like these for sea otter pelts. [cook] the oral history that is passed between generation to generation in villages, especially within alaska, is the record that never got written. it's what's been associated and how people perceive the events within their own language, and if the historian is sensitive enough and willing enough to spend the time with the people, that story can be re-created and reexamined in a different time and space and told a different way from a different angle. hi, frisky. how are you? that's a good boy. juanita is one of the oldest individuals in the village of nanwalek here. she has ties to some of the outer villages that existed along the coast at some point but that no longer exist here. she's also an extremely interesting and wonderfully welcoming person to talk to. anahonaks came from aialik... and so are tanapes and kenaibacks, i think. and those were particular families? people, yeah. i'm in my 70s. last year, i found my birthplace, which i never used to know. they were logging there.