By Scott Warren
Putting his hand on the boy’s shoulder the old man said, “First you cry, that’s alright; that’s good. You respect the animal. After you have cried, we will pilak – cut it up. When they finished the boy gave that caribou to the old man’s wife’s mother – the oldest person of all – her name was Qutanna – because that was what children did with their first kill. In time, the boy himself became old. He named his grandson Qutan, after that old man’s wife’s mother, in remembrance of the old man’s kindness. But the boy never learned to kill without crying.
