Nuligak tells us of games played during the Polar Night Festivals. One game begins when the game organizer is heard to say, "Tonight the Itkrilit, the Indian, will come." It is mostly the children who hear this, and they are left to wonder.
Nuligak writes:
"The Indian had a knife made of hard wood, and as someone got quite close to him, he drew his knife. He would have struck had not the Chief spoken severely to him. The Indian had strange clothes. His long hair, hiding his face, almost touched the floor as he danced. Whenever the Inuit went to war and killed Indians, they would select those with long hair, tearing it off their heads and scalping them." (19-20)
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