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N-1992-173: 0002 · Item · 1982-84
Part of Simeon, George

This item is a recording of an interview conducted by George Simeon in 1982-1984 with George Washington Porter. In this recording, Porter discusses his experience whaling on ships throughout Alaska and the Siberian Coast. He discusses the process of making muktuk and the uses of blubber. Porter also discusses the difference between home accommodations of Inuit in Alaska and Inuit in Siberia. He accounts his time as a reindeer herder for Louman Brothers. and recalls Laplanders in Siberia herding reindeer and having reindeer races. He also discusses Laplanders parading reindeer with Inuit from Alaska in Philadelphia and Baltimore in the United States. Porter recalls whaling and huting walrus around Banksland, Herrold Island and Cape Elizabeth and what the Inuit did with the whale and walrus. Inuit men would sell seal grease oil prsssed in tanks when they went on the ship to America. Later, American ships would have Inuit sail with them to hunt and skin walruses.

[Tutchone - Mary Eiklund]
N-2006-003: 0265B · Item · 1973
Part of Robert Howren fonds

This item is a recording of a field interview of Mary Eiklund by Robert Howren Snag, Yukon to gather Tutchone words and phrases. It corresponds to N-2006-003: 1-4.

N-1992-173: 0001 · Item · 1982-84
Part of Simeon, George

This item is a recording of an interview conducted by George Simeon in 1982-1984 with George Washington Porter. In this recording, Porter discusses his life as a boy whaling with his father, and his travels as a young man working on ship and traveling to places such as Seatle, Washington; Havana, Cuba; Jamaica, and Siberia. Porter also discuses his time in the American army during WW1 and his travels to California, Virginia and New Jersey. He accounts his experience when the Armistice was signed. Porter knew Arctic explorer and ethnologist, Vilhjalmur Stefansson and talks about what he remembers about him. Porter also discusses the difference between Inuit in Alaska and Inuit in Siberia including the different styles of clothing, dog sledding, and homes.

N-2003-019: 0002 · Item · 2000
Part of NWT Mining Heritage Society fonds

Interviews with former employees of Giant Mine. Bill Case, a former Giant Mine employee conducted the interviews on July 24, 2000 during a reunion for Giant Miners in Edmonton, Alberta. Tape 2 contains interviews with Tom Natyshen, Bill Hall, and Sam Bitner. Topics discussed include when they came to Yellowknife, what work they did while at Giant Mine, who they worked with at the mine, and what they did after the mine into retirement. There is also a short account on Tape 2 of Bill Case's history in Yellowknife and his experience at Giant Mine.

N-2006-003: 0256B · Item · [ca. 1971]
Part of Robert Howren fonds

This item is a recording of a field interview of Antoine Adekat by a female interviewer to gather Dane-zaa (Beaver) words and phrases.