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Members of Gunaxoo Kwaan

Members of the Gunaxoo Kwaan traveled from Yakutat to Dry Bay, Alaska on May 3 and 4, 1998 with National Park Service employees to search for lost village sites and record recollections of life at Dry Bay. Participants included: Sally Edwards, Bert Adams, Sr., Lorraine Adams, Fred White, Vince Johnson, and George Ramos. Wayne Howell and Mary Ann Porter were the National Park Service employees.

Members of Gunaxoo Kwaan appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

Dry Bay

Dry Bay Field Trip Slideshow

L'uknax.a'di Gathering Slideshow

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Field Trip to Dry Bay, Part 1	Sally Edwards, Lorraine Adams, Fred White, Mary Ann Porter, and George Ramos were recorded on May 3-4, 1998 in Harold Robbins' cabin at Dry Bay, Alaska. This is the first interview of the field trip where members of the Gunaxoo Kwaan traveled from Yakutat to Dry Bay with National Park Service employees to search for lost village sites and record recollections of life at Dry Bay. A slideshow, including photos of the participants and scenes from the field trip, accompanies the interview. In this first interview, the various speakers talk about genealogy and family ties to the Dry Bay area, the history of Dry Bay houses and clans, cultural protocols of names and naming, and changes in methods of travel in the area.	2001-10-02_PT.1	Dry Bay	May 3, 1998
Field Trip to Dry Bay, Part 2	Sally Edwards was interviewed on May 4, 1998 by Wayne Howell and Mary Ann Porter in Harold Robbins' cabin at Dry Bay, Alaska. This is the second interview of the field trip where members of the Gunaxoo Kwaan traveled from Yakutat to Dry Bay with National Park Service employees to search for lost village sites and record recollections of life at Dry Bay. In this interview, Sally remembers the devastating earthquake of 1958, intriguing bear encounters, and later discusses genealogy and lineage with Lorraine Adams.	2001-10-02_PT.2	Dry Bay	May 4, 1998
L'uknax.a'di Gathering, Part 1	This gathering of the L'uknax.a'di Clan was organized and presented by Lorraine Adams on September 18, 1999 at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall in Yakutat, Alaska. It was the first comprehensive gathering of the Gunaxoo Kwaan in recent memory, and served to update people on the Dry Bay Project Jukebox, and educate them about clan history and genealogy. In this first part of the two part recording of the gathering, participants speak about the search for and identification of old village sites, the designation and management of historic sites, and the genealogy of Dry Bay Chief George, the last chief of Gus'eix.	2001-10-09_PT.1	Dry Bay	Sep 18, 1999
L'uknax.a'di Gathering, Part 2	This is a continuation of the gathering of the L'uknax.a'di Clan that was organized and presented by Lorraine Adams on September 18, 1999 at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall in Yakutat, Alaska. It was the first comprehensive gathering of the Gunaxoo Kwaan in recent memory, and served to update people on the Dry Bay Project Jukebox, and educate them about clan history and genealogy. In this second part of the two part recording of the gathering, Lorraine Adams talks about genealogy, Fred White talks about cultural protocol and traditions regarding genealogy, and George Ramos talks about the history of the Tlingit people and their poor treatment by Russians.	2001-10-09_PT.2	Dry Bay	Sep 18, 1999