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Only a Dream. Distribution alone is a monumental problem. In the Eastern dialect, Inuktitut's circulation is limited to some 2,000 families, so widely strewn that the magazine must eventually be carried, over months, by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Hudson's Bay traders, and dog sled; to reach Eskimos in Canada's Western north, Inuktitut will print a separate edition in the Roman characters familiar to that region. The magazine must go out in spring before the Arctic thaw, in summer after the river ice has melted, in fall before the freeze, and in winter before the curtain of the Arctic night.
Editor Williamson foresees the time when the magazine will become an Eskimo business venture, with Eskimo publishers, subscription solicitors and admen. At present, that is only piyumagiamik, a dream.
* Sample: nagligivara (I love him), nagliget-yangelagit (I do not love you), nagligelautyan-gelagit (did I not love you?), nagligeungnange-gupko (if I am not able to love him).