Ukalitsiaq is the name of a young tunit woman living a lonely existence among family and fellows in the neighbourhood of Smith Sound, in northernmost Greenland. Her life changes dramatically one summer when Umimmak arrives at her village. He has travelled to her settlement from far away in order to barter for meteoric iron, but also to take Ukalitsiaq as his apprentice. Together they travel to distant areas and through the darkest nooks and crannies of their minds. The story takes place in the 12th century, exactly at the time when inuit for the first time crossed the large delta at the mouth of the mackenzie-river, on the border between present day Alaska and Canada. Within a few generations, the inuit had settled all parts of arctic Canada and Greenland, and the Tunit had disappeared into the mist of history.
The Ermine/Ukalitsiaq is the second volume in the series"Oqaluttuaq/Stories" and is produced in close collaboration between the Greenlandic ili8nniusiorfik schoolbook company and the national museum of Denmark.
 
Nuka Godtfredsen, Martin Appelt, Ilinniusiorfik 2013, 60 pages