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Thursday the 21st of February, I am meeting with Auntie Agnes Moore at the Pioneers Home of Alaska to get her permission to video tape her tomorrow. I do not want to just bring in my camera and assume she will let me film her––that would be very rude in our culture.
The meeting went well, she has agreed to be video taped, but not today. She would like to be more “presentable.” We had a good laugh about that, but it was after 11 and almost lunchtime, so I think she was hungry. The staff at the Pioneers Home is very helpful and has encouraged me to come and record all the history of her life before it is lost. If only I had more time to do this, but I need to focus on my project for right now.
Just got through calling Auntie Judy to remind her that I was driving over, she has the stomach flu and is not feeling well. I won’t be driving down to Manley today. I was really looking forward to seeing Manley, can’t remember the last time I was there. Manley also has a natural hot springs, as a child I remember bathing in the screened in bathhouse — I was really looking forward to soaking away some worries.
Aunt Judy did give me some info about some of the history saying that Uncle Fred and Henry Moses were the interpreters for the services held at Mission. “They translated the sermon from English to Athabascan because those old-timers did not know how to speak English to well,” she said. She also mentioned what Aunt Agnes said about the Athabascan songs when sung that the building just vibrated, “like something else was there.” Aunt Judy also went to school at the Mission, but said she never lived in the orphanage.
My mother and step-father just stopped by to say that they are heading down to Anchorage today instead of on Friday. I was supposed to videotape her today, but they are in a hurry to get on the road. I’m very mad right now, since I have traveled this far and she is the reason why I have done so.
Ginger has some photos of Doyon and TCC that she would like me to go through, now that my mothers left for Anchorage — I have the time to go to her office.

Journal Entries

It’s Wednesday the 20th of February and I am heading to Fairbanks to interview Agnes Moore of Tanana, AK, Judy Woods of Manley Village, AK, and my mother, Flora Henry (Kokrine) Demoski. I’m very excited about this project, but also feel a little bit intimidated by the whole thing. It has been a long time since I saw either of my aunties, but I have spoken with Auntie Judy on the phone for several other projects, it is going to be nice to see her.
Rev. Helen Peters, I could not reach. Her son, Guy, said that she might have gone to Anchorage for the Fur Rondy. It is very hard to keep track of our parents these days; they travel far more often than we do. Grandma Helen is said to be the person to talk with, I might be able to get Guy to record her and send me the info that I need.
I hate to leave Juneau now that the sun is coming out this weekend, I am also being very hopeful on getting the info that I need.