Joseph Senungetuk is interviewed by an unidentified interviewer in Fairbanks, Alaska in the 1970s.
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Joseph Senungetuk is interviewed by an unidentified interviewer in Fairbanks, Alaska in the 1970s.
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1 audiotape reel (approximately 29 min.) : analog.
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The collection was compiled with the assistance of a MDTA grant from the Department of Education.
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Recorded in Fairbanks, Alaska in the 1970s.
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Joseph Senungetuk talks about working as an instructor for a program under the public service area of he University of Alaska, the Village Art Upgrade Program, attending the San Francisco Art Institute, working for the American Indian Historical Society in San Francisco, being asked to do a book about his past experiences in Alaska as an Alaska Native, working for the Indian Arts and Crafts Board in Sitka, deciding to go on for a degree and applying to the San Francisco Art Institute, graduating from Nome High School, attending the University of Alaska from 1959-61, his early life in Wales, his family moving to Nome when he was eleven years old, subsistence activities in the Wale region, loss of his culture when he was at Nome, his involvement with the Alaska State Humanities Forum and the Northern Education Research Project, and visiting twenty communities with the Village Art Upgrade Program.
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