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Our Alaska Alaska is the largest U.S. state. The Bureau of Land Management estimates the size as 365.5 million acres. Of this, only about 10 percent was returned to Alaska Natives through a corporate structure. Land sales cover expenses. |
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· Alaska Natives became US citizens in 1924 according to a 1926 court case. Then other stuff happened |
· Forever, we utilized what we could. This is the corner of an old Dena'ina cabin |
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· Eklutna Lake is where we hunted sheep and is the place of our village creation story. This lake now supplies water to all of Anchorage | · Tresia sits next to grandfather's old fish camp, enjoying the natural setting within Anchorage |
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· Ship Creek
was our place for the first fish of spring. This downtown location is now a popular in-city fishing spot |
· We inspect evidence of modern development on our land, used by others before we got it back |
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· Trapper Creek is in the Matanuska Valley, which is also part of our traditional lands. This is a typical scene of the area | · Flora grows tall in undisturbed areas |
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· Moose within city limits know that we can't eat them. They are often seen next to houses and near our gardens | · Doug
Slate knows that I like purple. This was a neighbor's street side flower bed |
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· Bluebells - Natural plants and native soils are calming | · I like trails. This old dirt pathway was the same one we walked on as kids at Copper Valley School |
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· Berries, yum | · More berries, double yum |
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· The first snow of 2006 showed on the mountains in September. We call it "Termination Dust" meaning the end of summer | · Doug hugged the first moose he ever met when he came to Alaska. This calf moose visited Doug just recently |
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· This is our neighborhood in the summer | · This is the trail to our house from the shed - where we take breaks from the many children |
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· Eagle River flats was the start of one of our travel routes for hunting and other subsistence lifeway activities | · Happy Trails |
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