Greta Akpik
Suvluuraq
IHLC Tape Number: 00037
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Greta Akpik talks with Wendy Arundale about...
1) ...reindeer herding with Walter.
reindeer - herding\ Peard Bay\ repairs - boots\ mobility\ child-rearing\ hunting\ fishing|
2) ...quitting herding after 1938.
Akpik, Frankie\ Akpik, Florence\ Akpik, Henry\ hunting - fall\ Qikiqtaqturuq\ travel - boat\ Isuqtuq\ trapping|
3) ...returning to Barrow after trapping season.
Barrow\ whaling\ crew captains\ hunting - walrus\ Brower, Charles\ fuel - pitch\ Pitt Point\ supplies - transportation|
4) ...working for the Browers in Barrow.
Brower, Charles\ employment\ Barrow - hotel\ working conditions|
5) ...World War II in Northern Alaska.
World War II\ Qikiqtaqturuq\ black-out conditions\ wartime - fear\ dwellings - sod\ holidays - Christmas\ Barrow|
6) ...post World War II.
Barrow\ seasonal rounds\ caribou\ fish\ whaling\ education - schools\ mobility\ Uqpiksuu\ travel - boat|
7) ...wartime conditions around Barrow and the fear of a Japanese attack on the town.
Barrow\ Morgan, Stanley\ Japanese\ radio station\ pregnancy|
8) ...the job situation in Barrow during and immediately after World War II.
employment\ Navy\ National Guard\ Marston, Marvin "Maktak"\ Alaska Territorial Guard\ Akpik, Sam\ storage drums|
9) ...which of her children were born in the hospital.
childbirth\ Barrow - hospital\ Akpik, Henry\ Hopson, Lolly\ Itqiuraq\ medical staff\ Salomi|
10) ...her family's bout with influenza during the winter of 1939-1940.
influenza\ trapping\ Akpik, Walter\ food shortages\ dogs - starvation\ trapping - fox\ Kiiriq, Fannie\ sharing|
11) ...Walter's mother and Greta's brother helping after the birth of Lolly at Itqiuraq.
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Itqiuraq\ Tiki
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luk\ Payugvik\ travel - sled\ fishing\ Akpik, Henry\ Nayukok\ Tuvaaq|
12) ...the children getting old enough to start hunting and helping out.
Akpik, Frankie\ children - work\ firearms - shotgun\ hunting - ptarmigan\ Uqpiksuu\ travel - boat|
13) ...what she and Walter did and where they lived after the children were grown.
Barrow\ house construction\ lumber dump\ Navy\ Akpik, Joe\ Akpik, Mary|
14) ...use of the Meade River between their move to Barrow in 1946 and their move to Atqasuk in 1976 or 1977.
Meade River\ Uqpiksuu\ camp - summer\ travel - boat\ Tiki
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luk\ holidays - Fourth of July\ Akpik, Henry\ Akpik, Frankie\ Akpik, Mary|
15) ...more of her early memories of camps and the families with whom they visited.
Atuqtuaq\ Ikpikpak\ camp - Brower's\ Alaqtaq\ Ungarook, Carl\ Pausauraq\ Kukulan, Mark\ visiting\ kinship - terms of address\ Ivaaq\ Samarualak\ Aklaatchiaq\ Taalak\ Qa
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attauraq|
