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Lela Ahgook is interviewed by Margaret Blackman on August 13, 1990 in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska [sound recording].
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Lela Ahgook is interviewed by Margaret Blackman on August 13, 1990 in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska [sound recording].
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[sound recording].
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1 sound cassette (about 90 min.) : analog.
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Recorded in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska on August 13, 1990.
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Lela Ahgook talks about where she was born, her grandparents, Simon and Susie Paneak, her father hunting all the time, taking care of her siblings after her mother's death, Tulugak Lake, Billy Morry, attending school at the Wrangell Institute, not being able to speak English when she first attended school, her children, Charlie, Richard, Nancy, Mike, Shirley, John Ioka, and Larry, Homer Mekiana, working as the postmaster, writing a column for the Fairbanks daily news-miner, her responsibilities as the senior citizen coordinator, George Paneak, people in the village sharing caribou with the elders, Richard Guthrie, her trip to Hawaii with the schoolchildren from Anaktuvuk Pass, the amount of freedom young children have in the village, camping on the weekends and what she would like outsiders to know about her village.
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