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# Tape H80-04
Abbie Joseph speaks in Koyukon about...

1) ...how she hurt her hand by getting it caught in a washing machine wringer.
washing machines\ injuries - hand\ Moses, Don\ medical treatment|

2) ...where she and her parents lived when she was a child.
McKinley\ travel - seasonal\ Toyontlaaga\ travel - dog teams|

3) ...traveling with the dogs through an area of an old forest fire.
travel - dog teams\ portages\ forest fires - effects\ trees - spruce\ trees - birch\ berries - kinnikinnick (bear)\ berries - salmon|

4) ...visiting a house in Nenana.
travel - seasonal\ trails\ fish camps\ fishing - hooks\ children\ Nenana\ Old Mission\ floods\ tents\ smokehouses\ Tanana|

5) ...how her son drowned in an accident.
McKinley\ Tanana\ mission - Tanana\ Fairbanks\ Bentley,.Archdeacon\ deaths - accidental\ Cos Jacket\ Manley Hot Springs\ Neanteeleyaden\ Fort Yukon\ Albert, Jimmy\ travel - rafts\ fishwheels - rafts\ dogs|

6) ...more on her son's drowning.
dog teams\ Tanana\ medical treatment\ Starr, Beline\ Starr, John\ Joseph, Stanley|

7) ...an illness she experienced and how it was treated.
blackfish\ disease\ medical treatment|

Abbie Joseph talks with Diane Gudgel-Holmes and Eliza Jones about...

1) ...when her mother was sick.
Minchumina\ illness - mother\ cooking - uncle\ dishes - birchbark\ knives - wooden\ canvas - tent\ medical treatment\ medicine people|

2) ...how her father traveled to get back home when her mother got sick.
dogs\ dolls\ spirits\ illness - mother\ Hutnaadle\ camps|

3) ...more about her father's trip.
relatives\ Kuskokwim\ Minchumina\ names\ John, Roosevelt\ spirits\ Hutnaadle\ Birch Creek\ travel\ caches|

4) ...her father's family.
Evan, John\ Cos Jacket\ Minchumina\ Evan, Andrew\ Cos Jacket\ Minchumina\ relatives\ children - raising|

5) ...her father's father.
Evan, John\ necklace - dentalia|

6) ...Chief Evan and his wives.
Evan, Chief\ relatives\ wives - number|

7) ...the accidental death of her husband.
Evan, John\ deaths - accidental\ deaths - shooting\ Nenana\ Gilbert|

8) ...place names.
place names\ Chalchejaa\ Nolneelindinh\ Yukon\ Tanana\ Nenana\ Fairbanks\ Telida\ rivers\ Kuskokwim\ Denali Range\ Sasutnah\ Foracre\ Cha'ot\ Anchorage|

9) ...how they took care of her mother when she got hurt.
illness - mother\ relatives\ Birch Creek|

10) ...where her father was from and how they used plants to help her mother when she was sick.
father\ Tozeelnah\ ministers\ Mission Hill\ boats - skin\ White people\ medicine - traditional\ medicine - plants\ thorn bush\ birch juice\ berries|

11) ...other things they did to help heal her mother.
marrow\ spirits\ Hutnaadle\ camp - traveling\ Birch Creek|

12) ...where she would like to be buried.
Telida\ burial places\ Cos Jacket\ Bonetlagegheenee|

13) ...doing the chores her mother couldn't do while she was sick.
illness - mother\ sewing\ medical treatment\ fish - cutting\ illness - mother\ medical treatment\ Auntie Abedudia|

14) ...more chores and food.
Minchumina\ water - sources\ water - well\ food - caribou\ children - raising|

15) ...what her mother did when Abbie became a woman.
puberty rites\ seclusion houses\ food taboos|

16) ...how she learned to smoke and tan skins.
tanning skins\ smokehouses\ tanning - caribou\ tanning - moose\ tanning - techniques\ tanning - tools\ sewing - skins\ sewing - stitches\ smoking - skins|

17) ...preparing for a potlatch.
potlatches - memorial\ sewing - for potlatches\ clothing - storebought\ skins - for certain items\ songs - potlatch|

18) ...a memorial potlatch at Hutnaleedinh.
potlatch - Hutnaleedinh\ puberty rites\ food taboos\ Cos Jacket\ potlatch - Cos Jacket\ soup|

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