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Atungak

from My All To You by Beatrice Deer

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lyrics

Atungak

Angakkuk Atungak nunarjuami kaivallaigumanniquq
Asianik arnataarluni
uqilanirsamik, uvikkaunirsaapimmik

Inunnuupatsuni aliananngituut qanuinngitunullu
Inuusirmini ingirragami
Arnanga malittilugu

Uqilanirpaumat tigujavininga
piarartaalirniquq atausiunngitumik
Nunaminut utisijuvinialuuk
Kaivallaigiiramik nunarjuamik
Kaivallaigamik

Ittururqajanngituq taanna Atungak angakkualuugami
Qiturngaqaavinirminut takunialirniquq
Naniimmangaatik qaujimagami

Nippatualummut tikippuq irniminut
Sunauvva inutuqaulirtumut
Ningiurmut itirnirivuq anirramiittumut
Paniapiutillugu qimalaurtavinirminut
Sapangarnik minarsugu

Atungak translation:
The shaman Atungak wanted to circle the world
So he got a younger wife, who can run fast with him

He met people along his way
Sometimes good people, sometimes unpleasant people, sometimes alright
As he journeyed in life with his wife

The wife who ran faster now bore more children than one
So they returned to their land
As they finished seeing the world

Angakuk was unable to age because he was a shaman
He wanted to return to his first children
He knew where they were

He reached his son on the ice who was waiting at a seal breathing hole
And behold an old man
He also entered into an old woman’s home
The home he left when she was just a little girl
He brought her glass beads as gifts

credits

from My All To You, released May 11, 2018
Beatrice Deer - lead vocals and traditional inuit throat singing
Christopher McCarron - guitars
Jordey Tucker - guitar and lap steel
Mark Wheaton - drums
Michael Felber - bass
Parker Shper - piano
Pauyungie Nutaraaluk - traditional inuit throat singing on tracks 2, 3 & 5
Pietro Amato - keyboards

Produced by Mark "Bucky" Wheaton
Engineered and Mixed by David Smith at Breakglass, 2017
Mastered by Ryan Morey
Art by Joseph Yarmush
Executive producer Michael Felber

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Beatrice Deer Quaqtaq, Québec

Canadian Aboriginal Music Award-winning singer-songwriter Beatrice Deer hails from Nunavik. Half-Inuk and half-Mohawk, Deer left her small hometown of Quaqtaq, Quebec (population: 376) in 2007 and moved to Montreal. Her themes range from classical Inuit folk tales and legends to the importance of finding understanding and the search for meaning within personal growth. ... more

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