Bill Williams with a dog mushing sled he was building.

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Bill Williams

Bill Williams was interviewed in May 2004. The interview was edited and produced by Clinton Brown.

BILL WILLIAMS was born on September 26, 1937, 12 miles above Hughes. He was born the same year that there was a big flood in Hughes. His parents were Lavine and Susie Williams. He grew up in Hughes with his sisters, Alice Ambrose, Rita Koyukuk and Margaret Williams and his brothers Ralph Williams, George Linus and James Williams. When their father was home from Utopia Mining Camp, he would take them hunting, trapping and fishing and taught them a subsistence lifestyle. Bill Williams lived that lifestyle and working at mines and other jobs during the summers. He and his wife Madeline live in Hughes.

The goal of Raven's Story is to record elders' stories, observations, and experiences relating to wildlife, fish, and subsistence in the Koyukuk and middle Yukon areas of interior Alaska. This Raven's Story was produced by Clinton Brown at public radio station KIYU-AM in Galena, Alaska, with the support of Louden Tribal Council and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Click on an audio link below to listen to a story.
H2004-01-24
1) Biography (:45)
2) Growing Up in Camp (2:45)
3) Learning English (2:05)
4) Hunting for Caribou (2:47)
5) Waking Up Early (2:30)
6) Too Cold for Kerosene (3:09)
7) Cold at Camp ( 2:10)
8) Cold For a Long Time (2:50)
9) Trapping With His Sister (5:27)
10) Long Moose Hunting Trip (9:08)
11) Cut Open Boot While Hunting ( 2:57)
12) Too Cold for Dogs ( 3:03)
13) Not So Lucky With Wolverine (3:07)
14) The Spruce Hen and The Bear (5:26)
15) Bigfoot (5:26)
16) Bigfoot Stole Hunting Equipment (5:25)
17) Gold Mining (3:47)
18) Year-Round Subsistence (2:46)
 
 
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