Cecil Martin talks about his personal background, his mother, Marie Dennis coming from Tanacross, his maternal grandfather, Gene Henry, coming from Batzulnetas, his grandfather trapping and hunting in the upper Copper River area including around Copper Lake and Tanada Lake, Trail Creek, his grandfather traveling to Mentasta through Indian Pass, growing up in Dot Lake, going to Batzulnetas on the Copper River for fishing, their property, his grandfather knowing all the different fish and which streams they came from, Katie John's family on Tanada Creek, hunting with his grandfather, his grandfather going down to Gakona and Copper Center by dog team, his great grandfather, Banzaneta Billy Henry, hunting in the park (Wrangell-St. Elias National Park) versus hunting at Dot Lake, differences in the animal populations, trapping, the current population of Dot Lake, fire fighting, fire fighting outside of Alaska, why people are moving away from Dot Lake, stories his grandfather told him about catching ptarmigan, running a dog team and hunting sheep, caribou migrating through the Batzulnetas region, his grandfather hunting in the mountains above Mentasta, his father trading dried fish, people moving to Tanacross because of diseases in the 1930s, his grandfather working for the Alaska Road Commission, changes he has seen in Dot Lake, the group home that used to be in Dot Lake, hockey rinks in the past, gardens in Dot Lake, going down to their property for fish camp, Old Nicolai walking from Chistochina to Batzulnetas, moose, his grandfather telling him about caribou hunting and wolf bounties, his grandfather walking from Batzulnetas to Tanacross, Mitchell's Ranch, more people living at Dot Lake in the past, why people settled in Dot Lake, his grandfather selling furs to Dave James from Northway, and Doris Charles.