Chief Peter John, Traditional Chief of Interior Alaska, sang and discussed these ancient Animal songs of the Athabascan people at his log home in the village of Minto during a snowstorm on November 9th, 1993. He was 94 years old at the time, singing songs that were maybe 5 or 6 hundred years old. He requested the Tanana Chiefs record these teachings of the traditional law and provide the recording to his people and to all others who might profit from hearing them. Chief John was an eloquent, spiritual man who lived the traditional Athabascan lifestyle in Alaska's Interior for 102 years.