ORAL HISTORY 99-07-03 SIDE A. Justus Mekiana talks about traveling from Barter Island to the Colville River in 1933, meeting his uncles, Wilbur Itchoak and Daniel Kenton, the number of people living between Barter Island and the mouth of the Colville River in the 1930s, living in the upper Colville River area, his uncle working for Jack Smith, spending the winter at Kogoskruk, Old Man Morry's family, the Paneak family and the Kakinya family coming from Barter Island in 1934, some of the families moving in to the Killik River area, Old Man Morry living in the Killik River area when he was a young boy, a time of starvation and people moving to Barter Island, subsistence activities in the spring, his father, Homer Mekiana, building a sod house at Siksikpuk, Old Man Morry, Simon Paneak, following the caribou after Christmas, Chandler Lake, Okokmilaga River, traveling by dogsled on the Itkillik, Nuiqsut, hunting on the Pingok and other islands, traveling inland for the winter and out to the coast in the spring, not returning to the coast after 1939, and traveling to the trading post at Beechey Point in the spring.

ORAL HISTORY 99-07-03 SIDE B. Justus Mekiana talks about travel on the Killik in 1940, making a house in Ivisak, moving to find caribou, Okokmilaga, Stephen Chris, Frank Rulland, Billy Morry, John Morry, the early spring in 1940 that made travel difficult, Nelson Chris, hunters leaving base camp for a day or two, looking for calf skins in August, seasonal movement of the caribou, his first successful hunt in 1941, and their travel during 1941.