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Rachel Craig

Rachel Craig was born in 1930 in Kotzebue, Alaska. She grew up speaking her native Iñupiaq language and living a traditional lifestyle, where they relied upon hunting seals and caribou, fishing, and berry picking for their food and used dogteams to travel between town and seasonal camps. She was well known as an Iñupiaq language linguist and educator who documented, preserved, and passed on knowledge about Iñupiaq history and language in the Kotzebue region. She was director of the Material Development Center for the Northwest Arctic School District where she developed school curriculum incorporating Iñupiat language and traditions, she helped organize the first Elders' Conference in Kotzebue, and later served on the Kotzebue Elders Council. Rachel facilitated and participated in the Communities of Memory public storytelling event held on February 29 to March 2, 1996 in Kotzebue, Alaska where local residents spoke about their memories of and experiences related to the military. Rachel Craig passed away in 2003.

Date of Birth:

Dec 6, 1930

Date of Death:

Oct 16, 2003

Rachel Craig appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

Kotzebue Communities of Memory

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Rachel Craig	Rachel Craig of Kotzebue, Alaska speaks on March 1, 1996 during the Communities of Memory public storytelling event held at the NANA Museum in Kotzebue, Alaska from February 29 to March 2, 1996. She talks about what life was like when she was growing up and during the years of World War II. She also talks about working at the hospital in Kotzeube when she was a teenager, and what it was like when the men returned from the military.	2015-25-03_PT.1	Kotzebue Communities of Memory	Mar 1, 1996

As Translator

Interview Title	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Abstract	Translator
Helen Wells	2015-25-01_PT. 2 & 2015-25-02_PT.1	Kotzebue Communities of Memory	Helen Wells of Kotzebue, Alaska speaks on February 29, 1996 during the Communities of Memory public storytelling event held at the NANA Museum in Kotzebue, Alaska from February 29 to March 2, 1996. She talks about members of the Alaska Territorial Guard training in the villages of Noorvik and Selawik during World War II and what it was like to have blackouts. Helen speaks in Iñupiaq, with Rachel Craig and Ruthie Sampson translating the stories into English.	Ruthie (Ramoth) Sampson, Rachel Craig