H93-36-04
Sarah Simon talks with Wendy Arundale on February 4, 1993 at Peggy Thompson's house in Fairbanks, Alaska about...
1) Her childhood traveling to winter camp with her family.
mother -- parents\ age\ residence -- location\ home\ camp -- winter\ Old Maggie -- grandmother\ Christmas\ dogs -- number of\ dog -- name\ [Athabascan]\ landmarks -- lake\ [Chilatna] (?)\ father\ distance\ Old Man Creek\ people -- lack of\ cache\ sisters -- Bessie, Celia\ babies -- age\ father -- hunting\ Allakaket\ temperature\ trapping\ lynx\ martin\ snare\ brothers -- Walter, Grafton, Sampson\ brother -- death of\ siblings -- order of|
2) Hunting and trapping and rules about eating certain foods.
father -- hunting with\ gun\ axe\ lynx -- packing\ rabbits -- number of\ lynx -- number of\ traps\ snares\ hunting -- moose\ cache\ meat -- storage\ food\ moose -- scarcity\ moose -- bull\ muskrat\ spruce hen\ ptarmigan\ caribou\ trapping -- rules\ lynx -- rules\ rules -- hutlanee\ women -- rules\ age\ babies\ food -- scarcity\ food -- abundance|
3) Rules about what different people could not eat and why, and information about her mother’s family.
animals -- eating\ rules -- food\ rules -- women\ moose -- head\ moose -- neck\ rules -- hutlanee\ [Athabascan]\ cleaning\ grandson\ sickness -- tonsils\ people -- young\ moose -- foot\ caribou -- foot\ elders -- teaching\ moose -- heart\ men -- age\ mother\ consequences -- aging\ strength\ sickness\ Old Maggie -- grandmother\ mother -- siblings\ mother -- ?, Annie\ ?, Leon\ ?, Nate\ ?, Billy\ ?, Big Suzy\ woman -- name\ Bergman, Billy\ Old Maggie -- Athabascan name\ Old Maggie -- husband\ husband -- Athabascan name\ Jones, Eliza\ [Athabascan]|
4) Information about her mother.
Old Maggie -- origin\ Huslia\ creek\ camp -- location of\ [Daklee] (?)\ family -- raising\ cache-- winter\ cache -- summer\ boys -- hunting\ children -- feeding\ Old Maggie -- kids\ hill -- Athabascan name of\ Mark, Peter\ story\ Old Maggie -- move\ Allakaket\ children -- adult\ children -- ages\ children -- girls\ beaver -- house\ moose\ siblings -- order\ mother -- age\ mother -- marriage\ father -- work\ Big Suzy -- friend\ mother -- life span\ father -- life span\ childbirth -- yearly\ stomach -- infection\ mother -- illness|
5) More about her own family, and some memories about getting married.
children\ Sarah\ Mary\ sister -- death\ brother -- death\ girl -- death\ Big Beetus\ ?, Louise\ Paul -- adoption\ Beetus -- death\ Beetus, Sophie -- adoption\ Beetus, Grafton\ ?, Agnes\ ?, Elliot -- adoption\ ?, Mary\ ?, Walter\ Bessie -- marriage\ age\ Simon, Lee -- marriage to\ mothers\ marriage -- arranged\ age -- differences\ games -- baseball\ games -- football\ camp\ grandmother\ town -- stay in\ school -- fourth grade\ spelling bee\ high school\ camp -- spring\ difficulty\ marriage -- age at\ husband\ Chilatna\ tea -- preparation of\ drink -- Athabascan word\ drink -- snow\ tea -- first time drinking|
6) Learning about married life, and more about the winter she was sixteen.
marriage -- learning\ cooking\ Old Maggie\ husband -- Simon, Lee\ work\ learning -- watching\ old people -- help from\ ?, Louise\ ?, Kitty\ Old Man\ ?, Lucy\ ?, Maggie\ ?, Tillie\ ?, Ida\ Katolo\ games -- baseball\ games -- football\ food --dry meat\ food -- salmon strips\ mother -- advice\ food -- cooking\ men -- hunting\ Big Suzy -- death\ advice\ trap\ Big Suzy -- age of\ Old Maggie\ Athabascan name -- meaning of\ Solotna\ Chilatna\ camp\ families\ Old Nate\ Old Thomas\ Old Simon\ fish -- pike\ lake -- name of\ slough\ ?, Lucy\ tent|
7) The winter she was sixteen and hunting for porcupines.
family -- travel\ winter -- camping\ places\ tent\ hill -- Athabascan name\ camp -- spring\ [Athabascan names]\ Old Man Creek\ muskrats -- number of\ trapping\ families\ father -- trapping\ lynx\ pelts -- value\ pelts -- fox\ pelts -- need for\ [Athabascan word] -- porcupine\ axe\ porcupine -- hand\ food\ luck\ porcupine -- speech\ quills -- fear of\ porcupine -- size\ porcupine -- tail\ food -- rules\ rules -- hutlanee\ hands -- cooking\ boiling\ mother\ sister\ stories|
8) Hunting and trapping at spring camp.
porcupine -- story\ book\ camp -- spring\ travel\ supplies -- packing\ spring -- travel\ Allakaket -- return to\ town -- stay in\ father\ boat -- hauling\ food\ Old Man Creek\ Koyukuk River\ sled -- Yukon Sleigh\ hunting\ spring -- water\ hunting -- muskrats\ mother\ [Athabascan]\ shooting -- accuracy\ marksmanship -- learning\ brothers\ shooting -- bull’s eye\ gun -- learning\ teacher -- mother\ Old Maggie\ Aunt Suzy -- death of\ talk\ death -- mourning|
9) The death of her grandmother.
camp\ marriage\ Old Man Creek\ husband\ mother\ Old Maggie -- fall down\ illness\ ?, Nate\ Simon, Lee -- parents\ travel -- boat\ worry\ dreams\ ice -- movement\ Allakaket\ Old Maggie -- illness\ travel -- lack of\ grandmother -- death of\ talk\ body -- preparation of\ body -- washing\ clothes -- clean\ ?, Nate\ ?, Lily -- daughter\ travel -- timing\ Big Suzy\ loss -- difficulty of\ cooking\ ducks\ funeral\ burial\ Allakaket -- graveyard\ camp -- return\ spring\ fishing\ nets\ mother -- visit|
H93-36-05
Sarah Simon talks with Wendy Arundale and Eliza Jones on February 10, 1993 at Peggy Thompson's house in Fairbanks, Alaska about...
1) Fishing and hunting in the spring and cooking for lots of people and having a great time.
Simon, Lee -- husband\ Old Maggie -- death\ husband -- parents\ Old Julius\ fishing\ fish -- net\ fish -- cutting\ husband\ lake\ hunting -- ducks\ Old Man Creek\ mother\ Aunt Suzy\ cooking\ fish\ ducks\ people -- eating\ people -- happiness\ muskrat\ season -- [Athabascan] spring\ [Athabascan]\ water -- level\ water -- speed\ fish camp\ Hope, Ludy\ Eskimo|
2) The interview continues in Athabascan.
Hope, Ludy\ Eskimo\ family relationship\ fish camp\ summer| |
