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Cover image for Dora Hugo is interviewed by Margaret Blackman and Ed Hall with Lela Ahgook translating on July 30- August 16, 1989 in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska [sound recording].
Dora Hugo is interviewed by Margaret Blackman and Ed Hall with Lela Ahgook translating on July 30- August 16, 1989 in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska [sound recording].
Title:
Dora Hugo is interviewed by Margaret Blackman and Ed Hall with Lela Ahgook translating on July 30- August 16, 1989 in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska [sound recording].
JLCTITLE245:
[sound recording].
Physical Description:
5 sound cassettes (about 90 min.) : analog.
Event Note:
Recorded in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska on July 30-August 16, 1989.
Abstract:
H97-65-13 Dora talks about her family, Maptigak and Minnie Morry, her siblings, Amanilla, John, Billy, Peter, Kayak, Elizabeth, Amos, Rhoda, and Abraham, Dora's children, Anna and Alice, living on the Sheenjek River, coastal areas and on the Colville River, moving around with the caribou, Tom Warden, her mother's illness, traveling along the coast to the Colville River to see Amanilla, moving to the Killik River area, hunting seals in the summer, moving to the Kobuk River area, trading furs for supplies, marrying her husband, John Hugo, and trading with Harry Brown.

H97-65-14 Dora Hugo talks about marriage customs, her father choosing John Hugo to be her husband, getting married in Kobuk, bringing furs to trade at Kobuk, wolf bounties, the types of things they bought at the trading post, sewing with sinew, being conservative with gun shells, scarce supplies during the war, staying with her family after her marriage, Maptigak, her paternal grandparent coming from Russia, visitors from Russia, regional names, times of starvation while they were at Beechey Point and Demarcation Bay, the type of clothing they wore while they lived on the Killik, buying clothing at the trading post, the first radio she heard, Frank Rulland, Homer Mekiana, Lela's father exchanging written information with others, leaving notes for people when they left camp, celebrating Christmas and New Year while they were living on the Killik River, using clocks and watches.

H97-65-15 Dora Hugo talks about the skin tents they used, the bear skin door, using willow branches on the floor of the tent, using caribou skins on the floor of the tent, sheep and caribou skin bedding, where the children slept in the tent, using kerosene and Eskimo lamps, using seal or oogruk for the window on the tent, who took care of the dog team, materials used for dog harnesses and tow ropes, pregnancy and childbirth, working as a midwife, her husbands trading partners, story telling and how they were treated when they first went to Ft. Yukon.

H97-65-16 Dora Hugo talks about the move from the Killik River area to Tulugak in 1949, Maptigak and Old Man Hugo deciding to move, Simon Paneak, crossing the Anaktuvuk River, more game being available in the Tulugak region, going to trade at Bettles, trading with Pat O'Connell, the types of items they traded, flying to Fairbanks for medical treatment, Mary Darling, living in Tacoma, Washington when she had being treated for tuberculosis, keeping in touch with her family, her opinion of Tacoma, and visiting other villages with the dance group.

H97-65-17 Dora Hugo talks about her education, the teachers who came to Tulugak Lake, the different games that they played, working in the school for fifteen years, the co-op store in Anaktuvuk Pass, the store that her husband had, John working for ARL, catching marmots for research, the time John was sick from brucellosis after eating caribou marrow, advice she has given to her children and grandchildren, the problem of alcohol, things she misses about the old days and how she would like to be remembered.
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