This nonfiction story I would like for you to hear is told by my great gram and passed to my mom, then told to me.

This is about a man who got lost behind the mountain. When he was trying to find his way back toward Tackchak he came across a pack of wolves.

While he was walking, all of a sudden he heard noises in the trees. He started to run,but he was also very weak and slow. He was wondering what it would be.... He looked behind him and a pack of wolves was chasing after him. He knew they'd catch him anyway so he stopped. Then the wolves started to circle him. Like this

He was starting to feel very frightened but he knew that he couldn't panic. All of a sudden he remembered the old people telling him a story about what he should do when he came across a pack of wolves. The old people told him that he should take off his fur boots and take out the grass and spread the grass in a circle around himself so that the wolves would have to pass the circle of the grass to get to him. But because of the bad smell of human feet they would not cross the circle of grass to get to him. He did just that and when the wolves came up to the grass circle they wouldn't pass it and they left the man alone. And the man lived to tell the story.

By Alexandria Akaluk

as told to Janice Kameroff