Henry Jackson Sr.: Interview Outline: Section 1 Introduction, parents, and traveling with dogs Tape Reference Number: H2002-09-01 Henry Jackson Sr. talks with Bill Schneider, Hazel Apok, and Eileen Devinney in Kiana, Alaska on February 27, 2002.

Bill Schneider: Today is February 27th --

Henry Jackson, Sr.: Uh-huh.

Bill Schneider: -- 2002.

Henry Jackson, Sr.: Uh-hum.

Bill Schneider: And we're here with Henry Jackson --

Henry Jackson, Sr.: Yes.

Bill Schneider: -- tonight. I'm Bill Schneider. Hazel Apok is here and Ms. Eileen Devinney. And we really appreciate your coming over and talking a little bit about Kiana and a little bit about the heritage here and maybe looking at some pictures and talking about them.

Henry Jackson, Sr.: Uh-hum.

Bill Schneider: How did you -- how did you end up in Kiana?

Henry Jackson, Sr.: Born and raised here.

Bill Schneider: How about your parents?

Henry Jackson, Sr.: Well, my dad is from lower, mouth of the river someplace down there. My mother is from upriver, Kobuk. And I don't know how they get together. And they -- they go by boats, I guess, or dog team. I don't know.

Bill Schneider: I'll be walking around here just checking things out, making sure everything is working.

Hazel Apok: See, you could see yourself on the camera there. (Indiscernible.)

Eileen Devinney: Or don't look that way if you don't want to.

Hazel Apok: So you were born in the old village?

Henry Jackson, Sr.: Yeah. Old village over here, yeah. Born and raised here. 77 years old now, you know. In my young days they had nothing but dogs, you know, no machines, no snow machines. Only dogs to travel with. Summertime by boats. Hardly any outboards either. I mean. Two, three of them have five-horse boats and some of them had outboard boats alright, but not all of us.

Bill Schneider: So that's something maybe we ought to talk about that few people know about tracking up river with dogs pulling the boat.

Henry Jackson, Sr.: Yeah. That's how we get up to Squirrel River (map) with dogs, in the boat with dogs. I mean, my family.

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