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the "little people" - but we will save these for a future issue of Nexus. In the meantime though, we'll leave you with this tantaliser from the Hi on ready to appear in front of you, just say, ‘Hi little guy’, and be nice to them and in the future they will be no more shy," said the Inuktitut-speaking Pudluk, MLA for the High Arctic. “T'm asking the federal government, do not make any study of them for a while yet," a smiling Pudluk added. The legend of the little people - a tribe of about 70, metre-high warriors clothed in traditional caribou skins who tote bows and arrows above the Arctic There are strange stories afoot, about the "little people". These are more than just pygmies, these are tales of hidden ‘tribes’ of small people who generally live deep underground, or in remote wilderness areas. Taken from The Edmonton Journal, Sunday, November 4th, 1990. Arctic “little people" reported sight- ed. Australia has its share of both white people and Aboriginals, who have seen Laurie Sarkadi, Journal Northern Bureaus Yellowknife. Ludy Pudluk was- n't belittling the situ- ation when he gave the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly a lesson on how to greet a tiny tribe of little people said to roam the High Arctic. He just wanted to make sure the shy, but ferocious mini- nomads are treated with respect. “When they're Circle - has resurfaced with recent sightings at the Cambridge Bay dump. Some people of the Arctic Ocean coastal community are so convinced the little people exist, they have even tried to coax them into town. "People are leaving food out there, hoping if they were out there they'd take it and come into town and try to be friendly," Sean Peterson, recreational director for the Inuit hamlet of 1,000 people, said in a telephone interview. Peterson, 30, said he believes it's pos- sible a nomadic tribe of 60-70 little people could have evaded detection all they're 54eNEXUS JUNE-JULY 1992 a rr "LITTLE PEOPLE"