Frederica de Laguna talks about being told that the ancestors of the Tlingit coming from Chitina, bringing copper with them, descendants still singing some Ahtena songs, meeting the Ahtena people for the first time, Vassily George, Copper Center Pete remembering Lt. Allen, matrilineal lines, the clans, the Raven and the Wolf, organization of moieties, slides from the Copper River Valley, Felix Charlie, the cultural importance of landmarks, Long Lucy John, steam baths, Peter Charlie, birch bark cradles carried on the mother's back, Martha Jackson, Andy Ewan, dog packs for carrying things, Kitty McClellan, Adam Sanford, boats they used for travel down the Copper River, Tony Jackson, Peter Charlie's dip net, Martha Jackson's fish wheel, Enid Nicolai, use of small alder branches to spread the fish open to dry, dead-fall traps, Frank Charlie, bow and arrows, Indian potato, Vasilly Georg making her a Russian checkers game, Ahtena potlatches, Billy Douglas giving a potlatch when his wife recovered, Mt. Saint Elias, settlements, chiefs, dialect differences between villages, heirlooms which were preserved from generation to generation, territory being controlled by the village, asking for hunting or fishing privileges, religion, taboos about hunting, treating animals with respect, the Ahtena people trading, trading copper, the Aleut making a journey to trade with the Ahtena, the Ahtena and the Tanaina, the war between the people of Tanacross and the Ahtena, trouble between the Aleut and th Ahtena, seclusion of boys and girls at puberty, restrictions and seclusion of someone who has killed another person, restrictions after the birth of a son, cremation of the dead, the potlatch, mourning songs, and preserving songs.