Read by Reader/Choir Director Iliodor “Eddie” MerculieffPhoto credit: Iliodor Henry Kozloff Matthew 2:1-12 1. I’isuusax̂ Txin agukuĝaan Iyud̲iiyam Vifliyiimagan ilaan Hiruud̲ax̂ tanamaguuĝugan aslagaan; I’irusaliimam hadan

Archpriest Michael Lestenkof and then-deacon Paul Merculief January 7, 1968 Photo Credit: Lindsay, John A., Gina Rappaport, and Betty A. Lindsay. 2009. The Pribilof Islands,

Moses shares about the use of wax cylinder recordings made by Waldemar Jochelson, work done by Gordon H. Marsh in Nikolski. More information about the

Moses shares about the work compiling the earlier made resources by Waldemar Jochelson, Leonty Sivtsov etc. to transcribe from the previously used Cyrillic-based orthography into

Moses shares about traveling between villages to record speakers and their way of speaking to create books.

Being asked if he’d worked with Fr. Ishmael Gromoff, Moses shares of the visits Fr. Ishmael would make to Atka for church services and how

Moses shares about how men from Atka would go to St. Paul and St. George to work in the commercial fur seal harvesting in summers

Upon being asked the similarities and differences in Unangam Tunuu spoken in St. George and St. Paul at the time of his visits in the

Moses shares of working with Nick Galaktionoff in Unalaska getting Qawalangim Tunuu language to be used in classrooms. Difficulties of identifying words used in each

Moses shares of starting work with Knut Bergsland, traveling to communities throughout the Unangax̂ region to check older data and collect new data to put

Moses Qagidax̂ Dirks introduces himself and gives insight of how much Unangam Tunuu of the Niiĝuĝim dialect was spoken in Atka while he was growing

The different kinds of local foods eaten and the importance of them to our health

Using Unangam Tunuu, Mary Bourdukofsky of St. Paul Island gives an account of her experiences during the evacuation of St. Paul, St. George and communities

Lestenkof, Michael February to May 1994 Tape 1, Side A

Lestenkof, Michael February to May 1994 Tape 1, Side B

The excitement of catching halibut and distributing it throughout the village and how it was prepared and eaten.

Differences and transitions in values from his childhood to now

Bathing in earlier times: from children in pails to elders in steam baths

Life growing up in a house with eight siblings

Transition from eating mostly local foods from the land and sea around us to the American diet we still use to this day

Prichastim Muulitvaa Mangiyux̂takuqing Guuspudax̂ kayux samtakuqing, hinga maagusa |ristusam, Aguuĝum anĝaĝigan Hlax̂ akux̂txin; tunux̂taaĝuĝin agliisagan wa slum adan sakaaĝaqaa, amakun ilin waya itaangix̂ akuqing. Kayux

  Pribilof Islands, Alaska: A Historical Account Told Through Illustrated Genealogy and Census Records Excerpt from the Introduction… This book addresses the people of St.