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Margaret Eskilida talks with Millie Buck, Ruth Ann Warden, and Bill Schneider on June 8, 1999 at Millie and Billy's house in Glennallen.
1) Introduction and early childhood memories of Chitina.
school\ Chitina\ tent -- living in\ school -- log cabin\ language -- learning, understanding|
2) Margaret's memories of Chitina when she was a little girl.
town -- little\ houses -- not too many\ Tonsina -- place of birth\ Frank -- brother\ John -- brother\ sisters -- deceased\ Chitina -- moving to\ school -- attending\ copper river\ school -- starting\ trapping -- missed school\ help -- none\ hard living\ dad -- no job\ trapping\ hunting\ road work\ gravel -- none\ horse and wagon|
Kenny Lake\ travel -- sled\ Copper Center\ Chitina\ learning\ students\ traveling -- people helping\ school -- Native children\ school -- attending\ trapping -- none when attending school\ help -- none|
4) Trains coming through Chitina and the first time seeing a car.
train tracks\ boxcars\ cars\ gravel -- putting down\ Kenny Lake -- roadhouse\ Tonsina\ Chitina\ horses\ food\ rooms\ children -- place to eat|
5) Working in a kitchen at the roadhouse and the kind of work people did in the old days.
wood -- stocking\ salary\ horse -- riding\ Kennicott\ July 4th\ road -- cutting open\ road -- Chitina to Tonsina\ gravel truck\ hard work\ shoveling\ plows\ graders|
6) Getting married and starting a family.
learning -- self taught\ work -- dietary kitchen\ work -- raising children\ retirement -- checks\ work -- very hard\ Chitina\ working -- in town\ children -- nine\ stories -- telling them to children\ garden\ planting for winter|
7) Traveling back and forth from Chitina to Anchorage.
Frank -- brother\ Alice -- sister (died)\ Anchorage --worked\ Dad -- old,sick\ dad -- lived with her & Frank\ garden --potatoes, turnips, lettuce, cabbage, carrots\ garden -- big\ enough food for winter\ vegetables -- root cellar\ school -- kept food under floor\ house\ tent -- lived in one for a while|
8) Dad sells wood to make money, fishing and trapping.
dad -- cut wood -- sold for food\ trapping\ fishing\ day fishing\ hunting\ no freezing --dry it\ hanging it up\ king salmon\ fisheries\ nets\ dipnetting\ nets -- twisting\ mother|
9) Older people telling stories and the different kind of stories told for certain situations.
story telling\ sweatbath\ house -- in woods\ thinking -- different\ different hings\ evening -- take steambath, stories then told\ stories -- bedtime stories for children\ stories -- learning, living, survival|
10) Stories and the different kinds told for certain situations.
legends\ stories -- to learn by\ lessons -- morals\ teaching stories|
11) Roadhouses and what it was like to work there.
roadhouse - every 15 miles\ horses and sleds\ great grandfather (Margaret's grandfather)\ Tonsina -- ferry across\ 1st Indian in Alaska to have bussiness license\ Lower Tonsina\ Doc Billum?|