<font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">Keeping Alutiiq culture alive<br><br>Article published on Thursday, July 29th, 2010<br>By SAM FRIEDMAN<br>Mirror Writer<br>USA<br><br>It does not get more hands-on than the Traditional Harvesting Camp at Dig Afognak.<br>
<br>During the five-day session last weekend on the east side of Afognak Island, campers hunted octopus, helped gut a harbor seal and gathered beach greens. They helped to gillnet salmon and also to prepare pickled salmon and seviche.<br>
<br>Campers are between 9 and 14 years old, and adults or older teens take on the most dangerous jobs like shooting the seal, filleting the fish and preparing and sanitizing the cans for pickled salmon. But harvesting camp is for kids who are comfortable getting their hands bloody. Fortunately, this group was well up to it.<br>
<br>On a trip to the Litnik River weir Saturday, the campers pushed forward for the privilege of holding a still-beating nickel-sized heart during a dissection. They had no trouble identifying sex and species of the salmon waiting to pass through he weir.<br>
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