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We live by the moon The moon told us playing certain times of the year. Should be available and so we gauged our life by what shy standalone was and what type of food George would be got at that certain time of the seasons and other natural cycles have always determined the patterns of Alaskan native life. It is an intricate and interdependent fabric of existence. Hunting fishing gathering plants for food and medicine teaching and learning and celebration in all activities and in every village and camp there is always respect and honor for the land the sea and the animals. Happily April into May. That's when the salmon start coming the red salmon the king salmon papa would say you know that one a red salmon is cut it up into small pieces.

The first one always goes to the elderly people the respect that. You respect them you get more in the end. The bowhead whale. Provided lots of supplements to our communities. Even the bones of the whales they caught they utilized it making structure their dwellings. Everything that we did we didn't waste it. Like if they cleaned that fish we take it to our garden and papa would spread all that left over India and grounded for fertilizer. That's why we had a very good potato turnout so what we have would grow real big for lies and that you can have now as the summer season goes to the end of corn before the

fall and the Fall starting when they pick berries to the black berries the salmon berries down in the valley like the red carpeted all cranberries all the way down in the tundra. This past winter I went to. Gather some park on the south side of the island and when I came home my wife asked me you know how cold it was today. No it didn't bother me. I want to hold you with one shell factor with my in a 65 below. Modern hunter and you know I got the motor of the skiff the snow machine. We would have the CPS global positioning system but I carry all the time. Spring is here. If there was a family that. Made me feel I had a loss in the

family. Traditionally our people would come and bring the Bring the family food so people people were always sharing fresh fish that dates back home from checking it. People come and ask for food here but couldn't. Even though it's the last pot you have cooking your wife's cooking. Gathering food. And our culture is very much Carrie.