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Maranda Nelson

Maranda Nelson was born in 1951 in the village of Blackburn (also known as Holikachuk) on the Yukon River. She came to Seward at age three, when her mother came for tuberculosis treatment at the local sanitorium. After her mother's death in a car crash, Maranda was raised by her aunt, Lucy Broughton, who worked for many years at Seward Fisheries. Although they lived in Seward, Maranda grew up living a semi-subsistence lifestyle, going trapping, hunting, and berry picking with Lucy. Maranda is a ceramicist and served seventeen years on the Qutekcak Tribal Council, Seward's Native tribal organization.

Date of Birth:

Jun 27, 1951

Maranda Nelson appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Maranda Nelson	Maranda Nelson was interviewed on May 11, 2011 by Rachel Mason, Karen Brewster, and Shannon Kovac at the Qutekcak Tribal Office in Seward, Alaska. In this interview, Maranda talks about her childhood, the Native community in Seward, race relations, subsistence activities, changes in wildlife populations, and the 1964 Earthquake. She talks about trapping, berry picking, hunting, and skiing in the Exit Glacier area, the road to the glacier, and her thoughts on the establishment of Kenai Fjords National Park.	2010-05-17	Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park	May 11, 2011