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Lloyd and Amelia DeWilde speak in an edited radio broadcast on KIYU-AM, from an interview conducted by Mike Spindler on Billy Hawk Creek, 40 miles from Huslia, Alaska on April 15, 1999 [sound recording].
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Lloyd and Amelia DeWilde speak in an edited radio broadcast on KIYU-AM, from an interview conducted by Mike Spindler on Billy Hawk Creek, 40 miles from Huslia, Alaska on April 15, 1999 [sound recording].
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[sound recording].
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3 sound compact discs (80 min.): digital.
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Raven's Story tapes
General Note:
The full original interview is contained on audiocassettes H2001-06-03 Pts. 1-3.
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Event Note:
Recorded on Billy Hawk Creek, 40 miles from Huslia, Alaska on April 15, 1999.
Abstract:
Lloyd and Amelia DeWilde speak in an edited radio broadcast on KIYU-AM, from an interview conducted by Mike Spindler on Billy Hawk Creek, 40 miles from Huslia, Alaska on April 15, 1999. On the first CD they talk about subsistence seasons; geese; ducks; moose; moose and grayling; caribou; kids hunting caribou; bear abundance; killing eight bears; bears and cabins; hunting bears in their dens; beavers as food; trapping beavers; muskrat; wolf abundance; wolves coming too close; and trapping.
On the second CD, the DeWildes talk about snowshoe hares; pike and whitefish; salmon; nearly running out of food; weather; wildland fire and revegetation; wildland fire affecting wildlife; berries; floods; gardens; freighting supplies; health while living out at camp; parasite illness; lifestyle, from poor to rich; nomadic lifestyle; and life at camp.
On the third CD, Amelia DeWilde discusses being weathered in at Ruby; meeting Lloyd "Blondie" in Ruby; losing a month; home births in the bush; babies in a tent in winter; a lucky rescue; gangrene illness and going into a coma; recovery from coma; relearning life skills after coma; and spirituality.
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