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Pollack Simon, Sr.

Pollack Simon, Sr. was born in 1939 to Sarah and Lee Simon in Allakaket, Alaska. His father lived near Allakaket by the Koyukuk River just like his father before him, and his mother was from Allakaket. In 1942, his family moved to Hughes where he was raised. Pollack has lived a subsistence lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping his whole life and has had a long career as a dog musher. He has also worked as a heavy equipment operator and has been a crew boss on local firefighting crews for many years. He eventually moved back to Allakaket where he raised a family with his wife, Julia. Pollack shares his local knowledge by teaching about his cultural traditions and practices, including traditional trapping techniques, and by serving on the Western Interior Alaska Subsistence Regional Advisory Council.

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Raven's Story

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Pollack Simon, Sr.	Pollack Simon, Sr. was interviewed in May, 2004 by Eric Mack in Allakaket, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series on KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. In this interview, Pollack talks about living a traditional subsistence lifestyle based on hunting, trapping and fishing. He discusses learning to live off the land from his grandfather, trapping marten, and hunting moose and wolves. He also talks about his career as a dog musher, changes in dog mushing, trapping and fishing, how life has changed so that living off the land is now more difficult, working as a wildlands firefighter, and the role of politics in wolf management. The interview was edited and produced by Clinton Brown.	2004-01-25	Raven's Story	May 1, 2004

Interview Title

Abstract

Archive #: Oral History

Project

Date of Interview

Pollack Simon, Sr.

Pollack Simon, Sr. was interviewed in May, 2004 by Eric Mack in Allakaket, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series on KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. In this interview, Pollack talks about living a traditional subsistence lifestyle based on hunting, trapping and fishing. He discusses learning to live off the land from his grandfather, trapping marten, and hunting moose and wolves. He also talks about his career as a dog musher, changes in dog mushing, trapping and fishing, how life has changed so that living off the land is now more difficult, working as a wildlands firefighter, and the role of politics in wolf management.

The interview was edited and produced by Clinton Brown.

2004-01-25

Raven's Story

May 1, 2004