I, Nuligak: An Inuvialuit History of First Contact

Synopsis

It is easy to overlook Herschel Island – a tiny speck of land just off the Yukon coast – where the Inuvialuit hunter Nuligak once followed the great journeys of caribou, polar bears, and whales. The island lays silently on the margins of geography, entrapped in the footnotes of history, a forgotten place frozen in time. It was on Herschel Island that a young Inuvialuit boy, Nuligak (later named Bob Cockney by the missionaries) came of age — fascinated by Herschel, but equally repelled by the excess of so-called civilization. Through Nuligak’s touching yet tragic life story, expressed through his writings and echoed by his grandchildren’s poignant return to the Island, we are offered a unique view into an often troubling past and a potentially hopeful future.

Main Cast

Tom Radford

Narrator (voice)

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Tom Radford
	Co-Director	Peter Raymont Patrick Reed
Production	Producer	Peter Raymont
	Co-Producer	Tom Radford
	Researcher	Patrick Reed
Camera	Director of Photography	Randy Tomiuk
Editing	Editor	David Kazala
Sound	Original Music Composer	Mark Korven
	Sound Editor	Jakob Thiesen
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Ian Rodness
	Sound Recordist	Larry MacDonald
Crew	Post Production Supervisor	Philip Wilson
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