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Annie Bennett is interviewed by Madonna Moss in Juneau, Alaska on May 6, 1981 [sound recording].
Title:
Annie Bennett is interviewed by Madonna Moss in Juneau, Alaska on May 6, 1981 [sound recording].
JLCTITLE245:
[sound recording].
Physical Description:
1 audiocassette (ca. 90 min.)
Event Note:
Recorded on May 6, 1981 in Juneau, Alaska.
Abstract:
On Part One, Annie Bennett talks about her family history, site names and their significance, claiming her ancestors' land so that her grandchildren can come there someday, moving to Juneau to get Elsie's children educated, living at Johnson's Point when she was a child, how they lived at Johnson's Point as one big family, description of her family's smoke house at Johnson's Point, and the trees and berries at the smoke house.

On Part Two, Annie Bennett talks about her family's ancestry, putting a claim on their family's pieces of land, Thomas Bennett's grandmother building the first school in Angoon and someone putting a bigger school on the property without their permision, description of a picture with Annie and her brother and Elsie John, how they stored their vegetables in underground pits, the fort at (Dah hak Kanadat?), story about the olden days when the southern people (Tshimsians) came to the fort and tricked them, but weren't bitter or mean, and the Gamble family and their house in Juneau.
Location of Originals:
Alaska Region- Forest Service- USDA, P.O. Box 21628, Juneau, AK 99802-1628.
Restrictions on Access:
Access restricted, inquire at Oral History office.
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