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Pauline Chappelle

Pauline Chappelle was an Koyukon Athabascan elder from Ruby, Alaska. She was known for telling traditional stories about raven, sun and the moon and cultural origins, starvation times, traditional medicine, traditional spiritual beliefs, and encounters with bears. (Photo courtesy of Zeta Cleaver.)

Pauline Chappelle appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

Raven's Story

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Jim Johnson and Pauline Chappelle	James "Jim" Johnson, Sr. and Pauline Chappelle were interviewed on August 9, 1972 by an unidentified person in Ruby, Alaska. In this interview, Jim talks about starvation times and medicine people. He talks about how medicine people get their power to heal, the role of medicine women, and traditional beliefs about spirits and death. In parts of the interview, Jim speaks in his Native Athabascan language. Pauline tells a traditional Athabascan story about a brown bear trying to marry a fox. Photograph of Jim Johnson courtesy of Clara Johnson. Photograph of Pauline Chappelle in the 1980s courtesy of Zeta Cleaver.	91-12-74	Raven's Story	Aug 9, 1972

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Jim Johnson and Pauline Chappelle

James "Jim" Johnson, Sr. and Pauline Chappelle were interviewed on August 9, 1972 by an unidentified person in Ruby, Alaska. In this interview, Jim talks about starvation times and medicine people. He talks about how medicine people get their power to heal, the role of medicine women, and traditional beliefs about spirits and death. In parts of the interview, Jim speaks in his Native Athabascan language. Pauline tells a traditional Athabascan story about a brown bear trying to marry a fox.

Photograph of Jim Johnson courtesy of Clara Johnson. Photograph of Pauline Chappelle in the 1980s courtesy of Zeta Cleaver.

91-12-74

Raven's Story

Aug 9, 1972