@silvereyedwolf, Your correct, the legend of Sedna, is also told in Nunavut. Though the story I've heard from my dad is a different version -instead she marries a dog, who turns into a man at night and she becomes pregnant with puppies. Her father is angered by that, since he had only wished to humiliate her into marrying a groom of his choosing.With that she is sent to the island with her children, their only source of food being their dog father, who makes trips across the sea ice every day with meat, supplied by her father. One day the father decides that this is troublesome and places rocks inside the husband's bags, which breaks the ice and kills him. After a while the daughter gets worried about the husband, since they have not seen him for days, and she sees her father kayaking in to their island, placing her kids in a stretched out kamiks (traditional boot or shoe made from seal or other hides depending on region, but usually seal since they are then water-proof.) sole, they sail off and become the people of the world. After that the story is basically the same, aside from the bird man or his bird friends.
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@silvereyedwolf, Your correct, the legend of Sedna, is also told in Nunavut. Though the story I've heard from my dad is a different version -instead she marries a dog, who turns into a man at night and she becomes pregnant with puppies. Her father is angered by that, since he had only wished to humiliate her into marrying a groom of his choosing.With that she is sent to the island with her children, their only source of food being their dog father, who makes trips across the sea ice every day with meat, supplied by her father. One day the father decides that this is troublesome and places rocks inside the husband's bags, which breaks the ice and kills him. After a while the daughter gets worried about the husband, since they have not seen him for days, and she sees her father kayaking in to their island, placing her kids in a stretched out kamiks (traditional boot or shoe made from seal or other hides depending on region, but usually seal since they are then water-proof.) sole, they sail off and become the people of the world. After that the story is basically the same, aside from the bird man or his bird friends.