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Digital Branch of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program

Kukaklek Lake Map

Description: 

Mary Ann Olympic or Dallia Andrew talk with William Schneider about places around Kukaklek Lake that they or their families have used. They provide the Yup'ik names for the places.

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Site #1: Winter reindeer herding camp

Site #2: Reindeer Lake


Site #3: Big Pike Lake


Site #4: Place where leave boat over the winter


Site #5: Aqsovik (sp?), Lookout Hill, a little mountain where used to watch for and hunt caribou


Site #6: Igiugig, where go pike fishing


Site #7: Lake


Site #8: Nunuuqtak (sp?), a long creek that goes high up into the mountains, where they would stop and rest when traveling


Site #9: Seagull Island, where would hunt seagull eggs


Site #10: Island that could walk out to in springtime


Site #11: More about the island that could walk out to in the springtime


Site #12: Fish camp


Site #13: Stone Mountain


Site #14: A cove


Site #15: Narrow spot


Site #16: Aaguluaq (sp?)


Site #17: Iggialak (sp?)


Site #18: Battle Lake


Site #19: Canoe up to this spot on Battle Lake


Site #20: Big Point/Long Point


Site #21: Atuusuraq (sp?)


Site #22: Little Deep Creek


Site #23: Big Point/Long Point


Site #24: Base of mountain


Site #25: Bear Island


Site #26: Three lakes close together


Site #27: Hunting for brown bear over the pass


Site #28: Bear hunting area during starvation time


Site #29: Lake where shot a bear located in hunting grounds for caribou


Site #30: Camp where Dallia and Mike Andrew and their family used to stay in the 1950s


 

 

 

 

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