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Employment Opportunity - Kivalliq Inuit Association.Employment Opportunities - GN Department of Human ResourcesĬommunity Coordinator for Women’s Safety, and more….Board Recruitment - Kitikmeot Law Centre.Split Tooth is widely available in hardcover, ebook and audiobook formats, you can also order it through Tagaq’s label, Six Shooter records, along with a white or red sealskin bookmark. Primal and breathtaking, it can be both brutal and beautiful to absorb. That’s because this portion can be challenging to read, like listening to Tagaq’s music, which lies between performance art and throat singing. One commenter in an online review suggested reading Split Tooth when you’re in a stable place. At this point-with scenes involving her conjoining with a wolf and the northern lights-it becomes clear that the book is a coming of age story that is part memoir, part fiction. The second half of the book veers off into a mystical journey as the girl becomes pregnant. Everyone has an elder.”īut Tagaq also talks about the gritty reality of growing up in the Arctic, nightless summer days of aimless and sometimes cruel activity, dark winters and encounters with bullying, violence, sexual abuse and drug use as the girl moves into puberty and on to a job as a cashier: “Someone committed suicide, someone is pregnant, Merry Christmas, Happy Halloween. They looks at us as we look upon the trees, slow but full of longevity. Our confinement to the ground elicits pity. We are slow and lumbering, our language is deep and muddy. “I realize that birds see in a completely different way than we humans do. You can tell she’s not just a viewer of life, but thoughtfully enters into it, through the following passage about snow buntings. These gems of writing alone make Tagaq’s book unique and worthy of reading. Nothing can stop the cacophony of gluttony and procreation about to ensue.” We can smell the footprints of last fall and the new decomposition of all who perished in the grips of winter.”Īnd only someone who has grown up in the North, with Tagaq’s poetic insight, could write that “winter always wins, the sun scoffs. In the spring you smell last fall’s death and this year’s growth…. The green lichen smells different from the black. Take this description of the coming of warmer weather: “Lichen smells sweet. Split Tooth is a work that lends itself to such oral storytelling: the first 100 or so pages of Split Tooth describe a young girl’s childhood in what is now Nunavut with poetic writing and poetry, which are just waiting to be read aloud.

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