TOPICS INDEX

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Abvitchiaq, Ella

Afuyaabvik Pass

accident - Saafiaq

accidents - on river

activities - drilling

activities - housework

adaptation - inland

adoption - Carrie

Ahvakana, Lloyd

Aishanna, Bailey

Akpik, Barry - age

Akpik, Florence

Akpik, Walter - family

Akpik, Walter - grandfather

Akpik, Walter - grandparents

Akpik, Walter - parents

Akpiksraq's family

Alaska Territorial Guard

allotments - owners of

allotment - Akpik, Greta

Amabuaq - relationship

Anaralak, Edward

animal populations - seasonal migration

animals - behavior

Añakpaluq, Hannah

archaeology - artifacts

archaeology - historical sites

archaeology - sites

Arctic Contractors

Arctic Slope Corporation

artifacts - sinkers

Atabana, Salomi

Atqasuk - original site

Atqasuk - people

Aumalik and Titaluk - mixed up

Aviullaavik - location

Barrow - hospital

Barrow - stores

Barrow - summers

Bay of Cape Halkett

BIA - Department of Education

Bible - related stories

black-out conditions

boating - seasonal

boats - loading

boats - portage

boats - purchase

boats - storage

boats - trading

boats - wintering

bones - knuckles

Brower - family

Brower, Arnold, Jr.

Brower, Arnold, Sr.

Brower, Bobby, Jr.

Brower, Charles

Brower, Charlie

Brower, Kenneth

Brower, Thomas, Jr.

Brower, Tom, Jr.

Bureau of Education

Bureau of Indian Affairs

business - family

business - management

cabin - Sakeagak, Abel

cache - oil drums

caches - caribou

Collinson Point

camp - Brower's

camp - Chipp 10

camp - grandfather

camp - Pausan's

camp - subsistence

camping - on ice

camping - Qagluuraq

camping - snowstorm

camping - Tasiqpak Lake

camps - Arnold Brower

camps - coastal

camps - DEW line

camps - fishing

camps - pitching

camps - temporary

camps - visible

campsite - Pausan

canoes - lining

canoes - maintenance

Captain Pederson

caribou - and snow depth

caribou - and wolves

caribou - antlers

caribou - artifacts

caribou - bones

caribou - butchering

caribou - corraling

caribou - drives

caribou - fawning

caribou - fawns

caribou - herd size

caribou - increase

caribou - inland

caribou - knowledge of

caribou - lack of

caribou - lake drives

caribou - location

caribou - migration

caribou - migration from Colville

caribou - migration patterns

caribou - migration routes

caribou - movement

caribou - numbers

caribou - offering self

caribou - proximity

caribou - remains

caribou - sharing

caribou - shortage

caribou - slaughter

caribou - snow trap

caribou - training

caribou - western herd

caribou - winter migration

Chamberlain, Henry

change - post-World War II

channels - old and new

characteristic - dry

characteristic - sandstone

characteristics - physical

children - raising

children - sons

children - work

choices - education

choices - lifestyle

clothing - caribou

coal - Afutigruaq

coal - for village

coal - Itqiuraq

coal - Tikibluk

coal - transporting

coal - transporting in winter

Coast and Geodetic Survey

Colville drainage

community house

companies - reindeer

composition - song

construction supplies - reuse

containers - oil

contests - athletic

contests - marking

correction - Point Barrow to Nuvuk

crafts - polar bear rugs

crafts - tourists

creation stories

D-7 Caterpillar Tractor

death - accidental

death - epidemics

death - starvation

deaths - disease

Demarcation Point

Department of Health

depth - measurement

discourse - style

disease - epidemics

disease - influenza

disease - measles

diseases - rheumatism

dog team - backpacks

dog team - care

dog team - mosquitoes

dog team - round up

dog teams - number

dog teams - use

dogs - fish for

dogs - for herding

dogs - starvation

dogs - tethering

ducks - nesting areas

dwelling - iitchalik

dwelling - structure

dwelling - type

dwellings - old

dwellings - ruins

dwellings - sod

education - English language

education - from elders

education - herding

education - hunting

education - land use

education - observation

education - school

education - self

education - sister

education - subsistence

education - summer camps

Edwardsen, Charlie

Edwardsen, Eddie

Edwardsen, Mary

Edwardsen, Tony

Elavgak, Bradford

Elavgak, Freida

employment - wage labor

English river names

environment - damage

epidemic - influenza

epidemic - measles

epidemic - nomadic

epidemics - influenza

epidemics - measles (1940)

Eqowa (Igaubiq)

Ericklook, Bessie

family - Barrow

family - births

family - Nayukok, Teddy

family - parents

family responsibilities

father - Edwardsen, Antone

feasts - "first catch"

feasts - Messenger Feast

features - manmade

firearms - shotgun

fish - afayuqaksraurat

fish - afmabuurat

fish - availability

fish - behavior

fish - break-up

fish - distribution

fish - dynamite

fish - grayling

fish - great volume

fish - lake trout

fish - migration

fish - movement

fish - preparation

fish - preservation

fish - quantity

fish - seasonal migration

fish - spawning

fish - subsistence

fish - whitefish

fishhook - bone

fishhook - metal

fishing - Akpik

fishing - Atqasuk

fishing - camps

fishing - Colville River

fishing - Edwardsen, Charlie

fishing - favorable conditions

fishing - grayling

fishing - historically

fishing - hooks

fishing - jigging

fishing - lakes

fishing - ling cod

fishing - location

fishing - netting

fishing - Qikiqtaqturuq Creek

fishing - Qiugaq

fishing - season

fishing - subsistence

fishing - Tasiqpak Lake

fishing - technique

fishing - traps

fishing - trout

fishing - white fish (aanaakjiq)

fishing - whitefish

fishing - winter

fishline - baleen

fishline - burbot

fishline - grayling

fishline - sinew

floods - Meade River

fluency - English

food - "Eskimo"

food - fermentation

food - preservation

food - puiññiq

food - purchased

food storage - ice cellars

fossils - mastodon

fox skins - low prices

fuel - seal oil

game - decreasing volume

game - falltime

games - jumping

games - markers

games - of skill

gathering places

gatherings - trade

geographical features

goods - ammunition

goods - blubber

goods - exchange

goods - store bought

Gordon, Tom "Mickey", Jr.

gravel - dredge

greeting - visitors

Greist, Dr. Henry

ground squirrel

GSI - survey crews

guiding - deception

guiding - miners

Half Moon Three Ranch

handle - allasaun

heat - sources of

herd - too numerous

herders - number

herding - Barrow

herding - companies

herding - interfering with whaling

herding - reindeer

herding - summer

herding - wages

herds - Barrow county

herds - grazing areas

herds - Halkett

herds - keeping separate

herds - Numbers 1-3

herds - Tommy Brower's

herds - Wainwright

herds - Wainwright county

hides - caribou

history - Chipp-Ikpikpak

holidays - Christmas

holidays - Fourth of July

holidays - Thanksgiving

Hopson, Alfred - herd 4

Hopson, Alfred Jr.

Hopson, Alfred Sr.

Hopson, Harriet

hospital - Barrow

house - Aahaaliq

house - Annaqtuuq

house - Atqasuk

house - Kuutchiuraq

house - Matulik

house - Nashaknik, Henry

house - Panikpak

house - Patkotak

house construction

houses - ancient

houses - construction

houses - foundations

houses - frames

houses - remains

houses - sod (ivrulik)

Howard, William Lt.

Hudson Bay Company - exploitation

hunting - 30-30 gun

hunting - areas

hunting - bearded seal

hunting - caribou

hunting - caribou drives

hunting - caribou pits

hunting - Colville River

hunting - ducks

hunting - foxes

hunting - geese

hunting - grizzly bear

hunting - late summer

hunting - learning

hunting - locations

hunting - nomadic

hunting - on foot

hunting - on Ikpikpak River

hunting - partnerships

hunting - patterns

hunting - polar bear

hunting - ptarmigan

hunting - resources

hunting - seasonal

hunting - skill

hunting - snares

hunting - snowmachine

hunting - springtime

hunting - summer

hunting - techniques

hunting - ugruk

hunting - walrus

hunting - weapons

hunting - whales

hunting - wolves

ice - conditions

ice - drinking water

ice - knowledge

ice - pressure ridges

ice fishing - fall

ice fishing - process

ice fishing - season

ice scoop - baleen

identification markings

identity - racial

Ikpikpagruaq Kayyaaq

Ikpikpak River (big cliff river)

Ilagaññiq brothers

inland - summer

Iñupiaq - language

Iñupiaq - Selawik dialect

Iñupiaq river names

iñuqulligauraq

Ixaavaq - father

Ixavgufuluak (lit. little Luke)

Irailaq (lit. without an eye)

Isuqtuq - camping

Itqixiq - moving to

Itqixiq - use of

Kafibaksraq - residence

Kaleak, Leo (Qaliaq)

Kayxupuk, Jimmy

Keogak, Michael

Kingeeveok - mother

Kiñiaviaq, Hilda

kinship - terms of address

Knifeblade Ridge

knowledge - land

knowledge - willingness to share

Kuguyuk, Kenton

lake - drainage

lake - drying up

lakes - fishing

lakes - hunting

lakes - location

lakes - water level

land - attracting birds

land - defense of

land - knowledge of

land - teaching about

land use - past

land use - present

landmarks - between herds

landmarks - naming

Leavitt, Alfred

Leavitt, Captain

Leavitt, Daniel

Leavitt, George

Leavitt, George T.

Leavitt, George T. - father

Leavitt, Luther

Leavitt, William

Liebes Trading Post

lifestyle - nomadic

lifestyle - old ways

Little Supreme Bluffs

Liverpool, England

lure - feathers

lure - kaviksauraq

Maasak, Mae - mother

mail run - Kotzebue

mammoth - remains

marriage - arrangements

marriage - intermarriage

marriage - stopped herding

married - 10-23-1942

Marston, Marvin "Maktak"

mastodon - remains

Mayuabiaq River

Meade River - song

Meade River vs. Ikpikpak River

Meathook Island

medical care - Barrow

migration - change

migration - directional

migration - seasonal

migration - south

military - Navy

miners - prospectors (maiñat)

mines - Meade River

mining - prospecting

mining - resources

mining - techniques

monsters - killing of

monsters - large fish

monsters - large shrew

Morgan, Stanley

mother - adoptive

mother - biological

mother - Indian

mother - Iñuraq, Dora

motion song (sayuun)

move - 1977-1978

movement - inland

movement - east

musk ox - bones

musk ox - remains

Nageak, Marchie

Nageak, Vincent

naming - meaning

naming - places

Namniq - residence

Nanmak - journey

Nashaknik family

Nashaknik, Evelyn (Nafyak)

Nashaknik, Henry

Nashaknik, Henry - family

Natchibuna - wife

National Park Service - mapping

natural resources - coal

natural resources - exploration

Naullaq (Naullani)

Naval regulations

navigation - lakes

navigation - waterways

Navy - destroyed lake

Navy - World War II

North Slope Borough

Nufasuk - grandmother

Nuisatchiuraq (lit. out first)

Nuisubnaak (lit. two lookout points)

Nungasak - family

Nungasak, Ben - family

Nungasak, Olive

Nusunginya, Faye

Nusunginya, Faye - mother

Nusunginya, Ned

Nusunginya, Ned - father

observation - caribou

observation - three years

occupation - seasonal

oil exploration - impact

ownership - time

P.S. & D. (Puget Sound and Drake)

packing - techniques

paddles vs. oars

Paisaq - portage

Panigeo, Nellie

parents - Nunamiut

partnership - trade

Pasigruaq (lake)

Patiktitaq - characteristic

Patiktitaq Creek

Patkotak, Steve

payment - bullets

Pederson, Captain C.T.

people - Barrow

people - Noatak

people - Wainwright

permits - mounted police

personal belongings

Pisiksabiabvik Creek

placename - Saafiaq

placenames - rivers

Point Holiyokon

pokes - sealskin

pollution - Chipp River

pollution - oil

population - 1930s

population - coastal

population - east

population - high

portage - Nunamiut

pre-World War II

ptarmigan - behavior

Qagluuraq - song

Qaksraubabvik River

Qallu - grandfather

qargi - musk oxen

Qarlugiksauraq River

Qatiqsiñaaq - travel with dogs

Qayyaq - grandmother

Qimmich Nallugaat

Qisiixaq, Titus

Qiugaq, Michael

Quaqqat ("foothills")

Quksaurrauraq River

radio transmissions

range conditions

reactions - parental

regrets - English

regrets - school

reindeer - prices

reindeer - acquisition

reindeer - Barrow

reindeer - Barrow herd

reindeer - Brower herd

reindeer - Brower herd #4

reindeer - Brower's herd

reindeer - bulls

reindeer - butchering

reindeer - care

reindeer - company

reindeer - Company herd

reindeer - cooperative program

reindeer - corralling

reindeer - corralling time

reindeer - corrals

reindeer - diminishing herds

reindeer - disappearance

reindeer - draft

reindeer - draft animals

reindeer - fawning

reindeer - fawns

reindeer - grazing

reindeer - grazing areas

reindeer - Halkett herd

reindeer - herd management

reindeer - herd size

reindeer - herders

reindeer - herding

reindeer - herds

reindeer - Herds #1-5

reindeer - intermingling

reindeer - introduction

reindeer - lifespan

reindeer - loss of herd

reindeer - marking

reindeer - milking

reindeer - Number 4 herd

reindeer - ownership

reindeer - payment

reindeer - pelts

reindeer - purchase

reindeer - ranges

reindeer - round up

reindeer - Tegoseak herd

reindeer - time spent herding

reindeer - training

reindeer - Wainwright

reindeer herd - headquarters

Reindeer Service

relations - Iñupiat and Caucasian

repairs - boots

residence - Atqasuk

residence - Barrow

residence - California

residence - falltime

residence - Iñupiaq

residence - lakeside

residence - movement

residence - Namniq

residence - patterns

residence - permanence

residence - permanent

residence - seasonal

residence - winter

resident - dwarf

resources - blubber

resources - coal

resources - damage

resources - gas

resources - knowing about

resources - management

resources - natural gas

resources - oil

resources - seal oil

resources - subsistence

resources - way of knowing

Rexford, Herman

river - conditions

river - crossing

river - currents

river - knowledge of

river - terrain

river - water levels

river - new channels

rock - characteristics

Sabvailaq River

sails - maneuvering

sails - manufacture

sails - seasonal use

Sakeagak, Gerald

Sakeagak, Joshua

Savviubvik River

Schneider, William

school - attendance

school - closing of

school - survival

school - Tikibluk

seasonal movement

seasonal residence - Payugvik

seasonal residence - winter

seasonal rounds

seismic testing

settlement - Cape Halkett

settlement - Qalvik

settlement - winter

shelters - snow

Shooting Station

Sielak, Marjorie

Sielak, Ruth - aunt

Sikvayugak, Joseph

Simmonds, Martha

Simmonds, Samuel

Siñiktabnailaq

site - (EB2) settlement

site - characteristics

site - historic

site - location

site - navigational

site - prehistoric

site - resources

site - selecting

sites - artifacts

sites - erosion

sites - identification

sites - respect

sites - settlement

snowmachines - and game

song - Nuisubnaak

song - Tikibluk

soup - mushrooms

store - Brower's

stories - changes in

story - brothers

story - brown bear

stoves - Coleman

stream - Anaulibiaq

stream crossings

streams - small

structures - caches

structures - ceremonial

structures - ceremonial houses

structures - ice cellars

structures - remains

structures - skylights

structures - snow

structures - snowhouses

structures - sod

subsistence - changes in pattern

subsistence - fall

subsistence - hunting

subsistence - lifestyle

subsistence - priorities

subsistence - seasonal rounds

subsistence - travel for

subsistence areas

subsistence resources - availability

supplies - food

supplies - transportation

supply ships - San Francisco

Taaqpak - herd 2

Taaqpak - herder and whaler

Tapqaaluk Island

Tavvialuqablibmik

tent - camouflage

tents - materials

Tigvabiaq Island

Tittaaliq Ridge

Tittaaliq River

Toovak, Timothy

towing - shoreline

town - moving to

town - visits to

trade - 1913 - 1915

trade - Brower's store

trade - Colville River

trade - commodities

trade - decisions

trade - early summer

trade - Herschel Islands

trade - intergroup

trade - Native store

trade - off-shore allotments

trade - partners

trade - partnerships

trade - Russian

trade - seasonality

trade - stopping of

trade - Tabiubmiut

trade - territory

trading - permits

trading post - 1941

trading post - Barrow

trading post - Barter

trading post - Barter Island

trading post - Beechey Point

trading post - Brownlow Point

trading post - Cape Halkett

trading post - Demarcation Point

trading post - Eskimo Island

trading post - Point Hope

trading post - Prudhoe

trading post - Uuliktuq point

trading post - Wainwright

trails - winter

transformation - to wolf

trap - construction

trappers - Wainwright

trapping - bait

trapping - Browers

trapping - camp

trapping - caribou

trapping - Itqiuraq

trapping - lack of dogs

trapping - on Meade River

trapping - Prudhoe

trapping - regulations

trapping - squirrels

trapping - territories

trapping - winter

trapping - wolverines

trapping - wolves

travel - against current

travel - airplane

travel - Akpik family

travel - backpacking

travel - Barter path

travel - cat trains

travel - childhood

travel - coastal

travel - course of

travel - destination

travel - distance

travel - dog sled

travel - dog team

travel - downriver

travel - duration

travel - eastward

travel - education

travel - elderly people

travel - experience

travel - father

travel - fishing

travel - floatplane

travel - foothills

travel - for hunting

travel - grandparents

travel - groups

travel - hazards

travel - herding

travel - Herschel Island

travel - Ikusik

travel - Ikusik family

travel - inland

travel - Itqiuraq

travel - kayaks

travel - knowledge

travel - Kuuligruaq

travel - last trip

travel - Meade River

travel - miners

travel - outboards

travel - packing

travel - paddling

travel - parents

travel - Pisiksabiabvik

travel - planes

travel - Point Hope to Barrow

travel - portages

travel - portaging canoes

travel - Qagluuraq to Atqasuk

travel - reindeer

travel - rest stop

travel - Schneider, Bill

travel - season

travel - seasonal

travel - shallow water

travel - skin boat

travel - snowmachine

travel - snowshoes

travel - spring

travel - stories

travel - subsistence

travel - summer

travel - supplies

travel - Takoluk

travel - Tikibluk

travel - to camps

travel - towing

travel - tracking

travel - upriver

travel - Wainwright

travel - walking

travel - water routes

travel - weather

travel - whaling boats

travel - winter

travel - with sails

travel - without sails

travel conditions

travel routes - prehistoric

trip - length of

Tunik, Clayborne

Tuuraq - grandfather

Tuvalurraq - Tupaabruk

Ubvik - landmark

ugruk - characteristics of

Umifluk (Salomi's father)

Upper Meade River

Uqpiksuum Kafia

Utukok River people

Valley of the Willows

war - Eskimo-Indian

water - current

water - running

water - sources

weapon - bow and arrow

weapon - manufacture

weather - conditions

weather - storms

whale - behavior

whale - populations

whaling - Barrow

whaling - sails

whaling - sharing

Wien's dance hall

wind - knowledge

wolves - driving reindeer

wolves - eating reindeer

wolves - hunting reindeer vs. caribou

wolves - migration patterns

wolves - puppies

wolves - suckling

wolves - watching for

women - kidnapping

work - Anaktuvuk Pass

work - Arctic Contractors

work - Arctic Research

work - carpentry

work - construction

work - Fairbanks

work - for herders

work - hospital

work - housekeeping

work - mechanic

work - North Slope Borough

work - Nusunginya, Ned

work - radiator repair

work - seasonal

work - Tikibluk

work - tractor driving

work - Wien Airlines

working conditions