Sharing the Past with Beverly Siemens
Karuk Tribal member Beverly Siemens has lived in the Hoopa Valley for 12 years. Her most memorable experiences were spent in Portland, Ore., where she lived for thirty years as an adult. Read More →
Elder Profiles
Sharing the Past with Minnie McWilliams
Hoopa Tribal member Minnie McWilliams, 87, has been a lifetime resident of the Hoopa Valley and despite hardship said her life was very good. Read More →
Sharing the Past with Mildred Nixon
Lifetime Hoopa Valley resident and Hoopa Tribal member Mildred Nixon expresses the thing she feels that is most precious in life, strong family values and shared her experiences meeting boxing all-time favorite, Muhammad Ali, and her favorite past-time, watching softball tournaments. Read More →
Elder Profile: Ruth McCardie
Seventy-four year-old Hoopa resident Ruth McCardie has seen a lot. From witnessing one of the worst tragedies that has ever occurred in the world, the Holocaust, to one of her personnel favorite’s, being employed as the Hoopa High School librarian for 25 years. Read More →
Sharing the Past with Ruth Yerton
Hoopa resident Ruth Yerton grew up through the Depression, World Wars I and II, and both the 1955 and 1964 floods. Yet, those events weren’t what brought the 92 year-old the most despair in her life. Read More →
Hoopa Elder Profile: Ruby Jarnaghan
Hoopa Tribal member and lifetime Hoopa resident Ruby Jarnaghan spread her lifetime knowledge of the Hoopa Valley and the drastic changes it has gone through in the past. She opened by talking about the most important thing in her life now and in the past, her very large family. Read More →
‘Dolly’ Embraces the Hoopa Valley as Home
Hoopa Tribal member Dorothy ‘Dolly’ Lincoln has spent the majority of her 66 years in Hoopa, her hometown. She has experienced changes in tribal government and something that hits more close to her heart, the beauty of the Hoopa Valley dwindle away. Read More →
