Molly Hootch: I Remember When: Growing Up in Alaska on the Kwiguk Pass of the Lower Yukon River

Everyone in the family, except her mother, was away at fish camp. Her mother, Sophie, stayed in the village of Emmonak, awaiting the birth of her second daughter, Molly. Molly was born in the territory of Alaska in the summer of 1956. Alaska would not become a state in the union until 1959. Molly Hootch was born into a family that knew only a subsistence lifestyle along the banks of the lower Yukon River. It was a harsh life by today's standards. Her mother was the typical Native wife. Her ...