Legends I: An Inuit Journey

Ancient stories depicting life and creation from traditional Inuit oral legends, retold, dramatized and recorded in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

An Inuit Journey is the start of of CBC Radio's Legends Project, a compilation of traditional oral stories, legends and histories of Canada's Inuit and First Nations people.

We begin in Nunavut, with ancient stories depicting life and creation, as told by Elders living on Baffin Island. There's the orphan shaman, a boy with special powers who is disregarded by his community, but is the only one who can find two missing sisters. The beautiful Sedna marries a raven and creates the giant whales, the seals and all the other creatures of the sea. Starvation leads a man to the depths of cruelty, and how mosquitos were created.