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Eric Mack

For three years in the early 2000's, Eric Mack worked at KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. He was program manager and also helped conduct some interviews for the station's Raven's Story radio series that recorded elders' stories, observations, and experiences relating to wildlife, fish, and subsistence in the Koyukuk and middle Yukon areas of interior Alaska. He also published articles in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper, contributed to National Public Radio with stories focused on politics, energy and the environment, and is author of a book titled 90 Below: Or, What Bush Alaska Taught Me About Drink, Destruction & Survival (2011). He remains a journalist in the Lower 48 focusing on technology.

Eric Mack appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

As Interviewer

Interview Title	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Abstract
Joe Beetus, Interview 2	2004-01-27	Raven's Story	Joe Beetus was interviewed in February 2004 by Eric Mack in Hughes, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series on KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. In this interview, Joe talks about the history of the Koyukuk River area, including early settlements, the 1918 flu epidemic, dogteam mail delivery, and stores in Allakaket and Alatna. He then provides an overview of his life and living a traditional subsistence lifestyle mixed with working in mines, cutting wood for the river steamboats, and operating heavy equipment. He also talks about learning to hunt, traditional beliefs about animals like porcupine, dealing with cold weather, trapping, and changes he's observed in the salmon and caribou populations. The interview was edited and produced by Clinton Brown.
Pollack Simon, Sr.	2004-01-25	Raven's Story	Pollack Simon, Sr. was interviewed in May, 2004 by Eric Mack in Allakaket, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series on KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. In this interview, Pollack talks about living a traditional subsistence lifestyle based on hunting, trapping and fishing. He discusses learning to live off the land from his grandfather, trapping marten, and hunting moose and wolves. He also talks about his career as a dog musher, changes in dog mushing, trapping and fishing, how life has changed so that living off the land is now more difficult, working as a wildlands firefighter, and the role of politics in wolf management. The interview was edited and produced by Clinton Brown.
David and Kitty David, Interview 2	2004-01-26	Raven's Story	David and Kitty David were interviewed in February 2004 by Eric Mack in Allakaket, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series on KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. In this interview, the Davids talk about living a traditional subsistence lifestyle based on hunting, trapping and fishing and the challenges of raising a family at remote camp locations. They talk about their own childhoods of growing up at camps, traveling by dogteam, hunting in the moutains, attending church, and earning money as firefighters. Kitty tells some traditional Athabascan scary stories and they mention the 1994 flood on the Koyukuk River. The interview was edited and produced by Clinton Brown.

Interview Title

Archive #: Oral History

Project

Abstract

Joe Beetus, Interview 2

2004-01-27

Raven's Story

Joe Beetus was interviewed in February 2004 by Eric Mack in Hughes, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series on KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. In this interview, Joe talks about the history of the Koyukuk River area, including early settlements, the 1918 flu epidemic, dogteam mail delivery, and stores in Allakaket and Alatna. He then provides an overview of his life and living a traditional subsistence lifestyle mixed with working in mines, cutting wood for the river steamboats, and operating heavy equipment. He also talks about learning to hunt, traditional beliefs about animals like porcupine, dealing with cold weather, trapping, and changes he's observed in the salmon and caribou populations.

The interview was edited and produced by Clinton Brown.

Pollack Simon, Sr.

2004-01-25

Raven's Story

Pollack Simon, Sr. was interviewed in May, 2004 by Eric Mack in Allakaket, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series on KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. In this interview, Pollack talks about living a traditional subsistence lifestyle based on hunting, trapping and fishing. He discusses learning to live off the land from his grandfather, trapping marten, and hunting moose and wolves. He also talks about his career as a dog musher, changes in dog mushing, trapping and fishing, how life has changed so that living off the land is now more difficult, working as a wildlands firefighter, and the role of politics in wolf management.

The interview was edited and produced by Clinton Brown.

David and Kitty David, Interview 2

2004-01-26

Raven's Story

David and Kitty David were interviewed in February 2004 by Eric Mack in Allakaket, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series on KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. In this interview, the Davids talk about living a traditional subsistence lifestyle based on hunting, trapping and fishing and the challenges of raising a family at remote camp locations. They talk about their own childhoods of growing up at camps, traveling by dogteam, hunting in the moutains, attending church, and earning money as firefighters. Kitty tells some traditional Athabascan scary stories and they mention the 1994 flood on the Koyukuk River.

The interview was edited and produced by Clinton Brown.