Selawik Stories
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These are stories that I remember after 12 years in the village of Selawik, 3 miles above the Arctic Circle and 90 air miles east of Kotzebue.
For a long while I have wanted to add onto the handwritten journals that have about Selawik. After living there for 12 years, there are so many stories that have not been told. Here they come!
When I went to check out Selawik before I took a teaching job, I got off of the small plane and felt like “Wow, look at this place”! Selawik includes 3 islands: airport side, island and school side. I called the principal on the only phone at the community building and waited for him to come from the school side around the island and to the airport. I took a walk down a shody boardwalk and noticed an elderly woman skinning muskrats. She was sitting on plywood and in front of her was a wooden rack with at least 100 drying muskrats. I thought to myself, “This is the place I want to be!
Ed Warneke, the principal, came to get me in a boat and we had to maneuver around floating ice chunks to reach the school side. It was breakup! The Selawik River was breaking up!
These stories will not be chronological, but random instead.
–
Jerry Olive
PO Box 2363
Seward, Alaska 99664
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