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Tape Reference Number: H2002-10-06, Part 1
Mary H. Demientieff talks with Carol Atkins, Debbie Turner, and Karen Brewster at her home in Bethel, Alaska on April 25, 2003 about…
1) Her personal and family background.
birthdate\ Nulato\ parents\ father -- Dahlquist, Bill\ mother -- Dahlquist, Pauline\ father -- job\ jail\ Nulato\ mother -- compassion|
Holy Cross Mission\ childhood\ memories\ mother\ dog sled\ Nulato\ spring camp\ hunting -- muskrat\ hunting -- duck\ Halfway, Mrs. George\ Mountain, Charlie and Mary\ Mountain, Margaret\ camp life\ food -- Eagle Brand Milk\ hunting -- canoe\ skinning -- muskrat\ food -- muskrat\ food -- taboo\ gathering -- duck eggs\ Yukon River -- break up|
3) Going to school at Holy Cross Mission in 1942.
Nulato\ boat\ father -- death\ mother -- illness\ Father McElmeel\ Father Baud\ Holy Cross Mission\ Mission -- arrived at\ steamboat\ Nenana\ Mission -- first impression\ religion|
4) Knowing the Athabascan language when she was small, and her life at the Holy Cross Mission.
language -- Athabascan\ mother -- Athabascan\ Mission -- loss of language\ identity -- Athabascan\ culture -- Athabascan\ stick dance\ Kaltag\ mother -- tough\ Mission -- life at\ Mission -- bells\ Mission -- schedule\ mother -- missed\ mother -- 3rd marriage\ Stickman, Fred\ parents\ marriage\ father -- Stockholm\ mother -- Wiseman\ sister -- Solomon, Madeline\ brother -- McCarty, Bill|
Holy Cross Mission\ school -- grade level\ home economics\ work -- infirmary\ Edward, Sister Mary\ job -- kitchen\ skills -- learning\ cooking\ sewing\ childcare\ nurse\ education -- continuing\ Wasillie, Bertha\ Palmer\ marriage\ Demientieff , Joe\ courting\ wedding\ fall camp\ life -- change in\ loneliness\ Mission -- missed\ cabin -- construction\ praying\ cabin -- roof\ Shageluk\ Simon, John\ work -- hard\ work --value of|
6) Life at fall camp, and a fire that burned down their trapline tent.
fall camp\ freeze-up\ dogs\ trapping -- mink\ trapping -- otter\ sled\ trap line\ fur -- price\ tent\ fire\ belongings -- saved\ Holy Cross|
7) The value of raising children.
children -- number of\ son -- death\ grandchildren -- number of\ great-grandchildren -- number of\ family -- value of\ pride\ raising children -- proud of\ prayer\ discipline\ children -- boys\ children -- girls\ Edward, Sister Mary\ child -- sick\ blessing\ priest -- drowned\ Bethel\ Brother Fox\ child -- lose of\ Turner, Frank\ search\ lake\ Walker, Mary\ Demientieff, Corriene|
8) Losing all their belongings in a fire on their boat.
boat\ fire\ fish camp\ river -- break up\ water -- high\ belongings -- loss of\ family -- raising\ food stamps\ prayer\ family -- value of|
9) Teamwork of raising children, and sending her children away to high school.
children -- raising\ family\ teamwork\ children -- help of\ chores\ children -- focus on\ job -- lack of\ babysitter -- lack of\ play\ prayer\ mother-in-law -- mentor\ beading -- learning\ sewing -- learning\ school -- children\ St. Mary's High School\ garden\ tuition -- potatoes\ tuition -- moose meat\ tuition -- dolls |
10) Life at fish camp as a family.
fish camp\ family\ boat -- kicker boat\ mother-in-law\ skills -- learning\ fish -- putting away\ beading\ trapping -- fox\ trapping -- mink\ camp life\ memories\ marriage\ babies -- caring for\ diapers\ diapers -- Pampers\ Demientieff, Dean\ diapers -- cloth\ safety pin|
11) The joy of life at fish camp working hard together as a family.
fish camp -- travel to\ river -- break up\ joy\ children\ family\ work -- hard \fish -- wheel\ fishing -- nets\ education -- children\ chores\ fish camp -- leaving\ fish -- cutting\ mother-in-law\ discipline\ Mission\ spirituality|
12) Berry picking at Reindeer Lake and changes in raising children today.
fall\ berry picking\ families\ Reindeer Lake\ camp\ Demientieff, Rudy\ fishing -- nets\ food -- fish\ food -- pancakes\ work -- hard\ life -- changes in\ children -- raising\ distraction -- lack of\ chores\ life -- simple\ stuff -- too much\ Christmas\ gifts -- doll\ money -- lack of\ Fernivall, Ida\ clothing -- boxes of |
13) Winter activities, and her job as cook for thirty years at Holy Cross School.
winter\ children -- school\ sewing\ trapping\ job -- cook\ job -- length of\ retirement\ health|
fall\ hunting -- moose\ moose -- number of\ meat -- jarring\ food preservation -- changes in\ meat -- hanging outside\ hunting -- beaver\ meat -- preservation\ food -- soup\ moose -- shooting\ ?, Jeanie\ Montana\ camp\ moose -- husband's last\ Modiak cabin\ husband -- sick\ husband -- relationship|
15) Having children as the greatest joy in her life.
joy\ babies\ memory\ baby -- delivery\ flood\ Fox, Father John\ birthday present -- baby\ Baptiste, Priest John\ Demientieff, John\ Mission -- house\ lights -- kept on\ Brother Fox\ Mrs. Anthony\ baby delivery -- locations\ Demientieff, Jareth\ baby delivery -- homebirth\ birth -- assistance\ mid-wife\ birthing -- position\ mother-in-law\ Demientieff, Corriene\ cry -- joy\ birth -- problems\ Mission -- volunteers\ Stieslenger, Sister Dorothy|
16) Her favorite nuns at the Mission, and holiday celebrations at the Mission.
Holy Cross Mission\ nuns\ Edward, Sister Mary\ infirmary\ Sedonia, Sister Mary\ garden\ work -- hard\ vegetables -- sale of\ kitchen\ Ida, Sister Mary\ Catherine, Sister\ Victoria\ Mission -- ran away from\ village\ Mrs. Sims\ Eskimo ice cream\ berries -- mouse berries\ Sims, John and Elsie\ punishment\ Sister Joanne\ hair -- cutting\ insult\ Golden Jubilee\ Anchorage\ Edmonds, Sister George\ Joanne, Sister Mary\ reunion\ discipline\ punishment -- writing lines\ Mission -- happiest time\ memory\ Lent -- day before\ money -- paper\ carnival\ gifts\ feast -- pancakes\ games\ Christmas -- sad\ holiday -- favorite\ Easter\ life -- quality of|
17) The most important things in her life, and the value of education.
children -- importance of\ family -- spending time with\ fish camp\ youth -- advice to\ education -- value of\ school\ life -- changes in\ technology\ prayer|
18) Different types of work she has done, and reflecting on what she does in her life today.
retirement\ job -- cook\ volunteer -- church\ funerals\ church -- leader\ grandchild -- Robin\ grandchild -- raising\ GED -- value of\ beading\ walking\ Bethel\ health\ prayer\ decision\ advice\ fish camp\ Yukon River -- break up\ salmon -- king salmon\ fish camp -- emotional attachment|
19) Playing music at fish camp, and plays the guitar and sings a song.
fish camp\ Demientieff , Mike and Daisy\ music -- playing\ fish camp -- visitor\ guitar\ Demientieff, Connie\ singing\ violin|
garden -- potatoes\ tuition\ school -- St. Mary's High School\ fish camp\ garden -- cabbages\ soil\ family\ grandson -- Demientieff, Clinton\ garden -- flowers\ pride|
21) Doing chores at the Mission, and taking care of the smaller children.
Holy Cross Mission -- chores\ chores -- schedule\ chores -- sweeping stairs\ chores -- kitchen\ chores -- washing dishes\ chores -- emptying honey buckets\ work -- infirmary\ Edward, Sister Mary\ patients\ work -- church\ job -- favorite\ work -- childcare\ babies -- memories\ Anvik|