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The Commissioner calls the meeting to order, and informs the public of why the meeting is being held. It is being held in order for the Alaska Joint Federal Land Use Planning Commission to learn how Native people use the land in the past, present and future. They are also trying to understand what the D-2 lands should be used for, and understand the needs of the Native people and get their opinions. This document was transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior and presented to Congress in order for them to make a decision about the D-2 Land.

John Hugo reflects on how he and his people have used the land in the past, and time spent at the Noatak River. The people did not have the necessities of a village, they only had what they needed. Sometimes they went to the coast to trade at the posts such as in the Barrow area. In 1942 they decided to come back to Anaktuvuk Pass to live with the people. They would like to see their land be protected from further intrusions.

Ruth Rulland talks about when game was scarce in Anaktuvuk Pass, and going to other places to find game and it was plentiful. She wants the land to be opened for their people so the young people can enjoy the land too.

Robert Paneak was born and raised in the country all his life. When school and missionaries started in 1961 or 1963, his family settled in Anaktuvuk Pass to start school when he was a child. He likes to hunt and trap and follow the caribou, too. In 1973 he started hunting for bear and wolf in other parts of that country. It looked like good hunting ground around there, the south of the Killik River. It was better hunting ground back than, in the Anaktuvuk Pass area. He wishes that the D-2 land is opened for the Native people to continue to hunt. It will be hard for the village if it is closed for hunting and gathering in the hard months. He traveled on the Killik River to look for game and on the Koyukuk River. He trapped all up and down those rivers.

Billy Morry was born in 1914 near the Canadian border. His parents came from the Killik River and he spent years near the border and also traveled to the coast and than his parents took the family to Anaktuvuk Pass. They hunted and gathered from the land just to take care of the family. They traveled all over the country. They did not spend a lot of time in one place especially in the summer because they followed the caribou and other game to eat and they did not have much building material to build a home so that is another reason they didn't stay in one place all year long.

Susie Paneak wanted to speak because of Anaktuvuk Pass' money situation. The only money they are bringing in for staple foods like flour and sugar is from making and selling masks. People are also traveling to different places to hunt. The people of Anaktuvuk Pass are interested in having the Killik River country protected for their hunting and trapping needs. She also mentions that the villagers aren't used to talking to strangers, especially white strangers. People started living in the Anaktuvuk Pass community around 1948.

Simon Paneak is a well known Eskimo liaison and interior arctic scholar born in 1900 in the Killik Valley of the Central Brooks Range. He talks about staying around the Nigu River, and Killik Rivers, the Colville River and the mobility of people. He talks about his people hunting and trapping around Chandler Lake, but he doesn't anymore. Chandler Lake has good fish quantities, especially in the summer.

Riley Sikvayugak is from Point Barrow but he married a woman from Anaktuvuk Pass and became a resident. They made masks for money in that time. He likes the hunting way of life and that it is important to him and his family. He states that subsistence was the main income back then. He hunts caribou on the Killik River and he doesn't want any restrictions from any of the agencies. There are only a few permanent jobs in Anaktuvuk Pass that are government jobs such a post master, a health aid that is employed by Tanana Chiefs Conference in Fairbanks, and a janitor at the school that's employed by the school district.

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