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Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 6
Walter Akpik, Sr. (Utik) was interviewed on May 20, 1983 by Bill Schneider, Wendy Arundale and Kathy Itta Demientieff (now Ahgeak) at the site of Anauliġiaq on the Meade River near Atqasuk, Alaska for the Chipp-Ikpikpuk and Meade Rivers Oral History Project. Walter mostly spoke in Iñupiaq and Kathy was the Iñupiaq language translator during the interview. The group traveled by snowmachine to Anauliġiaq so that Walter could be at the place while discussing its history and uses. In this interview, Walter talks about the history of Anauliġiaq, the houses and people who lived there, and how people have used the area for hunting, fishing and trapping. (IHLC Tape #00080)
See also:
Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 1, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 2, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 3, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 4, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 5, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 7, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 8, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 9, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 10, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 11, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 12, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 13, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 14, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 15, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 16, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 17, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 18, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 19, Part 1, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 19, Part 2
Digital Asset Information
Archive #: Oral History 87-103-06
Project: Chipp-Ikpikpuk and Meade Rivers Oral History Project
Date of Interview: May 20, 1983
Narrator(s): Walter Akpik, Sr.
Interviewer(s): Bill Schneider, Wendy Arundale, Katherine Itta Ahgeak
Translator:
Location of Interview:
Funding Partners:
North Slope Borough, Iñupiat History, Language and Culture Commission
Parts:
Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 1, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 2, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 3, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 4, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 5, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 7, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 8, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 9, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 10, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 11, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 12, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 13, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 14, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 15, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 16, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 17, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 18, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 19, Part 1, Walter Akpik, Sr., Interview 19, Part 2
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Themes
Alaska Natives, Cache, Camping, Caribou, Dog Care, Drum, Fish, Fishing, Food Preservation, Food Storage, Historic Sites, House, Hunting, Inupiat, Lake, Land Use, Life on the River, Native Land Ownership, Native Language, People, Place Names, River, River Place Names, Seasonal Movement, Sod Dwelling, Subsistence, Trapping, Travel
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Sections
1) The houses at Anauliġiaq and the people who lived there.
2) Other things he saw at Anauliġiaq.
3) Other activities in the area.
4) Resources harvested from the area.
5) The Isiquarraaġvik area and the ways people use it.
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Transcript
Section 1: Anauliġiaq\ Akpik, Walter\ houses\ drums\ houses - frames\ house - Nashaknik, Henry\ Nasagnik\ Nayak\ house - Patkotak\ Patkotak, Steve\ Nungasak, Ben\ Nuŋasuk\ Nungasak, Olive\ Wainwright\ Iruaqluq\ Sigvaluk\ Nanauk\ fish - quantity\ fish - sound\ fish - movement\ Inuġruaq\ Qivrauna\ Leavitt, Alfred\ Barrow\ travel\ Kuvana|
Section 2: drums\ personal belongings\ racks - drying|
Section 3: camping\ lake|
Section 4: fishing\ trapping\ hunting\ fish\ caribou\ ground squirrels\ ptarmigan\ traps - metal\ whitefish\ netting\ fish - preparation\ cache - ice\ storage - food\ dogs - food\ sleds - use\ fish - distribution\ Barrow\ Barter Island\ Wainwright|
Section 5: allotments\ Akpik, Walter\ fishing - ling cod\ fishing - seasonal\ land use - past\ land use - present\ Barrow\ hunting - caribou\ Titaluk\ fishing - grayling\ Atqasuk|