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During the 1950s’ famine in the Canadian
Arctic, Kikkik, an Inuk woman, killed a man
in self-defense and then found herself having to leave two of her five children on the tundra. She was tried for murder and criminal negligence, and subsequently acquitted. Her daughter, Elisapee Karetak, who lives in Arviat, Nunavut, has spent many years tracing the events of her family’s story. Elisapee’s brothers and sisters as well as many members of the Inuit community who lived through the ordeal recount their memories.
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