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Steven and Catherine Attla, Interview 1, Part 1 |
Steven and Catherine Attla were interviewed on July 22, 1992 in Huslia. The interview took place in the living room area of their home. On tape Catherine talks about how she grew up, how she was adopted by her grandparents while still a baby, and how as a teenager she worked like an adult. With Steven, she talked about the summers while their children were growing up that he spent away working. She also talked about how through evening classes, she's managed to acquire roughly a 7th grade education even though as a youngster, she never went to school.
Finally she talked about some of her experiences interacting with government agencies. She worked as a translator right after the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was passed. She was hired to travel around to several villages in the Interior helping to inform people about the Act. She has also served for 16 years on the local Fish and Game Advisory Board, and in discussing her experiences, she talked about subsistence issues. She has also worked in the school passing on her knowledge of her culture. She believes this kind of effort is very important.
On the tape Steven talked about how Huslia came into being, shaped in its early days by the desire to have a school. Efforts by his father and Jimmy Huntington, who believed their children deserved an education, and the help of Bishop Gordon of the Episcopal church eventually led to a school being built, equipped, and staffed by a teacher. He talked about how this first school came about. Historic ties to the Kobuk area and the travel and trade those ties entailed were another topic we discussed. Steven also talked about various stores and traders along the river who had helped the Native people.
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93-15-21 |
Gates of the Arctic National Park |
Jul 22, 1992 |
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Steven and Catherine Attla, Interview 1, Part 2 |
This is a continuation of an interview with Steven and Catherine Attla by Wendy Arundale on July 22, 1992 in Huslia, Alaska. This is a continuation from tape number Oral History 93-15-21.
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93-15-22 |
Gates of the Arctic National Park |
Jul 22, 1992 |
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Steven Attla, Interview 1 |
This is a continuation of an interview conducted with Steven and Catherine Attla at their home in Huslia, Alaska on July 22, 1992 with Wendy Arundale. This is a continuation from tape number Oral History 93-14-21 and 93-15-22. Although the first interview was with both Steven and Catherine Attla and took place on July 22, 1992, this second interview is just with Steven Attla and took place on July 24, 1992. In this interview, Steven talks about old timers he remembered who used to live along the Koyukuk River.
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93-15-57 |
Gates of the Arctic National Park |
Jul 24, 1992 |
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Steven Attla, Interview 2, Part 1 |
Steven Attla, Sr. was interviewed on April 28, 1995 by Mike Spindler in the studio at KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series. In this first part of a four part interview, Steven talks about his life, hunting and trapping, and traveling by dog team. Steven believed strongly in preserving his culture and language, and passing it on to the younger people in the community. His memory abilities shined when telling stories of growing up in the countryside, making hunting trips, and traveling by dogteam or river boat. While telling stories, Steven would interweave picturesque details with a lesson and good humor.
The interview was edited and produced by Mike Spindler.
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96-19_PT.1 |
Raven's Story |
Apr 28, 1995 |
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Steven Attla, Interview 2, Part 2 |
This is the continuation of an interview with Steven Attla, Sr. on April 28, 1995 by Mike Spindler in the studio at KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series. In this second part of a four part interview, Steven talks about traditional hunting beliefs and sharing of food, trapping, fishing, and hunting geese, ducks, and moose. Steven believed strongly in preserving his culture and language, and passing it on to the younger people in the community. His memory abilities shined when telling stories of growing up in the countryside, making hunting trips, and traveling by dogteam or river boat. While telling stories, Steven would interweave picturesque details with a lesson and good humor.
The interview was edited and produced by Mike Spindler.
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96-19_PT.2 |
Raven's Story |
Apr 28, 1995 |
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Steven Attla, Interview 2, Part 3 |
This is the continuation of an interview with Steven Attla, Sr. on April 28, 1995 by Mike Spindler in the studio at KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series. In this third part of a four part interview, Steven talks about hunting bears and wolves, traveling by dogteam and snowmachine, and shares traditional "woodsman" stories. Steven believed strongly in preserving his culture and language, and passing it on to the younger people in the community. His memory abilities shined when telling stories of growing up in the countryside, making hunting trips, and traveling by dogteam or river boat. While telling stories, Steven would interweave picturesque details with a lesson and good humor.
The interview was edited and produced by Mike Spindler.
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96-19_PT.3 |
Raven's Story |
Apr 28, 1995 |
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Steven Attla, Interview 2, Part 4 |
This is the continuation of an interview with Steven Attla, Sr. on May 13, 1997 and August 4, 1997 by Mike Spindler in Huslia, Alaska for the Raven's Story radio series on KIYU-AM public radio station in Galena, Alaska. In this fourth part of a four part interview, Steven talks about hunting bears, moose, geese, and muskrats, and shares traditional "woodsman" stories. Steven believed strongly in preserving his culture and language, and passing it on to the younger people in the community. His memory abilities shined when telling stories of growing up in the countryside, making hunting trips, and traveling by dogteam or river boat. While telling stories, Steven would interweave picturesque details with a lesson and good humor.
The interview was edited and produced by Mike Spindler.
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99-01_01/02 |
Raven's Story |
May 13, 1997 |
