Qargi

The Qargi was the place where men built their boats, repaired their equipment, took sweat baths, educated young boys, and hosted community dances.

Young boys and men learned to make tools and weapons while they listened to the traditions of their forefathers.

[4] The qargi was a combination courthouse, church, workshop, dance hall, and received center, two or three times the size of a typical house.

[8] In many Iñupiat communities the qargi was the first institution to vanish as churches and schools became the dominant forces of change.

The information taught to students in the qaygiq included history, values, rules, regulations, and survival methods.