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Humphrey Ambrose

Humphrey Ambrose

Humphrey Ambrose was interviewed on April 2, 1998 by Mike Spindler in Nulato, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series on KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. In this interview, Humphrey talks about his personal background and making a living as a trapper and woodsman. He specifically mentions trapping marten and wolverine, and also talks about the history of the Nulato Massacre.

This interview was edited and produced by Clinton Brown. Photograph of Humphrey Ambrose courtesy of Ladean Ambrose.

Digital Asset Information

Archive #: Oral History 2004-01-20

Project: Raven's Story
Date of Interview: Apr 2, 1998
Narrator(s): Humphrey Ambrose
Interviewer(s): Mike Spindler

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Funding Partners:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Themes

Alaska Natives, Cutting Wood, Death, History, Income, Marten, Massacre, Race Relations, Storytelling, Subsistence, Trapping, Wolverine, Wood

Galena Alaska, Nulato Alaska, Yukon River

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Sections

1) Biography (1:22)

2) Nulato Massacre (6:22)

3) Trapping Marten (3:38)

4) Trapping Wolverine (4:33)

5) Woodsman (3:56)

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