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Nicole Hanshaw

Nichole Hanshaw

Born and raised in Selawik, Alaska, Nichole Hanshaw works as a Refuge Information Technician for the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge. She is based at their field office in Selawik, where she works as a liaison with the local community regarding susbsistence harvesting, wildlife observations, hunting regulations, school programs, and oversees the annual science-culture camps that the refuge sponsors. She participated in some of the oral history interviews and completed some of the transcripts for the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge Project Jukebox.
Nicole Hanshaw appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

As Transcriber

Interview Title Archive #: Oral History Project Abstract Transcriber
May Walton 2018-04-02 Land Use and Environmental Change, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge

May Walton was interviewed on February 8, 2018 by Karen Brewster and Susan Georgette at May's home in Selawik, Alaska. In this interview, May talks about living a traditional subsistence lifestyle, spending time at the upriver community of Niliq, hunting and trapping muskrat, processing and selling muskrat furs, the fur trade, and traveling down river on a log raft. She also discusses fishing, eating traditional Native foods, changes in wildlife populations like caribou, ptarmigan hunting, early forms of money, and other families living up the Selawik and Kuugruaq Rivers.

 Nichole Hanshaw

As a Person Present at Interview

Interview Title Archive #: Oral History Project Abstract People Present
Pauline Ramoth 2018-04-04 Land Use and Environmental Change, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge

Pauline Ramoth was interviewed on February 9, 2018 by Karen Brewster and Susan Georgette at Pauline's home in Selawik, Alaska. Nichole Hanshaw sat in and listened to the interview. In this interview, Pauline talks about growing up in Selawik when times were tough, only going to school until the sixth grade, and learning English, living a subsistence lifestyle of moving to seasonal camps for hunting, trapping and fishing, traveling on the river on a log raft, and stopping at Niliq and visiting the Rotman family who lived there. She also talks about muskrat hunting, preparing and trading the skins, eating traditional Native foods, use of plants, spring celebration and games they played.

 Nichole Hanshaw
Grant Ballot 2018-04-03 Land Use and Environmental Change, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge

Grant Uiugaaguqruak Ballot was interviewed on February 8, 2018 by Susan Georgette and Karen Brewster in the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge's office in the IRA Traditional Council's building in Selawik, Alaska. Nichole Hanshaw sat in and listened to the interview. In this interview, Grant talks about growing up following a traditional nomadic subsistence lifestyle, going to mission school, trapping, fishing and hunting. In particular, Grant talks a lot about muskrat hunting, preparation of the skins, and the fur trade. He also talks about other people and families that lived in camps and settlements along the Selawik and Tagraġvik Rivers, and changes that have led to the loss of cultural traditions and the importance of passing these along to the younger generations.

 Nichole Hanshaw