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Rita Koyukuk

Rita Koyukuk

Rita Koyukuk is a Koyukon Athabascan elder from Hughes, Alaska. She is the daughter of Susie Williams from Hughes. Alaska. She grew up living a traditional subsistence lifestyle along the Koyukuk River moving from camp to camp following the seasons and the availability of fish and game. She is known for her talents as a skin and fur sewer.
Rita Koyukuk appears in the following new Jukebox projects:
Interview Title Abstract Archive #: Oral History Project Date of Interview
Rita Koyukuk

We met with Rita Koyukuk, Susie Williams' daughter, in Hughes, Alaska on February 18, 2003. She talks about a picture her daughter, Marilyn Evans, gave her for mother's day of Susie and Rita during the spring carnival in Hughes in the early 80's. She talks about the fancy parkas they were wearing, the spring carnival, and traveling to the carnival by dog team.

 2002-27-08 Gates of the Arctic National Park Feb 18, 2003