Elenore McMullen talks with Mike Galginaitis about ...

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1) Life and history of Port Graham.

Port Graham\ Kenai Fjords National Park\ Nanwalek\ Napoleon, Harold -- book\ moving\ Seward\ Kachemak Bay\ seasonal travel\ English Bay\ Alexandrovsk\ coal mine|

2) Employment issues.

migration\ families traveling\ employment\ settling down|

3) Family differences.

McMullen family\ McMullen, Elenore -- father\ McMullen, Elenore -- mother\ moving\ gardens\ fishing\ Nuka\ McMullen, Elenore -- grandmother\ McMullen, Elenore -- grandfather\ bedrolls\ grooming\ housing|

4) Family life.

meals -- shared\ home -- grandparents\ meals -- large\ pattern of moving\ Kvasnikoff, Simeon\ McMullen, Elenore -- aunt\ McMullen, Elenore -- uncle\ Dog Fish Bay\ Port Lock|

5) Holidays and traveling.

Russian Christmas\ hiking\ Dogfish Bay\ visiting\ supplies -- restocking\ seasonal travel\ travel -- tradition\ wife disabled -- still travel|

6) Food supplies.

simple diet\ food\ containers -- metal\ containers -- personal|

7) Steam bath practices.

medical reasons\ relaxation\ cleanliness\ location\ steam bath -- rocks\ Chenega\ spirit camp|

8) Rebuilding tradition.

spirit camp\ wedding ceremony\ unplanned pregnancy\ stories and legends\ menstrual cycle\ elders telling parents how to instruct children|

9) Story power of female body.

hunting\ barabra\ permanent home\ special shelter\ instruction -- young woman\ taboos|

10) Story power of female body (continued).

Nuka Island\ hunting\ animal threatening community\ menstrual secretion -- power\ animal death|

11) Young women's traditions.

seclusion\ arranged marriage\ restrictions -- work\ restictions -- eating\ traditions -- instruction in|

12) Marriage.

arranged marriage\ adjustments|

13) Pregnancy and child rearing.

education\ partnership\ extended family\ children -- rearing |

14) Elders instructing young people.

steam bath\ McMullen, Elenore -- grandmother\ McMullen, Elenore -- uncle\ family responsibility\ unplanned pregnancy\ instruction|

15) Elders instructing young people (continued).

family responsibility\ brother responsible for sibling's family|

16) Importance of gender.

birth -- female\ birth -- male\ male -- provider\ Port Graham\ cultural pattern|

17) Being council chief.

competitive\ council chief\ first female\ elders disagree\ Meganack, Walter -- former village chief\ road construction\ Windy Bay\ Nanwalek\ Port Graham|

18) Alcohol and sobriety.

excessive drinking\ family dysfunction\ male role models\ sobriety\ male providers\ clothing\ furs|

19) Providing for family and tradition.

fur\ recognition\ tradition\ pride in craft|

20) Traditional activities.

hunting\ trapping\ bears\ hunting bear video\ kayaking\ wood carving\ Macavay, Larry\ Kodiak\ kayak instruction|

21) Traditional activities and grandmother.

Macavay, Larry\ kayak -- building\ sea lion\ Ciqluq\ barabra\ food -- storage\ McMullen, Elenore -- grandmother\ memories\ healer\ medicines|

22) Delivering babies.

midwivery\ pre-natal care\ home delivery\ delivery instructions|

23) Delivering babies (continued).

Homer\ delivery techniques\ McMullen, Elenore -- mother\ healer\ McMullen, Elenore -- grandmother\ death|

24) Grandmother's death.

house -- preparations\ set table\ visitations\ McMullen, Elenore -- grandmother\ death|

25) Grandmother's death (continued).

preparation\ asking forgiveness\ McMullen, Elenore -- uncle|

26) Death preparations.

preparation -- body\ clothing\ roles\ family members' help|

27) Death preparations (continued).

handling of body\ respect\ tradition|

28) Death preparations (continued).

health aides\ terminal illness\ death in village|

29) Return to village.

death\ village -- removed from\ village -- return to\ ceremony|

30) Return to village (continued).

village -- returning people to\ community solidarity\ fetal alcohol syndrome\ Anchorage\ education\ security\ Christmas|

31) Return to village (continued).

village -- children leave \ far away members\ community network|

32) One girl's return.

village -- returned to\ met relatives\ recovered from abuse\ community connection|

33) Community issues.

service\ community network\ State agencies\ parental rights|

34) Return to village.

illness\ death\ children removed\ community welcomes them back|

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