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About Flour

A story about the very first time that the Inuit saw flour.

For hundreds of years, for thousands of years, Inuit ate only foods that came from the land and the sea around them. They hunted and fished for foods such as cod, walrus, seal, whale and caribou. They gathered berries, mussels and plants for making tea. All their food came from the area where the Inuit lived.

Then the first traders arrived. They were Qallunaat [non-Inuit people], and they brought foods from faraway lands to the Inuit homeland.

This story is about what happened when Inuit first saw flour.

When Inuit first saw flour they were astonished. Inuit did not know about flour.
Inuit did not know what flour was.
Inuit did not know about the purpose of flour.
Inuit did not know how to use flour.
One day, not knowing what it was, some Inuit opened a bag of flour.
They grabbed the flour in their hands.
They blew the flour into the air.
They let the flour fluff fly.
They created a fluffy cloud of flour powder.
The Inuit emptied the entire bag of flour.
The Inuit were completely enchanted with the wonder of seeing flour for the first time.

They laughed and laughed.

And so it is said that we are often amazed and surprised by something new… but later, our amazement seems very funny.

Tip

Ask the children if they have had a funny experience with something that was new to them.

Excerpt from: Unikkaangualaurtaa (Let's Tell a Story)