[No one expected a flood] 68
[… the smell of fish baking] 69
[The water rose.] 70
Qawanguq with House 71
Collection Object 77
Before There Was a Train 91
[She coughed and the women came out] 92
Family History 94
Family story 96
m y story 98
or 100
[not a fish] 102
[I was only a girl] 103
As Far as Records Go 104
Articulation of Distance; Or, The Hero Is Daily Called to Mind 107
In Communion with the Non-Breathing 108
[shallow bodies] 109
Family Ghosts 110
Ways to Sustain 113
Re-articulation 115
Manipulating Manifesting (Re)Generating Landscapes 116
[Only the beginning is true] 119
Ways to Skin a Fish: A Genealogical Survey 129
FAMILY GHOSTS
Michael I wrote you
a story I didn’t know
what you did
what we did
if I should dig
you up but
it didn’t feel right
you should remain so far
from the sea
it didn’t feel right
I couldn’t see you
Is this the shape these things should take?
I
FOX HUNTINGi
i Told by Stepan Prokopyev, Attu, August, 1909. Cylinders 25 and 26 (four minutes and forty-five seconds). Transcribed and translated into Eastern Aleut by Jochelson and Yachmenev with the help of Stepan Prokopyev, Umnak, 1910. Of the paired lines, the first is Attuan, the second Eastern Aleut. The written text differs in several spots from the cylinders. New York Public Library Manuscript 61.
ii Contamination (or copying mistake).
iii Some words missing
FAMILY HISTORY
RECORD OF GRADUATES AND RETURNED STUDENTS
U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.
NAME: Michael Chabitnoy
1. Are you married and if so to whom? Yes! To Lillian M. Zellers of Lebanon, Pa. [white]
2. What is your present address? Hershey, Pa
3. Where can I find you? Our aunt? Any relations?
4. What is your present occupation? Moulding chocolate
5. Tell [me] something of your present home. I have a nice home and has all conveniency in it.
6. What property in the way of land, stock, buildings, or money do you have? None.
7. What other positions have you held since leaving Carlisle? None
8. Why did you stay in Pennsylvania?
9. Why didn’t you stay with our aunt?
10. Tell me anything else of interest connected with your life:
11. Tell me anything:
FAMILY GHOSTS HISTORY
CARLISLE INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF STUDENT
Degree of Indian Blood: Full
Well developed.
Normal.
Normal.
Normal.
Father. Dead. Yes. Traumatized.
Mother. Dead. Yes. Heart Trouble. (bad heart.)
Brother. Dead. I. Whooping Cough.
Sister. Dead. I.?
(Aunt.)
Titiani.
