Percy Jackson: Interview Outline: Section 3 Killing his first animal, which was a muskrat Tape Reference Number: H2002-09-14 Percy Jackson talks with Bill Schneider and Eileen Devinney in Kiana, Alaska on January 28, 2003.

Bill Schneider: I wanted to ask you about the first game that you killed.

Percy Jackson: Let's see. Must be a muskrat.

Bill Schneider: Tell us about that.

Percy Jackson: Yeah. When I was kid, they -- 'cause we don't have .22s that time. They gave me a shotgun. Took some of those pellets out, leave few of them and then shoot the shotgun. That's how I start hunting muskrat.

Eileen Devinney: Were there a lot of muskrat around here at that time?

Percy Jackson: Yes, there was. When I was a kid, there was lots.

Eileen Devinney: Is it different now?

Percy Jackson: I -- I heard they start coming back again. There was hardly any. I heard there's lots of them that's got house right now.

Bill Schneider: When you brought that muskrat home, what did your parents do?

Percy Jackson: She was real -- my mom was real glad about it. She skinned it and hang the meat up, for half dried.

Bill Schneider: Did she give that meat to anyone?

Percy Jackson: No. I think my mother and my dad eat it up.

Bill Schneider: Ah.

Percy Jackson: Because we were only ones that's in the camp.

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