Moonsong Glacier tigiganniak

kilgitsuk explained that these hard-flesh hunters were his people, and that their blood were also in his sons. but one had gone with the man's wife, and the other had clung to the sunshine ways. this he understood, for they were everywhere in this place. the moonmother and her daughters determined what was practiced, he felt.
he nudged the trader's shoulder with his own. "a man who tries too hard to be a strong ancestor will overlook what it means to be a father."' this was something said to me by my own. he will have pride to know i married even if i did not marry a seal hunter woman. even if i never return. think this of your own, kilgitsuk. tartok lives in their blood even if they do not carry the name. it can never die."