Fast Runner Legend

The website, www.isuma.tv, tells us about the legend behind the film “The Fast Runner”. For example, the website gives us background information on the community in which the legend took place, Igloolik. In these types of communities there was no written language and the legends, such as the legend of Atanarjuat, was passed down through generations and generations of oral traditions. The film “The Fast Runner” brought to life the traditions of the people of Igloolik. It showed us how the Inuit people lived before any other culture intervened with theirs. The audience get to experience how the Inuit society finds foods, finds relationships, and finds ways to survive. The actors in this movie are all full blooded Inuit and the fact that this film shows you all the way in which they adapt to the icy tundra …show more content…
For more reasons than one, but mainly to find different sources of food. In the spring, women would hunt for eggs as well as eat some sort of flowers. They would boil these eggs over a small fire in a rectangular bowl full of water. Once the eggs were cooked they would peel the shells and eat the eggs. As for the flowers they would just picked them and eat the on the spot. The groups would also move to places where there would be larger animals to hunt. Just like in the end of the film, “The Fast Runner”, when Atanarjuat finally came home he arrived with a bunch of meat he acquired by killing a caribou in the mountains.
In the short summer months, the men would start to fish. The ice is unfrozen in places and the types of food sources they can acquire change. Even though it is summer, it is still very cold outside especially on the water and Atanarjuat is still clothed from head to toe. In the film, we see Atanarjuat returning home in a canoe from a big sea of water. As he was out fishing he killed a seal and the group ate the meat raw just as they did with the other meat eaten throughout the