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This is part of a series of interviews with interns, by Melinda Barr, NANA Development Corporation Shareholder Relations Intern

This is part of a series of stories shared by Elders from the NANA region. These are excerpts from their conversations with Hilda Narvauġauraq Haas, translated from Iñupiaq. My name is Thomas Pungalik. I am 82 now. I have lived in Noorvik all my life. My dad (aapa) was Jack Pungalik. My mom (aaka) was Cora Kaummuaq Coffin Pungalik. She grew up in Kobuk. My aapa was an orphan and when he small, he moved from family to family. He and my aaka had 18 children. I am number 16. People settled in Noorvik because the fish and wood were plentiful. I was born here in this house (#4), the fourth house in town, built in 1914. The stories I am about to tell are true. There was a boy whose shoulders were hoary marmot and his bottom half was beaver. He lived on a mountain where he could watch for other shaman (aŋatkuq). Two young men from the Upper Kobuk went looking for aŋatkuq. First they traveled by kayak, then they climbed the mountain where the hoary marmot lived. At the top, the men ate and fell asleep. One of t

Elder Interview: Mildred Black from Shungnak My name is Mildred Ulusik (?) Black. I was born in Shungnak in 1933 (?). When I was about six years old, my family moved upriver to our summer fish camp. It was named Kagiak (?). That fall, we did not return home because our big cabin in Shungnak caved in. For many years, we stayed at Kagiak year-round. We did not go into town at all. Later, we moved to Aayaluk (?) because it had a big sandbar. I had an older sister, Pearl, and an older brother, Joseph, and a younger sister, Nina. We would play by ourselves with whatever we had. We did not play all the time. We worked hard, but we had fun while working. At camp, I learned from our mom how to take care of fish and how to dry fish. The fish needs to be cleaned and scaled before you hang it on the rack to dry. It needs to be turned from the sun. When the fish is cut too thick, it does not dry. It will be raw. You have to watch it very carefully. In summer, my uncle would go to different places to check for berri

This is part of series of interviews with NANA's once shareholder interns, showcasing their professional journey and depicting how their experiences during their internship lead to benefit their success today.

This is part of series of interviews with NANA's once shareholder interns, showcasing their professional journey and depicting how their experiences during their internship lead to benefit their success today.

This is part of series of interviews with NANA's once shareholder interns, showcasing their professional journey and depicting how their experiences during their internship lead to benefit their success today.

This is part of series of interviews with NANA's once shareholder interns, showcasing their professional journey and depicting how their experiences during their internship lead to benefit their success today.

This is part of series of interviews with NANA's once shareholder interns, showcasing their professional journey and depicting how their experiences during their internship lead to benefit their success today.

This is part of a series of interviews with interns, by Cheyenne Ticket, NANA Development Corporation Shareholder Relations Intern.

This is part of series of interviews with NANA's once shareholder interns, showcasing their professional journey and depicting how their experiences during their internship lead to benefit their success today.

This is part of series of interviews with NANA’s once shareholder interns, showcasing their professional journey and depicting how their experiences during their internship lead to benefit their success today.

NANA Development Corporation Shareholder Relations Intern, Cheyenne Ticket, interviews NANA Management Services Marketing & Communications Intern, Krystin Bogan

NANA Development Corporatoin Shareholder Relations Intern, Cheyenne Ticket, interviews NMS Camp Services Inter, Liisia Marie Morris.

NANA Development Corporation Shareholder Relations Intern, Cheyenne Ticket, interviews NANA Management Services HSSE Intern, Anne Walker.

Former intern, Kally Siñiqsraq Greene-Gudmundson interviews NANA shareholder intern Cheyenne Ticket to kick off the 2017 season. This is part of a series of interviews with interns, by Cheyenne Ticket, NANA Development Corporation Shareholder Relations Intern.