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'''Kikkik''' was an [[Inuit]] woman who, in 1958, was charged with but acquitted of murder, [[child neglect]] and causing the death of one of her children. Her story was told by [[Farley Mowat]].
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== Desperate circumstances ==
During 1957 [[Reindeer|caribou]], the Ihalmiut's main source of food, did not appear. Consequently, the Henik group began to starve during the winter. Kikkik, her husband Hallow (Hallauk), and their children (son Karlak; daughters Ailoyoak, Annecatha, Nesha, and baby Nokahhak [Elisapee]) had their [[igloo]] close to her half-brother Ootek (Ootuk) and his family. Ootek had not been able to provide for his family. Now Ootek told his wife that he was going to the [[trading post]] at Padlei, but went and visited Hallow. Hallow left to go fishing and, after a short period, he was followed by Ootek, who had brought his rifle. Creeping up behind Hallow, who was fishing, Ootek shot him in the back of the head.
Ootek then returned to Kikkik's igloo, but she became suspicious and followed him as he left the igloo. He shot at her but she pushed the rifle aside. She fought with Ootek, who was weak from hunger, and forced him to the ground; he confessed to having murdered Hallow. Sitting on Ootek to hold him down, Kikkik got her son Karlak to give her a knife, but it wasn't sharp enough to kill Ootek. One of her other children then brought her another knife and Kikkik killed Ootek with it.
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== Rescue and trial ==
Kikkik, Karlak, Ailoyoak, and baby Nokahhak were rescued by a [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] aircraft that also was able to find the two stranded girls, one of whom had died. Kikkik was charged with the murder of Ootek, child neglect for abandoning Annecatha, and causing the death of Nesha.
At her trial, in [[Rankin Inlet]], presided over by Judge [[John Sissons]], Kikkik was found not guilty of all charges. Sissons, in his remarks to the jury said the case "demands that we revert our thinking to an earlier age and try to understand Kikkik and her life and her land and her society" and that she should be judged by her culture.
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*[http://www.nwtcourts.ca/Sissons/Kikkik1.htm The girls left in the igloo]
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[[Category:Canadian Inuit people]]
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