{"id":252571,"date":"2026-07-02T12:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pauktuutit.ca\/?post_type=episode&#038;p=252571"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:10:11","slug":"its-not-breaking-tradition-if-women-have-always-done-it","status":"publish","type":"episode","link":"https:\/\/pauktuutit.ca\/iu\/episode\/its-not-breaking-tradition-if-women-have-always-done-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not breaking tradition if women have always done it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Description: <\/strong>Living on the land in the North called for doing what needed to be done. By everyone. Although traditional gender roles and expectations existed \u2014 men typically hunted and harvested, while women cooked and cared for children \u2014 the realities of individual families meant that wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters did what was needed in the moment, even if it wasn&#8217;t \u201ctraditional\u201d. In this episode of Our Stories, produced by Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, host Natalie Ittinuar speaks with women from across Inuit Nunangat about their experiences with gender roles both in the past and today.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests (in order of appearance):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nellie Enalik<\/li>\n<li>Shirley Kisoun<\/li>\n<li>Tanya Gruben<\/li>\n<li>Crystal Lennie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mentioned in this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada: <a href=\"https:\/\/pauktuutit.ca\">pauktuutit.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThis Is the Life\u201d Women\u2019s Role in Food Provisioning in Paulatuuq, Northwest Territories by Zoe Todd (a chapter in Living on the Land): <a href=\"https:\/\/read.aupress.ca\/read\/living-on-the-land\/section\/42662551-6eb6-4268-8794-ae5854a4ee91\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/read.aupress.ca\/read\/living-on-the-land\/section\/42662551-6eb6-4268-8794-ae5854a4ee91<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":252435,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"class_list":["post-252571","episode","type-episode","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s not breaking tradition if women have always done it | \u1438\u1405\u1483\u1451\u144e\u1466<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pauktuutit.ca\/episode\/its-not-breaking-tradition-if-women-have-always-done-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"iu_CA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It\u2019s not breaking tradition if women have always done it | \u1438\u1405\u1483\u1451\u144e\u1466\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Description: Living on the land in the North called for doing what needed to be done. 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