Leopa Akpalialuk

Leopa Akpalialuk was born in 1951 in an outpost camp across Cumberland Sound. His testimony contains information about dog sickness and dog killing. Right after he relocated to Pangnirtung around 1966, he witnessed an RCMP officer and an Inuk constable shooting his father’s female dog, which had puppies. Leopa remembers that according to the Inuit custom, female dogs with puppies were not to be tied up.