Minchumina Origins

2011-09-26T01:24:00.000-07:00

I was about four. My parka was made by my mother out of rabbit skins and calf skin design work. The snow shoes are used to make it easier to walk in the deep Alaskan snow.

Alaska Native teachers needed

2011-07-04T20:00:00.000-07:00

Alaska Native teachers needed: "Community perspective Six-year-old Travis had the attention of the whole class as he sat dangling one leg off the table at the front of the first-grade room. I expected him to give us a quick le..."

Minchumina Origins

2011-03-28T20:35:00.000-07:00

Minchumina Origins

Minchumina Origins: "Minchumina"

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Enjoying Alaska s fall harvests Hunting is educational and fulfilling

2011-02-04T01:37:00.000-08:00

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Enjoying Alaska s fall harvests Hunting is educational and fulfilling

Jeannie and Siblings

2011-02-04T00:49:00.000-08:00

Rosie's Christmas Gift

2011-02-01T01:11:00.000-08:00

Rosie's Christmas Gift

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - All voices should be heard AFN delegates missed out on Senate debate

2011-02-01T01:04:00.000-08:00

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - All voices should be heard AFN delegates missed out on Senate debate

My personal photographer-Ethan Nelson

2011-01-08T00:08:00.000-08:00

Okay, I am not a Hobbit or a peasant! Shame on you Randy and Ethan! This is the quviut scarf that my wonderful children gave me when I officially became a cancer survivor! The scarf is make from musk ox fur which is the warmest fur there is. I am also adorning a wolverine and wolf ruff on my parka. It was very cold at the Ice Park-but very enjoyable! Loved wearing warm Alaskan clothing!

2010-11-22T18:57:00.000-08:00

Love my kids! Syra cuts my hair and Ethan is my photographer!

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I take advantage of every opportunity to Eskimo dance!

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Syra and Sid in Sid's early years!

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I spent two weeks with Sidney and Tonya when Sidney was born.

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I don't know what is with the mosquito net hat and the log pillow! It only took a few days for Syra to get comfy Alaska style!

2010-02-10T22:47:00.000-08:00

Talk about a multicultural family! We took this picture at one of our stops in Canada on one of our many trips to Alaska.

2010-02-10T22:39:00.000-08:00

We have a village phone near the airport. It sure beats the three mile hike to the old phone! This is only a fourth of a mile from our cabin. Now we have a satellite phone to make our connection to the outside world!

2010-02-10T22:35:00.000-08:00

As a Fairbanks Native Association board member, I was fortunate enough to make the beaded doily that two of our Elders are admiring as part of our recognition ceremony.

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One of our family gatherings at Jonathon's place. Jeannie, Dixie and Bolo are all siblings with Bolo's wife, Jane and Dixie's son Frank, also, Taya and Dennis.

2010-02-10T22:13:00.000-08:00

Our lives were blessed when my brother Jonathon and his wife Donna adopted Taya Marie. I was fortunate to be her first grade teacher. At the first grade Welcome Night she said, " Aunt Jeannie, What is your name again?" She was trying to figure out my identity as Mrs. Nelson.

Two Woodsy Relatives

2009-10-15T23:37:00.000-07:00

Randy and Tonya after hiking to the eagle's nest

at Lake Minchumina.

Picnic in Alaska

2009-10-15T00:05:00.000-07:00

Cute Little Maren Monster

2009-10-14T23:13:00.000-07:00

Camping with Guy and Cade

2009-10-14T22:58:00.000-07:00

Wise Little Maren

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2009-09-29T23:26:00.000-07:00

Our friend, Donna, with her mom, Carol at AFN in Anchorage.

2009-09-29T23:17:00.000-07:00

Jeannie and Jonathon doing what trapper's kids do!

2009-09-29T22:49:00.000-07:00

I so enjoyed walking at Creamer's field and enjoying the Fall colors.

Creamer's Field Fall Walk

2009-09-07T19:26:00.000-07:00

Enjoying the Sunshine!

2009-09-07T19:21:00.000-07:00

My First Time Holding the Moon!

2009-09-07T19:02:00.000-07:00

A Year's Supply of Cole Slaw!

2009-09-07T18:32:00.000-07:00

Ethan and I spent some time in the UAF Botanical Garden. There were about ten of these cabbages in a row!

2009-08-08T02:23:00.000-07:00

The mail plane goes to Lake Minchumina once a week.Randy and I flew to MHM in this one in June, 09.

2009-08-08T02:18:00.000-07:00

We fly to Lake Minchumina in chartered airplanes such as this one.

2009-08-08T02:07:00.000-07:00

We like to dip net in the Kenai, Alaska area. This was a particularly beautiful day. I loved the lively seagulls and will remember their sounds well into the winter days.

2009-07-17T00:22:00.000-07:00

Syra, Jeannie, Randy, Kade and Guy spent a week together in Rochester, Minnesota and visited Nauvoo, Illinois.

2009-07-17T00:19:00.000-07:00

Maren learned how to fish all by herself this summer.

Bald Eagle Nest at Lake Minchumina

2009-07-16T23:51:00.000-07:00

2009-07-16T23:39:00.000-07:00

Randy and Hazel became dipnet partners! Beauty is Hazel's daughter and she is trying out the neoprene waders.

2009-07-16T23:30:00.000-07:00

I babysat in the RV while my niece, Hazel, and Randy went dipnetting and the others were at Katmai observing bears. Old time Looney Tunes entertained everyone but Happy.

2009-07-16T23:23:00.000-07:00

Sidney is our first grandchild. She will be nine in November. She loves to read. She is famous for catching a 16 pound pike at Lake Minchumina. Her Inupiaq name is Qaguna.

2009-04-09T23:00:00.000-07:00

The Mt. Denali range from our cabin at Lake
Minchumina. This was taken at 3:30 in the
morning in late June.

2009-04-09T22:35:00.000-07:00

The coldest phone booth in the world!

2009-04-09T22:33:00.000-07:00

Our cabin at Lake Minchumina. Randy made the lumber. We have had many fun times here.

2009-04-09T22:30:00.000-07:00

Randy has taken us on many fun fishing trips.

2009-04-09T22:03:00.000-07:00

Tonya and Ethan under a bowhead whale jaw bone in Barrow, Alaska.

2009-04-09T21:54:00.000-07:00

On our trip home from Anchorage we watched this grizzily as it walked along the road!

2009-04-09T21:27:00.000-07:00

Ethan gave his dad an ice auger and they are drilling hole for our ice fishing escapade!

2009-04-09T21:22:00.000-07:00

My daughter, Syra, and her son, Kade ice fishing at Chena Lake in Fairbanks.

On my way to work---

2009-04-09T20:47:00.000-07:00

2009-02-20T21:07:00.000-08:00

I met Elizabeth and Herbie through my good friend, Maggie Pollock. I only knew Elizabeth as "mom" and was surprised to find out she was Elizabeth! I can still remember Herbie giving me a big hug each time I saw him and the way he always said "Jeannie" as he hugged me made me feel like I was one of his five daughters! Herbie was a famous dog musher running the Iditarod race making a name for himself as the "Shishmariff Cannonball."

2009-02-18T21:05:00.000-08:00

This is the view of Mt. McKinley (Mt. Denali) from our cabin at Lake Minchumina.

2009-02-16T23:39:00.000-08:00

The winter of 1957 in Vale, Oregon. This is my first grade year.

2009-02-13T00:44:00.000-08:00

This is a parka that I made while living in Barrow, Alaska.

2009-02-13T00:18:00.000-08:00

We wore the clothing our mother sewed from the furs our father trapped. I am the cutie in the white rabbit parka.

2009-02-12T23:53:00.000-08:00

My early years growing up at Lake Minchumina. Our dogs were our playmates. My father had a team of five huskies which he used as he trapped in the local area.

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Ice Fishing Dec. 08

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