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Henry Nashaknik is interviewed by Wendy Arundale and Bill Schneider on March 15, 1982 in Barrow, Alaska. [sound recording].
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Henry Nashaknik is interviewed by Wendy Arundale and Bill Schneider on March 15, 1982 in Barrow, Alaska. [sound recording].
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[sound recording].
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Physical Description:
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.) : analog.
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Chipp-Ikpikpuk and Meade River project collection
General Note:
Typed summary and transcript available in Oral History office. This interview is copyrighted by the Oral History Program. For information about use, please consult the "Copyright Information" statement at the bottom of the interview page. To get to the interview page, click on the link at the bottom of this record.
Event Note:
Recorded March 13, 1982 in Barrow, Alaska.
Abstract:
Henry Nashaknik is interviewed by Wendy Arundale and Bill Schneider on March 15, 1982 in Barrow, Alaska. Elizabeth Hollingsworth translates. Nashaknik talks about where he was born and raised; when and why he first went up the Meade and the Ikpikpuk; his camp at Atqasuk and others in the area; camping near Qikiqtaqturuq and Anaulibiaq; how long he stayed in the Atqasuk area and working as a miner while there; driving Cat trains from Atqasuk to Barrow; why he moved to Atqasuk originally; an epidemic in the Atqasuk area; hunting for caribou and learning their movements; changes over time in the availability and movement of caribou; Sifixxak and how they drove caribou into the lake there; time he spent trapping before working at the coal mine; placenames (referring to a map); his time as a reindeer herder; sites on the Meade River; and how far he had to travel to work his trapline on the Meade.
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Language:
English, Inupiaq.