Interview with an Athabscan woman

I met Faith Petersen at the Tanana Village Administrative Tribal Center when I arrived in Tanana Village the first day. A quiet and soft-spoken Athabascan woman, she seriously presented herself. But she is also a fisherwoman with deep roots in the Tanana culture and subsistence fishery, and I was here to learn about salmon fishing along the Yukon River. With her mild demeanor and, I realized, a true passion for her people and culture, I soon decided to ask if she would be willing to be interviewed about the fisheries and life of the people in Tanana Village. She cordially agreed and a few days later I rigged the camera and set up the microphone in one of the offices. Listening through the interview later I realized that through her soft-spokeness she is an articulate woman with serious words.