ABSTRACT
The author was raised with the privilege of growing up practicing Inuvialuit traditions, as well as being exposed to the southern world. Her parents, James and Maureen Pokiak, have raised her and her siblings, Jacob and Rebecca, so that they know their cultural traditions but are also capable of living away from home. Her mom, a farm girl from Saskatchewan, moved to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (NWT) in northern Canada, to teach in the early 1970s. Here she met her dad, who grew up in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, where Inuvialuit have lived for generations. Working for Parks Canada was an excellent way to learn about archaeology and the outdoors. Working outside was the most rewarding. All of these experiences doing archaeology increased her interest in anthropology, and she began to look for other possible related experiences she could take advantage of.
