The Yupiit School District's academic calendar revolves around subsistence harvests, so students can hunt moose in the fall and birds in the spring. The strategy is to pass along traditional knowledge and also boost attendance.
Students from the Yupiit School District learn how to prepare freshly caught salmon in Akiachak one June 23. Teachers and Elders meet students at a large cutting table near teacher housing. Originally the morning catch was supposed to be processed at a nearby community fish camp, but those plans were scrapped because a black bear was hanging around.
After the fish are cleaned, they are loaded into the back of a beat-up truck to be dropped off at the school’s walk-in freezer. Salmon blood, to be returned back to the river, sloshes around in plastic totes as the truck lurches along Akiachak’s heavily potholed main drag.Woody Woodgate, the school district’s federal programs director, said that staff favor Indigenous foods in the district’s cafeterias.
“Sometimes things take a little longer than maybe what we want,” said Woodgate. “But in the end we are able to get what we wanted to apply to the district, rightfully so.” Barron Sample is overseeing the drift net fishing component of the summer culture camp. He is in his third year as principal at the Akiachak School. He takes a quick tally of the children coming out on the river to fish.
After a 150-foot gillnet is unfurled, the boat drifts slowly down the river. The children intently watch a line of buoys for signs of life.While the first drift only yields two fish, the second brings in around a dozen: a mixture of reds, kings and chums. The students scream in delight as the squirming salmon are picked from the net, landing with a thud in a plastic tote.Constant turnover
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