Roger Atoruk: Interview Outline: Section 3 Photo of Roger's mother and father Tape Reference Number: H2002-09-07 Roger Atoruk talks with Bill Schneider, Hazel Apok, and Eileen Devinney in Kiana, Alaska on February 27, 2002

Roger Atoruk: My mother and my father. Nellie and Peter Atoruk.

Bill Schneider: Uh-hum.

Roger Atoruk: My father was born around 1902. I don't know what year my mother was born. But she died in 1941, October 1941. I was only 11 years old when she died. She is a skin sewer. She's -- all these fur parkas, she made those out of reindeer - spotted reindeer. And this one is made out of sheep, sheepskin. And all the mukluks, she sewed them. And I used to have a -- a new parka every year. I wore out one parka a year. One year. And I had a sheepskin parka or a spotted fawn. That's all I have to say about this picture.

Bill Schneider: Okay.

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