26:05.999
I THINK I SENT A MESSAGE THEN
AND I WENT
00:26:05.999 --> 00:26:08.500
BACK TO BATHURST AND SENT
00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:09.917
ANOTHER MESSAGE
00:26:09.917 --> 00:26:12.250
AND HAD HOPED
TO GET A MESSAGE.
00:26:12.250 --> 00:26:14.208
AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER,
00:26:14.208 --> 00:26:18.250
I SAID WE\'VE GOT A SERIOUS
EPIDEMIC OF TUBERCULOSIS
00:26:18.250 --> 00:26:22.917
AND WE\'VE NOTHING...
NO MEANS OF DEALING WITH IT.
00:26:22.917 --> 00:26:29.875
AND I ASKED THEM FOR HELP
IN THE FORM OF A LAMP
00:26:29.875 --> 00:26:34.750
AND I SUGGESTED IN FUTURE
THEY WOULD NEED TO HAVE
00:26:34.750 --> 00:26:40.792
SOME FORM OF NURSING
AND MORE HOSPITAL BEDS.
00:26:40.792 --> 00:26:44.999
\"PLEASE SEND SUN LAMP, WHICH
I WILL PAY FOR IF NECESSARY.
00:26:44.999 --> 00:26:45.542
\"STOP.
00:26:45.542 --> 00:26:49.250
\"ALSO SEND AS MUCH FOOD,
HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT AS POSSIBLE
00:26:49.250 --> 00:26:53.667
\"AS PATIENTS
WILL HAVE TO BE CARED FOR.
00:26:53.667 --> 00:26:55.417
DR. MARTIN.\"
00:26:55.417 --> 00:27:01.959
I GOT NO REPLY
WHEN THE FIRST...
00:27:01.959 --> 00:27:08.999
THIS WAS IN EARLY SPRING
WHEN I GOT BACK TO COPPERMINE.
00:27:08.999 --> 00:27:15.625
THE FIRST PLANES ARRIVED
NOT SO LONG AFTERWARDS
00:27:15.625 --> 00:27:19.709
AND I EXPECTED TO GET
AT LEAST A LAMP,
00:27:19.709 --> 00:27:25.041
BUT NOTHING ARRIVED
AND NO WORD ARRIVED.
00:27:26.083 --> 00:27:29.917
[ NARRATOR ]: BUT MORE
SICK PEOPLE ARRIVED.
00:27:29.917 --> 00:27:32.500
IN THE SPRING, THE PEOPLE
RETURNED TO COPPERMINE
00:27:32.500 --> 00:27:35.208
FROM CAMPS ON THE SEA ICE,
AND MANY WERE SICK.
00:27:35.208 --> 00:27:40.041
WALTER TOPILAK,
JENNIE KENNEYUK\'S COUSIN,
00:27:40.041 --> 00:27:44.875
WAS SO SICK HE COULD NOT FEED
HIS DOGS.
00:28:02.917 --> 00:28:07.291
THE ONLY THING YOU COULD DO
WAS TO ISOLATE THEM.
00:28:07.291 --> 00:28:11.500
BUT SINCE WE HAD NO
PROPER FACILITIES,
00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:13.458
WE COULDN\'T DO THAT.
00:28:13.458 --> 00:28:17.999
WE COULDN\'T DO
WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE DONE,
00:28:17.999 --> 00:28:20.999
AND ISOLATE THEM.
00:28:28.999 --> 00:28:32.583
[ NARRATOR ]: THE MOST
VULNERABLE WERE THE CHILDREN.
00:28:32.583 --> 00:28:35.500
THEY DIED FIRST.
00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:40.458
[ PRIEST ]: JUNE 9, 1930.
00:28:40.458 --> 00:28:42.458
VISIT TO A SICK BABY.
00:28:42.458 --> 00:28:45.917
IT WAS BROUGHT HERE
IN A DYING STATE BY OKARNAK.
00:28:45.917 --> 00:28:50.000
I ASKED FOR PERMISSION TO
BAPTIZE IT BUT WAS TOLD FIRMLY
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:52.999
THAT THE MINISTER
WOULD LOOK AFTER THAT.
00:28:52.999 --> 00:28:55.999
I\'LL HAVE TO BE CONTENT
WITH A PRAYER TO GOD
00:28:55.999 --> 00:29:00.542
THAT HE NOT LET THE LITTLE ONE
DIE WITHOUT BAPTISM.
00:29:00.542 --> 00:29:00.875
JUNE 11.
00:29:01.458 --> 00:29:05.583
THE NATIVES CAME TO TELL ME
OF THE BABY\'S DEATH,
00:29:05.583 --> 00:29:06.125
WITHOUT BAPTISM.
00:29:06.125 --> 00:29:11.458
THE MINISTER DOESN\'T BELIEVE
IN THE NEED FOR INFANT BAPTISM.
00:29:11.458 --> 00:29:15.750
I WENT TO SEE THE BODY
AND, USING A SMALL MIRROR,
00:29:15.750 --> 00:29:18.125
PROVED BOTH TO MYSELF
AND THE CROWD
00:29:18.125 --> 00:29:20.999
THAT THE CHILD
WAS STILL BREATHING.
00:29:20.999 --> 00:29:22.083
THEN I BAPTIZED HIM.
00:29:22.083 --> 00:29:25.542
LITTLE ANGEL IN THE SKY,
PRAY FOR US.
00:29:25.542 --> 00:29:30.333
AFTERWARDS, THERE WAS
QUITE A HEATED ARGUMENT
00:29:30.333 --> 00:29:31.458
WITH THE MINISTER.
00:29:31.458 --> 00:29:36.417
HE CLAIMED THE BODY BECAUSE
HE HAD TAKEN CARE OF THE CHILD
00:29:36.417 --> 00:29:38.000
WHEN IT WAS STILL ALIVE.
00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:39.875
WITHOUT GIVING ANY GROUND,
I ADVISED HIM
00:29:39.875 --> 00:29:43.917
THAT HE COULD HAVE THE BODY
IF THE PARENTS INSISTED ON IT,
00:29:43.917 --> 00:29:47.999
BUT THAT THE CHILD\'S SOUL
WAS ALREADY IN THE RIGHT PLACE
00:29:47.999 --> 00:29:52.417
DUE TO THE WORK
OF THE CATHOLIC MISSIONARY.
00:29:52.417 --> 00:29:53.999
FATHER FALAISE?
00:29:53.999 --> 00:29:57.999
WELL, HE WAS AN AGGRESSIVE MAN.
00:29:57.999 --> 00:30:02.999
HE WAS OUT TO GET
AS MANY CONVERTS AS HE COULD
00:30:02.999 --> 00:30:04.583
FOR HIS CHURCH.
00:30:04.583 --> 00:30:09.250
AND I THINK THAT\'S ALL
I CAN SAY ABOUT HIM.
00:30:09.250 --> 00:30:12.792
OH, NO FRIENDLINESS AT ALL.
00:30:12.792 --> 00:30:16.999
THE CATHOLIC CHAP
WAS DIFFICULT ANYWAY,
00:30:16.999 --> 00:30:21.999
I THINK, BUT THERE CERTAINLY
WAS NO COMING AND GOING
00:30:21.999 --> 00:30:25.458
BECAUSE THEY WERE COMPETING
FOR THE SAME PEOPLE
00:30:25.458 --> 00:30:30.125
AND THE ANGLICANS
HAD BEEN THERE FOR A LONG TIME
00:30:30.125 --> 00:30:32.999
AND THE CATHOLICS
HADN\'T BEEN THERE
00:30:32.999 --> 00:30:36.959
FOR ABOUT 10 OR 15 YEARS.
00:30:36.959 --> 00:30:41.083
THESE PEOPLE EACH HAD
THEIR POINT OF VIEW
00:30:41.083 --> 00:30:43.583
AND, UH,
THERE WAS DEFINITELY, THE...
00:30:43.583 --> 00:30:46.417
SOME OF THE NATIVES
COULDN\'T UNDERSTAND IT,
00:30:46.417 --> 00:30:50.083
HOW IT WAS THE ONE CREATOR
AND THE DIFFERENT VIEWS.
00:30:50.083 --> 00:30:53.250
IT WAS HARD FOR THEM
TO STOMACH THIS.
00:30:53.250 --> 00:30:56.166
I NEVER GOT MUCH INVOLVED IN IT.
00:30:56.166 --> 00:30:58.333
THEY CAN\'T ACCUSE ME
OF THAT ONE.
00:30:58.333 --> 00:31:02.166
[ PRIEST ]: THESE EVENTS
WILL LIKELY PUSH PEOPLE
00:31:02.166 --> 00:31:04.792
TO CHOOSE FOR ONE SIDE
OR THE OTHER.
00:31:04.792 --> 00:31:10.041
OUR SIDE HAS SHOWN ITSELF TO BE
THE MORE RESOLUTE AND HELPFUL.
00:31:10.041 --> 00:31:13.000
SOME NATIVES CAME IN
FROM BLOODY FALLS
00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:15.834
AND TOLD US OF SEVERAL
SICK PEOPLE THERE.
00:31:15.834 --> 00:31:20.208
THE DOCTOR ASKED TO BORROW OUR
ENGINE IN ORDER TO VISIT THEM,
00:31:20.208 --> 00:31:22.709
BUT WE SAID
HE COULDN\'T HAVE IT
00:31:22.709 --> 00:31:25.625
BECAUSE IT\'S TOO COLD
FOR THE MOTOR.
00:31:25.625 --> 00:31:27.417
[ MARTIN ]:
MEDICAL JOURNAL, DR. MARTIN.
00:31:27.417 --> 00:31:30.999
WHILE MOST OF THE NATIVE
MEDICINE MEN ARE FRIENDLY,
00:31:30.999 --> 00:31:32.999
TWO OF THEM OBSTRUCTED ME
ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS
00:31:32.999 --> 00:31:37.041
BY PLAYING ON SUPERSTITIONS AND
INFLUENCED SOME OF THE NATIVES
00:31:37.041 --> 00:31:39.458
TO KEEP AWAY FROM
THE MEDICAL STATION.
00:31:39.458 --> 00:31:41.208
WHERE POSSIBLE,
ACUTELY INFECTED CASES
00:31:41.208 --> 00:31:46.375
ARE ISOLATED FROM THEIR FAMILIES
IN MY HOUSE OR IN THE TENTS,
00:31:46.375 --> 00:31:49.750
BUT AS THE MORTALITY RATE
AMONGST THOSE BROUGHT TO ME
00:31:49.750 --> 00:31:52.208
WAS AS HIGH
AS THOSE LEFT AT HOME,
00:31:52.208 --> 00:31:55.458
IT WAS DIFFICULT
TO EXPLAIN TO THE PEOPLE
00:31:55.458 --> 00:31:56.250
THE VALUE OF ISOLATION
00:31:56.250 --> 00:31:59.792
WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO PREVENT
THE SPREAD OF THE INFECTION.
00:31:59.792 --> 00:32:03.999
[ NARRATOR ]: ON JULY 10th,
REVEREND MERRITT LEFT COPPERMINE
00:32:03.999 --> 00:32:06.333
FOR TREATMENT
OF HIS THROAT CANCER.
00:32:06.333 --> 00:32:09.291
HE WAS REPLACED
BY REVEREND HAROLD WEBSTER,
00:32:09.291 --> 00:32:11.999
WHO HAD BUILT THE CHURCH
TWO SUMMERS EARLIER.
00:32:11.999 --> 00:32:16.291
BY THE SUMMER, A WIRELESS RADIO
STATION WAS BUILT AT COPPERMINE.
00:32:16.291 --> 00:32:19.999
THE DOCTOR NO LONGER
HAD TO TRAVEL 500 KILOMETRES
00:32:19.999 --> 00:32:20.999
TO THE NEAREST RADIO.
00:32:20.999 --> 00:32:25.125
STILL, HE FELT THE MESSAGES
HE WAS SENDING TO OTTAWA
00:32:25.125 --> 00:32:27.999
ABOUT THE EPIDEMIC
OF TUBERCULOSIS
00:32:27.999 --> 00:32:30.458
WERE NOT BEING HEARD.
00:32:32.709 --> 00:32:34.125
[ MARTIN ]: SEPTEMBER 6, 1930.
00:32:34.125 --> 00:32:36.166
COPPERMINE,
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES.
00:32:36.166 --> 00:32:37.250
DEAR SIR,
00:32:37.250 --> 00:32:39.375
IN PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS
TO YOU
00:32:39.375 --> 00:32:41.208
I MENTIONED THERE WOULD BE
00:32:41.208 --> 00:32:42.250
SEVERAL BED-RIDDEN PATIENTS
00:32:42.250 --> 00:32:45.999
WHO WOULD REQUIRE INDOOR SHELTER
AND TREATMENT THIS WINTER,
00:32:45.999 --> 00:32:48.834
INCLUDING FOUR CASES
OF SPINAL TUBERCULOSIS.
00:32:48.834 --> 00:32:52.542
SINCE THEN, THE PROBLEM
HAS BECOME MORE SERIOUS
00:32:52.542 --> 00:32:53.792
AS THERE HAVE BEEN
00:32:53.792 --> 00:32:57.500
A NUMBER OF CASES
OF GENERALIZED, MENINGEAL
00:32:57.500 --> 00:32:59.709
AND LUNG TUBERCULOSIS.
00:32:59.709 --> 00:33:00.792
IN ONE FAMILY,
00:33:00.792 --> 00:33:04.333
A MAN LOST HIS WIFE,
TWO CHILDREN, AND TWO NEPHEWS
00:33:04.333 --> 00:33:06.667
WITHIN A PERIOD OF SIX WEEKS
00:33:06.667 --> 00:33:08.667
AND THERE ARE OTHER
SIMILAR INSTANCES.
00:33:08.667 --> 00:33:12.999
IN THIS COMMUNITY, TUBERCULOSIS
CAN BE CONSIDERED EPIDEMIC.
00:33:12.999 --> 00:33:14.999
YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT,
00:33:14.999 --> 00:33:17.041
R.D. MARTIN, M.D.
00:33:17.041 --> 00:33:18.999
[ NARRATOR ]:
WITH WINTER COMING ON,
00:33:18.999 --> 00:33:22.417
DR. MARTIN DESPERATELY NEEDED
MORE INDOOR SPACE
00:33:22.417 --> 00:33:24.834
TO ISOLATE THE VERY SICK.
00:33:24.834 --> 00:33:25.417
THE MANAGER
00:33:25.417 --> 00:33:29.291
OF THE NORTHERN AERIAL
MINERAL EXPLORATION COMPANY
00:33:29.291 --> 00:33:33.625
OFFERED TO SELL THEIR
14-BY-18-FOOT BUILDING FOR $500.
00:33:33.625 --> 00:33:34.999
BECAUSE IT WAS NECESSARY
00:33:34.999 --> 00:33:37.417
TO COME TO
AN IMMEDIATE DECISION,
00:33:37.417 --> 00:33:39.208
DR. MARTIN PURCHASED
THE BUILDING
00:33:39.208 --> 00:33:44.999
ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT,
SUBJECT TO ACCEPTANCE IN OTTAWA.
00:33:44.999 --> 00:33:47.999
OTHER MESSAGES WERE SENT
TO OTTAWA.
00:33:47.999 --> 00:33:49.709
IKPAKHUAK SENT A TELEGRAM
00:33:49.709 --> 00:33:52.166
TO HIS ADOPTED SON,
DIAMOND JENNESS,
00:33:52.166 --> 00:33:57.999
NOW THE CHIEF OF ANTHROPOLOGY
AT THE CANADIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM.
00:33:57.999 --> 00:34:02.999
\"JENNIE, YOUR SISTER,
IS MARRIED AND HAS A SON.
00:34:02.999 --> 00:34:04.417
\"BUT I AM GROWING OLD.
00:34:04.417 --> 00:34:08.583
\"COME BACK AND STAY WITH ME
ONCE MORE BEFORE I DIE.
00:34:08.583 --> 00:34:09.750
\"I HAVE NO GUN.
00:34:09.750 --> 00:34:13.041
\"WHILE I\'M ALIVE
I WANT TO SEE YOU.
00:34:13.041 --> 00:34:14.999
IKPAKHUAK.\"
00:34:14.999 --> 00:34:16.333
JENNIE, NOW 28,
00:34:16.333 --> 00:34:19.458
ALSO SENDS A MESSAGE
TO HER BROTHER JENNESS.
00:34:19.458 --> 00:34:23.999
\"IF YOU ARE COMING,
I WILL MAKE A PARKA FOR YOU.
00:34:23.999 --> 00:34:25.125
\"WHEN ARE YOU COMING?
00:34:25.125 --> 00:34:28.583
\"MAYBE I WILL DIE
BEFORE YOU COME.
00:34:28.583 --> 00:34:29.542
\"I DO NOT KNOW.
00:34:29.542 --> 00:34:32.999
\"WHEN YOU COME,
BRING ME SOME PRETTY CALICO.
00:34:32.999 --> 00:34:35.250
\"NOW I AM A LITTLE BETTER.
00:34:35.250 --> 00:34:38.083
\"IN THE SUMMER IT WAS OTHERWISE.
00:34:38.083 --> 00:34:40.083
KENNEYUK.\"
00:34:40.083 --> 00:34:44.208
THE SON THAT JENNIE WANTED
JENNESS TO MEET
00:34:44.208 --> 00:34:46.458
WAS AIME AHEGONA.
00:34:46.458 --> 00:34:48.917
DURING THE SUMMER,
HE AND HIS FAMILY
00:34:48.917 --> 00:34:53.999
LIVE ON THE ISLAND IN THE MOUTH
OF THE COPPERMINE RIVER.
00:34:53.999 --> 00:34:57.000
ONE THING THAT THEY TOLD ME
00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:01.709
THAT SHE HAD A SORE OR BOIL
IN HER BACK,
00:35:01.709 --> 00:35:07.208
BREAKING IN INSTEAD OF
BREAKING RIGHT OUT, EH?
00:35:07.208 --> 00:35:10.999
AND SO...
00:35:14.999 --> 00:35:18.125
THEY SAID WHENEVER
SHE DOES SOMETHING,
00:35:18.125 --> 00:35:21.875
WHEN SHE BEND DOWN
TO DO SOMETHING,
00:35:21.875 --> 00:35:28.166
AND THEY SAY THE AIR
SEEMS TO BLOW OUT FROM THE BODY
00:35:28.166 --> 00:35:30.999
LIKE, AND SHE\'D
STILL DO THE WORK
00:35:30.999 --> 00:35:37.375
AND I DON\'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED
AFTERWARDS, LIKE...
00:35:37.375 --> 00:35:45.125
WELL, HER SPINE WAS COLLAPSING
AND I THINK IT WAS NOW...
00:35:45.125 --> 00:35:48.291
THE INFECTION
WAS NOW GENERALIZED.
00:35:48.291 --> 00:35:53.917
THAT\'S MY RECOLLECTION.
00:35:53.917 --> 00:35:56.083
[ NARRATOR ]: A FEW DAYS LATER,
00:35:56.083 --> 00:35:59.999
KENNEYUK AND IKPAKHUAK
GOT A REPLY FROM JENNESS.
00:35:59.999 --> 00:36:03.709
\"I SHALL NEVER FORGET MY FATHER
AND MY YOUNGER SISTER.
00:36:03.709 --> 00:36:07.625
\"THOUGH I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU,
IT CANNOT COME TO PASS.
00:36:07.625 --> 00:36:10.583
\"IT IS TOO FAR AWAY.
00:36:10.583 --> 00:36:13.667
\"I AM GETTING TOO OLD.
00:36:13.667 --> 00:36:14.875
\"DO NOT BE FRIGHTENED.
00:36:14.875 --> 00:36:17.250
\"WHEN WE DIE,
WE WILL MEET EACH OTHER.
00:36:17.250 --> 00:36:19.709
\"WE WILL BE HAPPY ALL TOGETHER.
00:36:19.709 --> 00:36:21.333
JENNESS.\"
00:36:25.917 --> 00:36:29.291
EVERY TIME A PLANE ARRIVED,
THE DOCTOR EXPECTED
00:36:29.291 --> 00:36:31.709
TO GET HIS SUN LAMP.
00:36:31.709 --> 00:36:35.208
HE HAD TOLD JENNIE KENNEYUK
THE SUN LAMP WOULD HELP HER.
00:36:35.208 --> 00:36:38.999
PLANES WERE ARRIVING, BRINGING
MINING EXPLORATION EQUIPMENT,
00:36:38.999 --> 00:36:40.500
BUT STILL NO SUN LAMP
00:36:40.500 --> 00:36:43.208
NOR APPROVAL FOR THE PURCHASE
OF THE BUILDING.
00:36:43.208 --> 00:36:47.542
RICHARD FINNIE, THE SON OF
DR. MARTIN\'S BOSS, O.S. FINNIE,
00:36:47.542 --> 00:36:50.417
CAME TO COPPERMINE
DURING THE SUMMER OF 1930
00:36:50.417 --> 00:36:54.083
TO FILM A WAY OF LIFE
BEFORE IT DISAPPEARED.
00:36:54.083 --> 00:36:57.999
HE WAS LIVING
IN THE DOCTOR\'S HOUSE.
00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:16.125
[ O.S. FINNIE ]: OTTAWA,
30th OCTOBER, 1930.
00:37:16.125 --> 00:37:19.999
TO DR. R.D. MARTIN, COPPERMINE,
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES.
00:37:19.999 --> 00:37:23.667
YOUR RECOMMENDATION TO PURCHASE
FRAME BUILDING FOR $500
00:37:23.667 --> 00:37:24.250
IS APPROVED
00:37:24.250 --> 00:37:27.875
AND CHEQUE WILL BE FORWARDED
TO COMPANY IN TORONTO, STOP.
00:37:27.875 --> 00:37:30.500
IT IS CONTRARY
TO DEPARTMENTAL PRACTICE
00:37:30.500 --> 00:37:33.750
TO MAKE COMMITMENTS
FOR SUCH LARGE EXPENDITURES
00:37:33.750 --> 00:37:36.417
AND YOU ARE REQUESTED
NOT TO DO SO
00:37:36.417 --> 00:37:39.333
WITHOUT FIRST SECURING
DEPARTMENTAL APPROVAL, STOP.
00:37:39.333 --> 00:37:41.917
ARE YOU OCCUPYING
THE BUILDING NOW
00:37:41.917 --> 00:37:44.041
AND HAVE YOU SUFFICIENT FUEL?
00:37:44.041 --> 00:37:46.500
O.S. FINNIE.
00:37:46.500 --> 00:37:49.375
[ MARTIN ]: COPPERMINE,
1st OF NOVEMBER, 1930.
00:37:49.375 --> 00:37:53.291
TO O.S. FINNIE, ESQUIRE,
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
00:37:53.291 --> 00:37:57.291
REGRET INCONVENIENCE CAUSED
IN PURCHASING OF HOUSE, STOP.
00:37:57.291 --> 00:38:02.166
WITH FIRST FAVOURABLE SNOW
CONDITIONS AT 10 BELOW 0 TODAY
00:38:02.166 --> 00:38:03.999
HOUSE MOUNTED ON TWO SLEDS
00:38:03.999 --> 00:38:07.999
AND SUCCESSFULLY HAULED
HALF MILE BY NATIVES AND DOGS
00:38:07.999 --> 00:38:12.583
TO HOSPITAL WHERE IT IS NOW
READY FOR OCCUPANCY.
00:38:12.583 --> 00:38:15.999
R.D. MARTIN.
00:38:25.542 --> 00:38:28.458
[ NARRATOR ]: WHEN THE BUILDING
WAS IN PLACE,
00:38:28.458 --> 00:38:30.999
DR. MARTIN AND RICHARD FINNIE
MOVED IN.
00:38:30.999 --> 00:38:36.834
NOW, ALL OF THE MEDICAL STATION
COULD BE USED AS A HOSPITAL.
00:38:36.834 --> 00:38:39.542
JENNIE WAS MOVED INSIDE.
00:38:39.542 --> 00:38:42.333
I WOULD LIKE TO SEND
THE FOLLOWING TELEGRAM
00:38:42.333 --> 00:38:46.999
TO DR. R.D. MARTIN, COPPERMINE,
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES.
00:38:46.999 --> 00:38:51.542
UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE ADMITTED
NUMBER INCURABLES
00:38:51.542 --> 00:38:52.250
TO YOUR HOSPITAL.
00:38:52.250 --> 00:38:56.500
FEELING HERE IS THAT YOU SHOULD
AVOID CHRONIC AND INCURABLE
00:38:56.500 --> 00:38:57.792
AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
00:38:57.792 --> 00:39:00.458
IN ORDER TO LEAVE
AVAILABLE SPACE
00:39:00.458 --> 00:39:01.999
FOR ACUTE CASES, STOP.
00:39:01.999 --> 00:39:04.999
DIRECTOR RADIO SERVICES
HAS KINDLY OFFERED
00:39:04.999 --> 00:39:08.417
TURN OVER TO YOU BEDS, CHAIRS,
OR OTHER EQUIPMENT
00:39:08.417 --> 00:39:11.999
SURPLUS TO THEIR REQUIREMENTS
AT COPPERMINE, STOP.
00:39:11.999 --> 00:39:17.709
UPON LEAVING HERE
YOU RECEIVED ADVANCE $750
00:39:17.709 --> 00:39:22.999
BUT ONLY 330.37 ACCOUNTED FOR,
STOP.
00:39:22.999 --> 00:39:28.250
REMAINING 419.63
SHOULD BE ACCOUNTED FOR
00:39:28.250 --> 00:39:31.667
WITH VOUCHERS FIRST OPPORTUNITY.
00:39:31.667 --> 00:39:32.999
O.S. FINNIE.
00:39:32.999 --> 00:39:36.834
CHARGE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
AND YUKON BRANCH,
00:39:36.834 --> 00:39:38.999
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
00:39:38.999 --> 00:39:41.041
THANK YOU.
00:39:48.500 --> 00:39:51.999
[ NARRATOR ]: DR. MARTIN
AND REVEREND WEBSTER
00:39:51.999 --> 00:39:53.500
SPENT MANY NIGHTS
00:39:53.500 --> 00:39:54.999
DURING THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS
00:39:54.999 --> 00:39:57.917
TRYING TO BRING THE DOCTOR\'S
ACCOUNTS UP TO DATE.
00:39:57.917 --> 00:40:01.375
DR. MARTIN HAD SUPPLIED FLOUR
AND SUGAR TO SICK FAMILIES
00:40:01.375 --> 00:40:05.667
BUT HAD LOST TRACK
OF MANY OF THE RECEIPTS.
00:40:08.917 --> 00:40:11.291
[ PRIEST ]:
VISIT TO THE FISHING CAMP.
00:40:11.291 --> 00:40:13.291
IT IS A DIFFICULT TIME FOR US.
00:40:13.291 --> 00:40:17.667
IRKARINA HAS CHANGED ENTIRELY
IN HIS ATTITUDE TOWARDS US.
00:40:17.667 --> 00:40:21.500
HE SAYS THAT OUR BAPTISM
KILLS PEOPLE.
00:40:21.500 --> 00:40:23.000
BUT HE FORGETS THAT
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.999
HE HIMSELF WAS BAPTIZED
BY THE MINISTER.
00:40:25.999 --> 00:40:29.375
HE CLAIMS IT\'S OUR BREAD
THAT HAS MADE HIM SICK.
00:40:29.375 --> 00:40:33.417
THIS IS DUE TO THE PERFIDIOUS
ADVICE HE HAS RECEIVED
00:40:33.417 --> 00:40:34.917
FROM THE DOCTOR.
00:40:34.917 --> 00:40:37.125
ALL THE OTHER ESKIMO INDICATE
00:40:37.125 --> 00:40:39.291
THEY ARE SIDING
WITH THE MINISTER.
00:40:39.291 --> 00:40:45.000
EVEN THOSE FAMILIES WHO HAD
SEEMED LOYAL TO US UP TO NOW
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:46.999
ARE CHANGING.
00:40:48.542 --> 00:40:52.542
[ NARRATOR ]: THE MOVE
TO THE HOSPITAL HAS NOT HELPED.
00:40:52.542 --> 00:40:53.542
JENNIE IS NOT IMPROVING.
00:40:53.542 --> 00:40:59.999
STILL NO SUN LAMP AND NO WORD
WHEN IT WILL ARRIVE.
00:41:21.041 --> 00:41:27.917
[ PRIEST ]: DECEMBER 25th, 1930.
00:41:27.917 --> 00:41:30.333
MANY PEOPLE AT MIDNIGHT MASS.
00:41:30.333 --> 00:41:34.750
SOMEHOW 120
PACKED THEMSELVES INTO THE ROOM.
00:41:34.750 --> 00:41:37.750
THEY ALL HEARD
SOME WORTHY TRUTHS.
00:41:37.750 --> 00:41:40.583
MAY THE LITTLE JESUS
OF THE MANGER
00:41:40.583 --> 00:41:43.999
CAUSE THE SEEDS OF FAITH
TO GROW AND REIGN
00:41:43.999 --> 00:41:47.583
DESPITE THE FORCES OF SATAN
AND HIS AGENTS.
00:41:47.583 --> 00:41:50.542
IN THE AFTERNOON,
HOOPO BECAME MUCH WORSE.
00:41:50.542 --> 00:41:53.999
THE SHAMAN WAS HOPING
TO HAVE HIM TO HIMSELF,
00:41:53.999 --> 00:41:57.750
BUT THE PATIENT RECEIVED
THE LAST RITES.
00:41:57.750 --> 00:42:03.999
[ MARTIN ]: MEDICAL JOURNAL,
JANUARY 1931.
00:42:03.999 --> 00:42:08.667
IN THE PAST 8 MONTHS
IN COPPERMINE ALONE, 18 DEATHS,
00:42:08.667 --> 00:42:09.999
16 FROM TB.
00:42:09.999 --> 00:42:12.500
10 DEATHS OCCURRED
IN 3 FAMILIES.
00:42:12.500 --> 00:42:16.500
WITH PROPER TREATMENT,
SUN LAMP AND ISOLATION,
00:42:16.500 --> 00:42:18.375
70% COULD BE CURED.
00:42:18.375 --> 00:42:20.208
WITHOUT PROPER TREATMENT,
00:42:20.208 --> 00:42:26.125
TB COULD DESTROY THE RACE
IN A FEW YEARS.
00:42:26.125 --> 00:42:28.999
JANUARY 18, 1931.
00:42:28.999 --> 00:42:33.333
THIS EVENING, SECOND VISIT
TO JENNIE KENNEYUK,
00:42:33.333 --> 00:42:35.000
A POOR FANATICIZED PATIENT.
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:38.750
ON THE FIRST VISIT,
SHE SEEMED RECEPTIVE;
00:42:38.750 --> 00:42:42.375
AT THE SECOND,
SHE ARGUED STRONGLY.
00:42:42.375 --> 00:42:46.625
PERHAPS SHE WILL DIE SOON.
00:42:46.625 --> 00:42:48.999
MOST OF THEM DIED EVENTUALLY.
00:42:48.999 --> 00:42:53.166
THEY DIDN\'T JUST HAVE AN ILLNESS
AND GET OVER IT.
00:42:53.166 --> 00:42:57.250
THEY KEPT ON BEING ILL
AND DIED,
00:42:57.250 --> 00:43:04.041
AND THE FACT THAT THEY WERE
LIVING IN TENTS OR SNOW HOUSES
00:43:04.041 --> 00:43:06.999
MEANT THAT ANYTHING THEY HAD
00:43:06.999 --> 00:43:10.250
THEY TENDED TO PASS ON
TO THE FAMILY
00:43:10.250 --> 00:43:16.875
AND HENCE THE INCREASING SPREAD.
00:43:19.999 --> 00:43:22.125
[ FINNIE ]:
2nd OF FEBRUARY, 1931.
00:43:22.125 --> 00:43:24.999
MEMORANDUM TO R.A. GIBSON,
ESQUIRE.
00:43:24.999 --> 00:43:28.999
ACTING DEPUTY MINISTER,
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
00:43:28.999 --> 00:43:32.959
DR. MARTIN\'S REPLY OF
THE 21st JANUARY IS HEREUNDER,
00:43:32.959 --> 00:43:36.625
FROM WHICH YOU WILL OBSERVE
THAT HE RECOMMENDS STRONGLY
00:43:36.625 --> 00:43:39.250
THE ERECTION OF A HOSPITAL
AT COPPERMINE
00:43:39.250 --> 00:43:40.959
AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT.
00:43:40.959 --> 00:43:44.208
YOU WILL REMEMBER WE HAD
A SMALL ITEM IN THE ESTIMATES
00:43:44.208 --> 00:43:46.999
TO COVER A GRANT FOR A HOSPITAL
AT THIS POINT.
00:43:46.999 --> 00:43:50.375
ALSO TO PROVIDE FOR
A NURSE AND OTHER MINOR MATTERS.
00:43:50.375 --> 00:43:51.959
BUT THESE ITEMS WERE CUT OUT
00:43:51.959 --> 00:43:55.417
WHEN WE LAST WENT OVER
THE ESTIMATES WITH THE MINISTER.
00:43:55.417 --> 00:43:58.750
DR. MARTIN POINTS OUT
THAT THERE HAVE BEEN
00:43:58.750 --> 00:44:00.875
AN UNUSUAL NUMBER
OF DEATHS LATELY,
00:44:00.875 --> 00:44:05.000
MOSTLY FROM TUBERCULOSIS,
AND THAT IF THIS IS NOT CHECKED,
00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:08.333
IT WILL DESTROY THE RACE
IN A FEW YEARS.
00:44:08.333 --> 00:44:12.625
THIS IS A QUESTION WHICH SHOULD
PROPERLY BE BROUGHT UP
00:44:12.625 --> 00:44:16.041
BEFORE THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
COUNCIL
00:44:16.041 --> 00:44:18.542
FOR A FULL DISCUSSION.
00:44:22.333 --> 00:44:25.709
[ NARRATOR ]: IN MARCH,
THE WEATHER HAD CLEARED ENOUGH
00:44:25.709 --> 00:44:28.125
FOR THE YEAR\'S FIRST PLANE
TO ARRIVE.
00:44:28.125 --> 00:44:31.542
THE SUN LAMP HAD STILL NOT COME.
00:44:31.542 --> 00:44:34.959
JENNIE WAS MUCH WORSE--
SHE WAS GRAVELY ILL.
00:44:34.959 --> 00:44:39.333
INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING
THEIR USUAL HUNTING ROUTE,
00:44:39.333 --> 00:44:41.917
JENNIE\'S FATHER, IKPAKHUAK,
00:44:41.917 --> 00:44:43.458
AND KHEKPAK, HER HUSBAND,
00:44:43.458 --> 00:44:48.999
HAD STAYED IN COPPERMINE
OVER THE WINTER.
00:44:53.709 --> 00:44:56.458
THE NEXT DAY,
A SECOND PLANE ARRIVED,
00:44:56.458 --> 00:45:01.999
CARRYING ALL THE WINTER\'S MAIL,
BUT NO SUN LAMP.
00:45:01.999 --> 00:45:04.959
AND THE DOCTOR
WAS SO EXASPERATED
00:45:04.959 --> 00:45:09.959
BECAUSE THEY\'D PROMISED
THE SUPPLIES AND NONE HAD COME.
00:45:09.959 --> 00:45:12.583
SO HE WENT OUT ON THE PLANE
00:45:12.583 --> 00:45:15.417
THAT WAS SUPPOSED
TO BRING IN THE SUPPLIES
00:45:15.417 --> 00:45:19.125
AND HE WENT TO OTTAWA
TO SEE WHAT THE TROUBLE WAS.
00:45:19.125 --> 00:45:21.333
[ NARRATOR ]:
ON THE DAY THAT DR. MARTIN
00:45:21.333 --> 00:45:25.125
WAS FLYING AWAY FROM COPPERMINE,
HIS BOSS, O.S. FINNIE,
00:45:25.125 --> 00:45:26.999
AGAIN REMINDED
THE DEPUTY MINISTER
00:45:26.999 --> 00:45:30.625
OF THE PRESSING NEED
FOR A HOSPITAL AT COPPERMINE.
00:45:30.625 --> 00:45:33.667
[ FINNIE ]: THERE IS
NO HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION
00:45:33.667 --> 00:45:36.291
IN THE WESTERN ARCTIC
BETWEEN AKLAVIK,
00:45:36.291 --> 00:45:37.999
AT THE DELTA OF THE MACKENZIE
00:45:37.999 --> 00:45:41.750
AND CHESTERFIELD, ON
THE WEST COAST OF HUDSON\'S BAY,
00:45:41.750 --> 00:45:42.291
A DISTANCE
00:45:42.291 --> 00:45:46.041
BY ORDINARY ROUTES OF TRAVEL
OF APPROXIMATELY 1,600 MILES.
00:45:46.041 --> 00:45:47.917
THE MOUTH OF THE COPPERMINE,
00:45:47.917 --> 00:45:50.583
WHERE IT IS PROPOSED
TO ERECT THE HOSPITAL,
00:45:50.583 --> 00:45:53.125
IS ROUGHLY MIDWAY BETWEEN
THESE TWO POINTS
00:45:53.125 --> 00:45:56.375
AND IS THE LOGICAL CENTRE
FOR A HOSPITAL IN THAT AREA.
00:45:56.375 --> 00:45:59.999
SUCH HOSPITAL WOULD SERVE
APPROXIMATELY 1,000 ESKIMO
00:45:59.999 --> 00:46:00.999
AND 60 WHITE PEOPLE.
00:46:00.999 --> 00:46:03.999
THERE IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY
OF MINERAL DEVELOPMENT
00:46:03.999 --> 00:46:07.999
IN THE AREA IMMEDIATELY SOUTH
OF THE COPPERMINE
00:46:07.999 --> 00:46:10.333
AND TRIBUTARY TO IT.
00:46:10.333 --> 00:46:12.917
[ NARRATOR ]:
THE DEPUTY MINISTER\'S REPLY
00:46:12.917 --> 00:46:13.999
CAME TWO DAYS LATER.
00:46:13.999 --> 00:46:16.625
\"I HEREWITH RETURN
YOUR FILE NUMBER 6873
00:46:16.625 --> 00:46:19.583
\"RELATIVE TO THE NEED
FOR A HOSPITAL AT COPPERMINE.
00:46:19.583 --> 00:46:23.041
\"PROBABLY WE HAD BETTER WAIT
UNTIL DR. MARTIN ARRIVES
00:46:23.041 --> 00:46:24.999
\"AND GET A FULL REPORT FROM HIM.
00:46:24.999 --> 00:46:27.917
\"IF AN EMERGENCY EXISTS,
THERE WILL STILL BE TIME
00:46:27.917 --> 00:46:31.750
\"FOR OUR MINISTER TO ADDRESS
AN APPROPRIATE COMMUNICATION
00:46:31.750 --> 00:46:32.917
TO THE TREASURY BOARD.\"
00:46:32.917 --> 00:46:38.333
DR. MARTIN HAD LEFT JENNIE
IN THE CARE OF RICHARD FINNIE.
00:46:38.333 --> 00:46:43.583
[ MARTIN ]:
OH, SHE WAS PRETTY POOR.
00:46:43.583 --> 00:46:46.834
THE FACT THAT THE SUN LAMP...
00:46:46.834 --> 00:46:49.125
THE FACT THAT THIS
HADN\'T ARRIVED
00:46:49.125 --> 00:46:53.999
WAS HER LAST HOPE GONE,
YOU SEE...
00:46:53.999 --> 00:46:57.959
SO...THAT\'S...
00:46:57.959 --> 00:47:03.333
MY DEPARTURE MIGHT HAVE MADE
A DAY OR TWO\'S DIFFERENCE
00:47:03.333 --> 00:47:06.999
BUT I DON\'T THINK VERY MUCH.
00:47:08.667 --> 00:47:12.834
[ NARRATOR ]: LATER THE DAY
DR. MARTIN LEFT COPPERMINE,
00:47:12.834 --> 00:47:18.041
RICHARD FINNIE TOLD JENNIE THAT
THE SUN LAMP HAD NOT ARRIVED.
00:47:18.041 --> 00:47:23.999
SHE WHISPERED,
\"I CANNOT LIVE ANYMORE.\"
00:47:23.999 --> 00:47:28.250
THAT EVENING, JENNIE\'S BODY
WAS SEWN IN CANVAS.
00:47:28.250 --> 00:47:30.917
THERE WAS NO WOOD FOR A COFFIN.
00:47:30.917 --> 00:47:34.333
KHEKPAK CAME FORWARD WITH
A SMALL, COVERLESS, WOODEN BOX
00:47:34.333 --> 00:47:38.125
WHICH HE CAREFULLY PUT
UPSIDE-DOWN OVER JENNIE\'S HEAD.
00:47:38.125 --> 00:47:40.959
EARLIER, JENNIE
HAD ASKED FOR THIS
00:47:40.959 --> 00:47:42.999
SO SHE WOULD BE SURE TO HAVE
00:47:42.999 --> 00:47:45.500
SOME AIR TO BREATHE
IN HER GRAVE.
00:47:45.500 --> 00:47:48.999
ONE OF THE INUIT TERMS
FOR THE WHITE MAN\'S GOD
00:47:48.999 --> 00:47:50.709
ALSO MEANS \"THE BIG BREATH;
00:47:50.709 --> 00:47:54.999
THE AIR THAT GOES IN AND OUT
OF THE NOSTRILS.\"
00:47:59.999 --> 00:48:02.375
THE DAY JENNIE WAS BURIED,
00:48:02.375 --> 00:48:06.999
IT WAS MINUS 47 DEGREES.
00:48:12.792 --> 00:48:15.375
HER 2-YEAR-OLD SON,
AIME AHEGONA,
00:48:15.375 --> 00:48:20.166
LOOKED ON FROM THE PARKA
OF A WOMAN WHO WAS HELPING.
00:48:20.166 --> 00:48:23.959
EVERY TIME I\'M OUT HERE
IN THE GRAVEYARD,
00:48:23.959 --> 00:48:27.999
I JUST WANDER AROUND
LOOKING AROUND FOR HER,
00:48:27.999 --> 00:48:28.999
YOU KNOW.
00:48:28.999 --> 00:48:32.417
I JUST WALK THROUGH
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE
00:48:32.417 --> 00:48:33.375
JUST TO WALK BY...
00:48:33.375 --> 00:48:37.999
AND, UH, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME
I GET TO KNOW
00:48:37.999 --> 00:48:40.999
WHEREABOUTS SHE MIGHT BE.
00:48:44.917 --> 00:48:48.999
[ NARRATOR ]: DR. MARTIN
FLEW FROM COPPERMINE TO EDMONTON
00:48:48.999 --> 00:48:51.041
THEN TOOK THE TRAIN TO OTTAWA.
00:48:51.041 --> 00:48:53.959
WHEN HE ARRIVED,
HE WAS ASKED TO WRITE
00:48:53.959 --> 00:48:56.542
A COMPLETE REPORT
FOR THE MINISTER.
00:48:56.542 --> 00:48:57.458
[ MARTIN ]: SINCE MY ARRIVAL
00:48:57.458 --> 00:49:01.999
IN THE COPPERMINE IN 1929,
I HAVE VISITED ALL NATIVE GROUPS
00:49:01.999 --> 00:49:04.583
BETWEEN PIERCE POINT
AND CAMBRIDGE BAY.
00:49:04.583 --> 00:49:08.417
TUBERCULOSIS IS PRESENT
IN EVERY GROUP IN THIS AREA.
00:49:08.417 --> 00:49:12.999
IN THE COPPERMINE,
IT REACHED EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS.
00:49:12.999 --> 00:49:13.999
IN THE PAST YEAR,
00:49:13.999 --> 00:49:17.999
ABOUT 25% OF THE POPULATION
HAVE DIED FROM TB
00:49:17.999 --> 00:49:23.999
AND A FURTHER 25% ARE
INFECTED WITH THE DISEASE.
00:49:23.999 --> 00:49:28.542
WELL, I RECOMMENDED
TO BUILD A HOSPITAL
00:49:28.542 --> 00:49:32.250
WITH ABOUT 12 BEDS
00:49:32.250 --> 00:49:36.959
AND THIS WOULD COST
ABOUT $10,000.
00:49:36.959 --> 00:49:42.999
AND I RECOMMENDED
THAT I SHOULD HAVE SOME HELP
00:49:42.999 --> 00:49:47.000
BECAUSE OTHERWISE
EVERY TIME I LEFT THE SETTLEMENT
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:50.999
THERE WAS NO ONE
TO LOOK AFTER PATIENTS.
00:49:50.999 --> 00:49:53.999
OH, I THINK HE WAS JUST
OVERRODE.
00:49:53.999 --> 00:49:58.417
THE POWERS THAT BE,
THEY PUT IN A DOCTOR THERE
00:49:58.417 --> 00:50:02.750
TO PASS PILLS OUT, I IMAGINE,
AND WAVE THE FLAG...
00:50:02.750 --> 00:50:05.542
OR WHATEVER THEY DO--
I DON\'T KNOW.
00:50:05.542 --> 00:50:08.166
WELL, I DON\'T REMEMBER DETAIL.
00:50:08.166 --> 00:50:10.959
I\'VE ONLY GOT
THE OFFICIAL REPLY,
00:50:10.959 --> 00:50:15.750
BUT THE GIST OF IT WAS THAT
THEY COULDN\'T DO ANYTHING.
00:50:15.750 --> 00:50:17.583
THERE WERE
VARIOUS SUGGESTIONS MADE
00:50:17.583 --> 00:50:21.875
FOR A SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY
FOR EXTRA BEDS
00:50:21.875 --> 00:50:27.083
BUT EVERYTHING WAS TURNED DOWN--
THEY HADN\'T GOT THE MONEY.
00:50:27.083 --> 00:50:31.500
SO THEY SAID, \"YOU MIGHT AS WELL
TAKE YOUR LEAVE\"
00:50:31.500 --> 00:50:35.917
AND SO I TOOK MY LEAVE
AND WENT HOME.
00:50:35.917 --> 00:50:36.999
WENT BACK TO SCOTLAND.
00:50:36.999 --> 00:50:40.041
AS I SAY, THEY SAID
THEY WOULD SEND ME BACK
00:50:40.041 --> 00:50:43.083
JUST TO CARRY ON
AS I HAD DONE BEFORE.
00:50:43.083 --> 00:50:44.333
[ NARRATOR ]:
IN SCOTLAND, DR. MARTIN
00:50:44.333 --> 00:50:47.333
STUDIED THE LATEST TECHNIQUES
FOR TREATING TUBERCULOSIS
00:50:47.333 --> 00:50:50.250
IN PREPARATION
FOR HIS RETURN TO COPPERMINE.
00:50:50.250 --> 00:50:53.125
HE WENT TO MEARNSKIRK HOSPITAL
IN GLASGOW,
00:50:53.125 --> 00:50:59.208
LEADERS IN THE TREATMENT OF TB
IN GREAT BRITAIN.
00:50:59.208 --> 00:51:01.041
WHAT HE LEARNED
00:51:01.041 --> 00:51:05.166
CONFIRMED WHAT HE HAD TRIED
TO DO IN COPPERMINE.
00:51:05.166 --> 00:51:09.542
HE WAS OUT
AND HE COULDN\'T GET BACK AGAIN
00:51:09.542 --> 00:51:11.041
UNTIL THE SUMMER,
00:51:11.041 --> 00:51:16.208
SO HE WENT HOME
TO EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
00:51:16.208 --> 00:51:20.417
FOR A MONTH,
WHICH HE\'D EARNED,
00:51:20.417 --> 00:51:22.709
AND WHILE HE WAS THERE,
00:51:22.709 --> 00:51:25.999
THEY SENT HIM
A LETTER OR A TELEGRAM
00:51:25.999 --> 00:51:29.999
TO SAY THEY NO LONGER NEEDED
HIS SERVICES.
00:51:29.999 --> 00:51:35.458
[ NARRATOR ]: A FEW WEEKS AFTER
DR. MARTIN\'S POSITION WAS CLOSED
00:51:35.458 --> 00:51:37.959
THE SUN LAMP ARRIVED.
00:51:37.959 --> 00:51:39.750
INSTRUCTIONS WERE ALSO SENT
00:51:39.750 --> 00:51:41.999
TO PACK ALL
DR. MARTIN\'S BELONGINGS
00:51:41.999 --> 00:51:44.999
AND SHIP EVERYTHING OUT
ON THEBAYCHIMO.
00:51:44.999 --> 00:51:47.917
DR. MARTIN NEVER RECEIVED
ANY OF HIS PROPERTY.
00:51:47.917 --> 00:51:51.333
THEBAYCHIMOWAS LOST
IN THE ARCTIC ICE THAT YEAR.
00:51:51.333 --> 00:51:55.959
THE MEDICAL STATION
AND THE N.A.M.E. BUILDING
00:51:55.959 --> 00:51:57.083
WERE KEPT INTACT.
00:51:57.083 --> 00:52:01.125
BEFORE LONG, THE DOCTOR\'S
UNTENDED DOG TEAM
00:52:01.125 --> 00:52:03.500
BECAME A PROBLEM
IN THE COMMUNITY.
00:52:03.500 --> 00:52:06.792
RICHARD BONNYCASTLE
OF THE HUDSON\'S BAY COMPANY
00:52:06.792 --> 00:52:09.999
WAS FORCED TO SHOOT
THE LEAD DOG.
00:52:09.999 --> 00:52:12.999
DR. MARTIN NEVER RETURNED.
00:53:09.291 --> 00:53:11.583
THE HOSPITAL WAS NEVER BUILT.
00:53:11.583 --> 00:53:16.750
NO OTHER DOCTOR CAME TO LIVE
IN COPPERMINE.
00:53:19.125 --> 00:53:22.125
DEATHS FROM TUBERCULOSIS
CONTINUED.
00:53:22.125 --> 00:53:24.999
IT WASN\'T UNTIL
AFTER WORLD WAR II,
00:53:24.999 --> 00:53:27.999
WHEN NEWLY DISCOVERED DRUGS
COULD CURE TB,
00:53:27.999 --> 00:53:30.999
WAS ANYTHING DONE
FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE ARCTIC.
00:53:30.999 --> 00:53:34.709
THEN THEY WERE ROUNDED UP,
SHIPPED OUT TO SANITORIA
00:53:34.709 --> 00:53:36.542
IN EDMONTON, HAMILTON,
AND MONTREAL,
00:53:36.542 --> 00:53:39.999
AND WITH ISOLATION
AND THE NEW MIRACLE DRUGS,
00:53:39.999 --> 00:53:42.417
CURE WAS POSSIBLE.
00:53:45.999 --> 00:53:49.999
GOD DAMN IT,
THEY CAME OUT OF THE ICE AGE.
00:53:49.999 --> 00:53:52.792
THEY FOLLOWED THE ICE
AND THEY STAYED THERE
00:53:52.792 --> 00:53:56.999
AND THEY SURVIVED WITHOUT US,
WITH THEIR OWN PRIMITIVE METHODS
00:53:56.999 --> 00:54:00.625
AND WE GO IN THERE
WITH OUR GUNS AND EVERYTHING
00:54:00.625 --> 00:54:01.999
AND INTERRUPT THE CYCLE.
00:54:01.999 --> 00:54:06.208
I BELIEVE THAT THE ESKIMO
THAT I KNOW WAS THE HUNTER
00:54:06.208 --> 00:54:10.041
AND THEY ALWAYS
LOOKED AFTER ONE ANOTHER.
00:54:14.166 --> 00:54:15.583
BUT...
00:54:15.583 --> 00:54:17.125
WHAT HAVE YOU GIVEN THEM NOW?
00:54:17.125 --> 00:54:21.083
THE BENEFITS OF CIVILIZATION--
THE DOPE AND THE BOOZE.
00:54:21.083 --> 00:54:22.999
YOU\'VE GIVEN THEM THAT, TOO.
00:54:22.999 --> 00:54:25.999
SO ARE WE AHEAD
OR ARE WE BEHIND?
00:54:25.999 --> 00:54:26.999
I ASK YOU THAT.
00:54:26.999 --> 00:54:31.208
YOU\'RE ASKING ME--
I\'M ASKING YOU THAT.
00:54:31.208 --> 00:54:33.583
IS THERE MORE DEATHS NOW?
00:54:33.583 --> 00:54:34.458
IS THERE MORE...
00:54:34.458 --> 00:54:37.709
THE BIRTH IS OKAY, EVERYTHING,
THAT\'S ALL RIGHT.
00:54:37.709 --> 00:54:40.250
BUT WHAT ARE YOU DOING
TO THE YOUNG?
00:54:40.250 --> 00:54:41.959
WHERE\'S THE YOUNG MEN?
00:54:41.959 --> 00:54:42.999
ARE THEY WORKING?
00:54:42.999 --> 00:54:45.999
THE YOUNG WOMEN,
WHAT DO THEY DO?
00:54:45.999 --> 00:54:48.667
SO THIS IS WHY I DIFFER
SOMETIMES
00:54:48.667 --> 00:54:52.166
WITH THESE PEOPLE WHO SAY
THAT THIS IS THE WAY TO GO.
00:54:52.166 --> 00:54:54.709
I KNOW THE CAUCASIAN
STEAMROLLER.
00:54:54.709 --> 00:54:56.999
I KNOW THAT--
THE WORLD\'S PROVED IT.
00:54:56.999 --> 00:55:01.999
WHEREVER WE\'VE WENT,
WE\'VE ALTERED THE CULTURES.
00:56:00.500 --> 00:56:02.166
CAPTIONING PERFORMED BY:
00:56:02.166 --> 00:56:05.999
WESTERN CAPTIONING SERVICE LTD.
VANCOUVER, B.C. 1992