The Inuit people from Alaska to Greenland composed drum-dance songs, or pisiit (singular: pisiq). A drum-dance song is also called an “ayaya,” the vocable (syllables without dictionary definition) that serves as a refrain in drum-dance songs across the Arctic. This research is based on a study of drum-dance songs collected from the northern Baffin Island communities of Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) and Igloolik in 1976 and 1977 and Ikpiarjuk (Arctic Bay) in 1964 and 1985 (Conlon 1992). Native people from this eastern Arctic area of Nunavut, Canada are called Iglulik Inuit.