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KAREN: So what made you decide to go into health aide work?

BARBARA: Well, I always wanted to be a nurse, but because of not -- I didn't go to any schooling for it, so I knew my grandmother, I was always -- was here when she took care of people. You know.

And then when I was in Angoon, I was adopted by Elizabeth Jack, who is also a midwife in Angoon. And so I -- I helped her a lot with things that she was doing. And then I started helping people.

And then in 1968, the Health Aide Program started. So I went to training for a little while. It was mostly basic, you know, basic training at first, and then we went into, like, four phases of training. Four sessions.

And then we got certified as health aides. And then when we did our preceptorship, we became health practitioners.

KAREN: Oh, okay.

BARBARA: So. I did -- I think it was --