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Tingivik Tatqiq: September Moon
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61 Tingivik Tatqiq: September Moon Ukiaksraq: Early Fall Moon when the birds fly south Inukshuk: A scarecrow rock structure made by piling up stones in order to steer caribou in a certain direction. Our time when bear, moose, and caribou are hunted, then put away for winter. Her/my many wounds close. Fish are cleaned, dried like my eyelids with alder wood splints she/I gather/s Masu wild potatoes placed in sea oil. Tinniks or bearberries purple like her/my veins picked in caribou fat. She is/I am a Scarecrow mixed with Bear with pilot bread like a wafer of eucharist to control the herd. ...