Alootook Ipellie

Alootook Ipellie (1951 – September 8, 2007) was an accomplished Inuit graphic artist, political and satirical cartoonist and writer, photographer, and Inuktitut translator. He was born in the small hunting camp of Nuvuqquq near Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories now known as Iqaluit, Nunavut on Baffin Island. His father Joanassie died in a hunting accident before Ipellie's first birthday and his mother Napatchie moved with him to the hamlet of Frobisher Bay. "He spent his childhood and early teenage years adjusting to the transition from the traditional nomadic Inuit way of life to life in government-sponsored Inuit settlements."

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• Alootook ipellie el dorado
• The inuit thought of it by alootook ipellie with david macdonald
• References

Three illustrated poems by Alootook were published when he was 17 called 'Hot to Warm and Cool to Cold'. It begins...

The mosquitos are at large todayAs the wind stills, as the sun heats,And we walk the rocks under,Searching the hills for the meatAnd hide of the useful caribouthat feeds and clothes my family,Through four different seasonsWhen the winds change fromHot to warm, and cool to cold.

He died of a heart attack in Ottawa, Ontario at age 56 and is survived by his daughter, Taina Ipellie.