Steven Attla family, September 1962

Item — Box: PCA 303

Identifier: ASL-P303-16

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Steven was gone, he worked as a river boat pilot for the river freighters all summer. Catherine was a daughter of Mary Vent, sister to Flora Huntington, Little Sophie Sam. The young man on the left was actually her uncle Jossilin Olin who lived with Steven and Catherine after his father, Olin the medicine man, died in 1960. Jossilin was a half brother to Mary Vent. The others are all Catherine and Steven's children. Catherine and Steven still live in Huslia. Steven has been school janitor for 11 years now. Catherine is prominent in the series, Make Prayers to the Raven.

Dates

September 1962

Biographical / Historical

Slides #15 – 38 are of family groups around Huslia in September of 1962. The young people who were the first group of students to go to high school were getting ready to leave town and we wanted pictures of them with their families so everyone could have a copy of the photos. This was a very traumatic as well as exciting time for the families. Life would never be the same for any of them and they knew it. It was a time of mourning for many parents. I have arranged the families alphabetically as the most useful way to organize them.