Dinner with Leroy Oenga Jr. and family, part 2 of 7: his boys come out and dance

Both Leroy and wife Clara are from Point Hope and keep their ties to the village strong. Leroy put on a DVD of the 1993 Kivgiq and soon The Tikigaq Traditional Dancers of Point Hope were dancing on the screen. I had been there and had photographed it, but as we watched Tikigaq dance Leroy told me things about what they were doing I had not known.

His boys, Gevin Ryan Tigluk and Devean Bryan Tingook, heard the drumming and singing, came over and performed one dance with Tikigaq of 1993, their relatives and ancestors. These were the people and this was the dance group Leroy himself learned to drum, sing, and dance with, who he went to Kivgig with. In fact, I got to see him dancing with them on the screen, looking very much like his sons do now.

Text added at 10:09 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 57 and counting.