Percy Jackson: Interview Outline: Section 1 Growing up with his parents and his father being a reindeer herder Tape Reference Number: H2002-09-14 Percy Jackson talks with Bill Schneider and Eileen Devinney in Kiana, Alaska on January 28, 2003.

Bill Schneider: Today is January 28th, 2003, and Eileen Devinney is here, I'm Bill Schneider. And we have the pleasure this morning of doing an interview with Percy Jackson.

Percy Jackson: Uh-hum.

Bill Schneider: So Percy, thanks a lot for making the time to do this. We were hoping to interview you for a long time.

Percy Jackson: Uh-hum. Okay.

Bill Schneider: And last time we were here you weren't feeling so well. So tell us -- tell us a little bit about what you first remember when you were a young kid growing up with your parents. Where were you living and what was life like?

Percy Jackson: Oh, mostly reindeer herders. That's the place where I grew up.

Bill Schneider: Oh.

Percy Jackson: When I was young.

Eileen Devinney: When were you born, Percy?

Percy Jackson: 1923. Around the bend up here, Squirrel River.

Eileen Devinney: Oh, really.

Percy Jackson: Reindeers camp, reindeer herder's camp.

Bill Schneider: And how long were your parents reindeer herding?

Percy Jackson: Quite awhile. Until I start schooling. But most of the time we used -- we used to go up Kittyways, further up, about maybe 12 miles up, Kobuk. And go to that fish camp. Every summer we used to go up there to that fish camp. I had a hard time seining myself.

Eileen Devinney: Did you seine by yourself?

Percy Jackson: My -- my mom.

Eileen Devinney: Oh.

Percy Jackson: Pretty weak in those days. Hardly pulled that boat, when my mom hold the net. And I first went to school in Noorvik. I couldn't go to school here, first year. I think we just stayed down there a couple years in Noorvik, and move up here again. We used to have a house way up the old ridge over there. I think we were the last house towards Squirrel River, those days. That's the time I shot that crazy wolf when I was a teenager.

Bill Schneider: Oh, you better tell us that story.

Percy Jackson: About the wolf?

Bill Schneider: Yeah.

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