Complete Inuit shaman life story 1922 

“why do you follow these customs” “we follow them because they work, because they free us from worry” damn

my ancestors are true I will never failed to be my self I am proud to be inuk in me :)

Thank you, I am inuit and this meant a lot to me having been detached from my ancestors culture through colonialism.

I don't see how a culture may survive in a desolate place without belief in something greater than themselves... Without believing that everything they interact with has a spirit, and must be revered. Otherwise, they have no protection and no sense of purpose on a barren rock. Indigenous cultures are not "stupid" for believing in spirits. If their beliefs allow them to peacefully coexist within an ecosystem, then they are smarter than all of us combined. Indigenous cultures must be cherished like a priceless heirloom.

I heard a story about a hunter who killed a caribou. He said the caribou wasnt angry with him and told him he can use his skin and meat but leave the bones. DoNOT use my bones said the caribou. The hunter returns home and tells his wife the situation. she is not pleased. she needs sowing needles. The sledge needs new fitting. We NEED to use these bones. And so they did. And for 3 years...the caribou never returned. The hunters sledge broke down quickly. The womans needles werent straight. the meat harvested from the caribou went sour. This is why you shall always sing a song, or give a poem to your animal friend...always.

How did I end up here? I was youtube surfing and here I am. I watched the whole thing and can't stop appreciating this man sharing his life. So many things I do in life that I know is wasteful and cannot get that time back, but this was not a waste of "my" time. We all have our beliefs that we choose to follow. I might not have grown with this man, or lived his way of life, but the wisdom he has blessed me with today I'll appreciate for a really long time.

Shamans, Inuits, Native Americans, Pygmies. These are my rolemodels. I live in a city but I have always felt a connection with these people. The world is suffering because we lack these great teachers and the customs of our ancestors.

I am inuk and can tell you most of us are specially connected to the spirit world and have our own special abilities or senses as I call them.

These shamans see things... in many modern cultures he and other shamans would be medicated... the way he described crying and being full of dread while singing joy! joy! that would be considered a mental illness in so many cultures.. and yet in other cultures, they are seen as shamans and honored.. we all have much to learn from each other. It's beautiful how everything has a purpose and meaning for them. They honor the animal they must kill for food to survive, because the animal has a soul just like humans. that is so beautiful.

Forgive me, spirits of the rain and wind and earth and every living thing, for my misuse of your flesh, in the past and in the present and in the future. I wish to be at peace with you, and know your ways. Hail the nemeton, in which we all live.

I grew up in New Zealand among the Māori, although I am a White woman. They spoke of a great explorer who was also s medicine man or shaman. His name was Kupe and one night when he was in his home in Hawaii, he had a dream. He kept sailing South and South and further South until he came to a place that was very cold and had great white floating islands on it. Because he was from a tropical place, he had never seen ice or snow and had no words for what he saw. The next day, he began to prepare his voyage, and sailed South, South and further South. It got colder and colder, but he kept going and one day, he awoke and the whole World was white and he saw his great floating white islands! When he had seen them, he was satisfied, he turned his great canoe ship around and sailed North until he once again reached his home.

Hi there! this is beautiful!! Thank you for documenting this and for publishing this. I am Inuit and it means a lot for me to see this. Thank you! I would like to see the full version of this, but I can't find it on the website. What is the name of the full video? are you able to post it on youtube as well? it is easier to share this way. If not that's okay, maybe you can just share the link with me. It would mean a lot to me. Thank you so much!! Qujannamik

These things are true and real..We can all relate to this in one form or another.

Respect for my brothers, mother Earth will protect them !

excellent work! This story could never be told without your camera. I can't thank you enough

being aware of the existence of non ritualistic or symbolic, meditative African culture based on individuality/creativity/origi­­nality, instead of tribes, not recognizing any monarchy but a universal energy amongst a creation, which can communicate among all forms and formlessness and sees them as equal, spiritual consciousness, and prevents any part from being exploited

When he said, "outside", he meant, "OUTSIDE".

American English subtitles are not accurate to what he is actually saying and teaching

You don’t get evil shamans,he lied to call himself a shaman and obviously was other than a shaman

A beautiful video and thank you for sharing. I was lucky enough to share part of my life in the mid 1960s with some of the Inuit - and not only are they incredibly resourceful, they are so very kind. A simply beautiful people.

Thanks for sharing this! Really amazing

This was in a book I read about Shamanism, I think it was Contemporary Shamanism... I was born unconscious, my lungs filled with water... a doctor named Angel saved me, maybe that's why I'm into shamanism, too :)

This is honestly so fascinating

1. This story is insane. 2. Why does it say 1922? 3. This guy’s (Avva?) life story is a story of triumph. Basically a nasty, randy little shaman ruined his parents’ life before he was even born, cursed his birth, made his childhood seem terrible just because all of the weird taboos and then he became a shaman. And, he didn’t mention anything about revenge at all. I mean clearly the taboos are like the backbone of believing in all this but, I mean, barring all of the ambiguity about living like that, all of the stories he told about becoming a shaman were really positive and beautiful.

i am white there is nothing new age about thousands of years old culture and respect for the whole being being whole, my attitude took a big jump living in dillingham alaska in the 70's when a well known yupik carver responded to a question, why do you continue to live a subsitance lifestyle when you can afford to travel and do many things the response was, i cannot eat the money in the bank & if it dissapears i still have my food to eat

I totally understood when he lost his son and did not want to leave his son's body. That he did not want to be with others. His helping spirits left him. His sadness was too much. Then, one day his song of joy returned as did his helping spirits. Such a grief journey that many of us follow. My first born son died 16 months ago. He was 46. He was always a kind son to me. I related to the shaman in his grief.

This is a beautiful story. This man should thank all of his relatives for knowing how he had to live in order to avoid great misfortune. If he had broken the taboos, he could have endured much sorrow or not survived. We must also seek to understand our helping spirits. We have them, but many people do not recognize them. We must welcome them and be thankful to them for their help.

this is great lesson and every standard average european and american should learn from this angakok -to live straight and in balance no matter what age and environment is around...

The Inuits were fine for thousands of years they will still survive in this one hopefully

I love, love our traditional way of life, and I will keep it in my heart..

May All that is Good and Strong and Beautiful be with you.

I too love these people!!! I got all the books written by Knud Rasmussen, I am a very fan of him and the Inuit!!! I wonder if there might be any "Knud Rasmussen Society"? Indeed the works of Rasmussen introduced me in some way seriously into shamanism - a world I ever missed before - it`s a bit like coming home, but it seems still impossible, sadly to say ... .Thanks for the film!!!

Inuit should be proud of their Altai family who have a high IQ as mongols and Siberia nation.

Thanks, great video. Gives a prespective on what people think about the world in another culture. The Shaman is a great story teller of life.

It is transcendental there. There is little human competition, the amount of food in relation to people is reasonably decent, and there is a way of life there that you must live to stay alive. Some people don't want to lose the beauty of the old way, and they haven't been forced to yet, since those areas are a haven in terms of architectural destruction.

I love this man's teaching's, natural law's need to be followed.

MMMMMMMMMMM, I wish I were born an Inuit. Their stories are so fasinating. I wish I were born in a traditional community life style, since my soul starts crying out over and over with every taste of one. Thanks for sharing. Muryelle

Your loss, sir, no matter how tragic, doesn't deny any American their constitutional rights. Please cease and desist.

Put the speed up to 1.25 if you want to read at a normal pace. No offense to this man or the language, it's just hard to read with such lengthy pauses.

@intezam That's so weird a djinn in arabic means a spirit as well.

We are nature - we need to return to our roots ...

until you live here , you will never undrstand, and even then you may never understand

This is very interesting. I've never done any research on shamanism but I have heard stories from my father and grandfather, and I do beleive in them. Tukisinattiaqtuq tusarniqtunilu.

This was interesting. The overall level of the comments here, though, is quite pathetic.

U guys can now learn our inuit tongue! 😊

"The hunters knew that walrus could understand what was said, and that if treated properly they would eventually leave without further violence. It was in the order of things that humans must live by killing animals, after all, and this was something that the creatures understood." Don't get too sentimental, you gotta do what you gotta do.

I think its because our society kills so many animals without thinking twice. The souls of all those animals are probably not to happy with us. I guess we will learn the hard way.

@y0utub3r12345678 Be proud of who you are,no matter which half -the inuit or the"white". :) There;s no such thing as better race. I think there's a lot to learn from indigenous people. Peace.

Interesting fact: the Inuit people mostly have AB+ blood type.

@DJonX7 Maybe there will be in the future. But the absence of an explanation is not a NO. Nor Yes but... I'm talking about the reality happening inside the mind. Thats where we experience ANYTHING (with scientific methods or not) It happens there. And the mind is an infinite universe, and it is not just a tool to recognize reality, and in the moment you don't- threes an abnormality. What is normality and what is reality anyway? There ar mental states beyond the understanding of science

Here I am stressing the line at Walmart is to long and this man is living this way and more happy than I'll ever be. The modern world has ruined us. I wish I could find a tribe, ANYWHERE that would take me in...

I love theese people... And I admire this shaman. Do you see that it is not education that really makes one WISE. It is a good heart. Theese people are pure... They are sacred. I wish the whole world would be in the same way of life. ...Hope a new era will rise. Hope 2012 is true, so after chaos would come order. This world is to small for 6billion fools.

@DJonX7 No there isn't explanation for a lot of damn things! And of course, it doesn't mean that they exist if science can't explain it but what I'm trying to say is that after all EVERYTHING happens in the mind. So we don't have to be very focused on the scientific method to built our reality. Whatever you believe in, whatever you claim to be true or untrue... they're all happening within you, and you are living it. There is one earth but countless worlds in it.

i can relate to this video, i myself have been into shamanism since i saw all those visions about animals. i hope the great spirits stay with this man.

@y0utub3r12345678 Wth is up with you? If you want someone to discuss with, do it with me. Like you, I'm half. And to insult my mother/father like that is BS.

Bonjour, Pas de traduction de l'inuktitut au français ???... J'ai testé et la traduction Google est une catastrophe ! J'aimerais tant comprendre.. Une vidéo à transcrire absolument 👋 Merci

I Prey for change in the world that beautiful indigenous peoples get the help that they need from the goverment as thease peoples have survied so long living in the coldest climates in the world which as a britsh person could never do. For the western people who are racist they to ignorant to Realise that these people are our ancestors too.

@nephildevil sometimes it seems that reality is NOTHING but what YOU MAKE IT! ...everything we are saying is made of thoughts... everything we know is full of thought... every feeling, every belief, every process whatever! The quality of feelings that define your sense of wellbeing... I think they are really important! When we wake from a dream we always want to return and enjoy it the best we can... maybe life is quite similar lol

JOY! JOY! JOY! JOY! JOY!

Just think, boys and girls, the Yankee Wintering whalers had to politely put up with this shit, in the 1800's.

Totem und Tabu

❤

The death of a dependent in your care is difficult to bear. That's his point.

IN MY NEXT LIFE I WANT TO BE AN ESKIMO SHAMAN. FULL OF FAITH, COURAGE, AND MYSTICISM

My birth was similar I just found out I am Inuit

They do indeed have reason to have a strong connection with nature, that was the only reason why the Anglos and other b4rbarian 1nvaders have not massacred them yet. (ps: i had to put numbers cause google is censoring these words)

I lived in Alaska and I can tell you that many Native Americans certainly do look Asian. Different groups of Indigenous Americans have different traits/features. It is true though that the shaman looks almost indistinguishable from someone from East Asian.

I like the polar bear pants very expensive to buy.

Beautiful culture

This is not Turkey, the Turks not only live in Turkey fool..

@DritonGusia Gravity is gravity, wheather you're genius, epileptic or insane. A spirit is energy. Wheather in this dimension or another. And yes, there are other dimensions. Yes, there is a scientific explenation for everything. Just because it isn't explained or misunderstood at this time, doesn't mean it won't be in the future. I'm not ignorant though, for I believe in a creator.

Opealuk clan I was adopted by them the name Lucy Craig Everett aunty Dorothy uncle Norbert Emily Mimi Liz and many others I I'm obligated to the Inuit people's quyana

turkish don't speak inuktitut, do a little research on their official site before u say things like that google isuma productions, their movie before this and their next upcoming movie is on there

You just divide those 3 Asian countries which all look VERY different. Faces, head skulls, eye structures, bodies, bones, languages, food and customs. Only similarity they are all called Asians where Japan is off the mainland it is an Island and its people are very different, Koreans are as well as Chinese are all different from each other. If you tell me Indonesian and Chinese look same I might say yes could be as there are many Chinese emigrated to different Asian countries such as Thai etc

BUUUH

That makes no sense. Look at a map and imagine the Bering Land Bridge connecting Asia and the Americas. The Native Americans, at least some for sure, migrated from Asia. I am not sure about every drop of blood in all people who are "categorized" as Asian. What makes a person look the way they do- evolution and adaptation to a climate? Race is culturally constructed. People are how they are. Get over it.

thank you isumaproductions all people hav rules that make little or no sense to outsiderz. why do whites get fussy about the knife and fork being on one side or the other when serving guests ?????? rules come from certain events and such which dictated behavior and pre-cautions/ post cautions whut seemz non-sensical may save your life man iz the strangest being in a universe of strange phenomenon the real danger iz when perspectiv disintegrates into dogma. yokoke

Huge thank you cameraman and i don't have words to describe my appreciation for you inuit people just existing!!

the movie is all inuit, except for Knud and his pals this isuma company is right in the next town from us

@istiklalcaddesi Ah! But you are forgetting the aforementioned Peter Freuchen (best bud and business-partner with Knud Rasmussen), who played the popular novelist and romantic to "Kunuk"'s exacting ethnographer to the American market. His one experience with Hollywood in it's Golden Age in the late thirties' (while filming the movie "Eskimo!") resulted is some of the funniest s**t he ever wrote. The actresses were Japanese-American (Nisei) who recast themselves as Chinese when WWII broke.

@y0utub3r12345678: I agree with "IIIIIIIII0o" -- be proud of who you are. Don't let people tell you one culture is better than the other. This is done for "control" and is also arrogant. Indigenous people have a lot of wisdom and knowledge that non-indigenous people do not understand.

they are turkish shamans

Sulijut Tanna Uqausingit. (The story is true and my calture is strong)

Thumps up if you´re tired of these New age-types always commenting clips like this. Inuit for life, science, knowledge, rights and culture. Not New age/spiritual-bullshit. Inuit-creetings. Ortu

@DritonGusia There is a scientific explanation for absolutely everything. Just because we haven't discovered things scientifically, doesn't mean it shouldn't be existant. People always make that mistake. With that attitude, we wouldn't have learned how to fly.

@sam47764 Hi Sam! haha, i didn't knew who you we're so i just ignored your friend request, i'll add ya! lol ohwell, @y0utub3r12345678 that guy's just jealous that we're inuit :) LOL

I am related to maniilaq

I heve been to Canada 3 times. I love the country. One day, I will visit the Inuit land...

so this is a recreated scene from Knud Rasmussen's journals, right? surely this footage isn't from his 1920's expeditions!? are you referring to a different Knud?

@y0utub3r12345678 No I didn't feel insulted. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

i would have tried my best to avoid going outside. I got cold just looking at them walking through all that wind. "Come i want to show you something outside" Me: Um... i cant i have a cramp in my leg

I have the Holy Spirit to guide me thru the Throne Room of the Lord and Jesus Christ who is in the throne room. For these days are different than the old. For we are the keepers of the Tabernacle and it has been given unto many for us to feast for the dinner supper is ready.

@amicrowaveoven -- Yes, she was very beautiful. I would love to be able to visit these people for a while. I am an indian and I think we have much in common with these brothers from the North.

The woman behind him is his Spirit Guide, whom he banishes at the end of the movie because of his turning to Jesus...

I had interest in this historical memory and was sorely disappointed by the ridiculous giggling at the end of the video. This is award winning material

What does that have to do with this?.. this is about a Shaman and his life, not what he looks like.

what make you think we are black lol? we ASIAN are UNIQUE race not arabian,whitish, blackish.

nuk

creo que estoy con ellos deberian,no hacer lo que hacen ellos ellos lo hacen para vivir,nosotros por lo que dicen,its no good