1) A story of a “wild women” and “woodsmen” in times of starvation.
starvation\ fish -- shortage\ weather\ hunters\ moose\ temperature\ hunger\ malnutrition\ snowshoes\ sleds\ survival\ woodsmen\ Tanana\ Lower Yukon\ Anvik\ Koyukuk River\ woman -- wild\ name\ village\ [Athabascan word] -- “bogey man’s town”\ medicine people\ beliefs\ potion\ men -- young\ capture\ fish -- roe\ story -- authenticity|
2) Medicine men and their powers to heal and where the powers came from.
[Athabascan]\ Mackenzie River\ [Athabascan]\ understanding\ medicine men\ Auntie Lucy\ Grandma Essau(?)\ Old Man Peter\ man -- death\ Tanana\ Justin, Frank\ camp -- spring\ Old Mission\ ?, Edwin\ gunshot -- .22\ morning -- frost\ travel\ wound -- lung\ doctor\ power -- magical\ bullet\ healing\ Albert Sr., Lee -- death\ Tanana -- bank\ August\ building -- moving\ raft\ house\ Galena\ faith\ treatment\ power -- acquisition\ weather\ belief\ power -- inheritance\ clairvoyance\ ?, Lucy|
3) More about medicine men and women and spirits.
power\ remedies\ help\ doctor\ headache -- food poisoning\ coma -- death\ midnight\ medicine woman\ object -- in hand\ object -- alive\ papers -- cigarette\ paper -- black\ urine -- young girl\ can opener -- use of\ recovery\ sickness\ medicine\ kerchiefs -- white\ stitches\ vomit\ hunting knife\ blood\ tricks\ magicians\ spirit -- departure\ Indians\ white people\ dictionary\ ghost\ spirit -- wandering\ daughter -- sickness\ river\ sound\ wind\ Titus, Henry -- tent\ kids\ mattress -- wolfskin\ clothes -- string|
4) Spiritual beliefs about death.
medicine woman\ Jurite, Nate\ husband -- spirit\ spirit -- gone\ voyage\ spirit -- transport\ packsack\ kerchief\ spirit -- walking\ spirit -- size\ spirit -- vision\ spirit -- recovery\ spirit -- sighting\ indication -- death\ belief\ father -- medicine man\ mother -- medicine woman\ brothers -- whistling\ smokehouse\ dog -- cocker spaniel\ fish -- packing\ dog -- Dixie\ drowning\ swimming\ wind -- beach\ beach -- ice\ dog -- death\ death -- sudden\ outside -- cities\ man -- wife|
5) Pauline tells a story about a bear.
Dawson\ bear -- brown\ [tape break]\ Whitehorse -- arrival\ clothing -- Presley, Elvis\ fox -- marriage\ canoe\ Dawson\ frogs\ mink\ canyon\ crow -- medicine\ river\ name -- [Athabascan]\ clothes -- torn off\ heat|
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