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 This project contains oral history interviews and photographs from Native and non-Native people who live near or have been associated with the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, located in the central Brooks Range of northern Alaska. In the early 1990s, the National Park Service funded the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program to conduct interviews in Hughes, Huslia, Alatna, Allakaket, Anaktuvuk Pass, Wiseman, Bettles, and with Park Service employees about their lives and experiences related to the Park. The material was put into a Macintosh only Hypercard computer program and was accessible at the University and the Bettles Visitor Center. In 2000, Bill Burke and Jarrod Decker of the UAF Oral History Program began to convert the program to a web-based format. From 2002 to 2004, additional interviews were conducted with people from a wider variety of backgrounds with experiences related to the Park from before it received official national park status in 1980. The addition of these interviews and the final Internet program were completed by Marla Statscewich and Marie Mitchell of the UAF Oral History Program.
Interviewers for this project were William Schneider, David Krupa, Wendy Arundale, Dan O'Neill, Steve Ulvi, and Karen Brewster. |
