Keeping Alutiiq culture alive (fwd link)

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Keeping Alutiiq culture alive

Article published on Thursday, July 29th, 2010
By SAM FRIEDMAN
Mirror Writer
USA

It does not get more hands-on than the Traditional Harvesting Camp at Dig
Afognak.

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.

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.

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.

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