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Tlingit Culture on Hunting, Fishing, Food & Life | Episode 226

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Education, Wilderness, How To

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy is joined by Heather Douville. Heather lives in Craig Alaska, learning and sharing the traditional methods of fishing, hunting, gathering, and furrier as taught by her father and other elders of her Tlingit community. Topics covered include sustainable relationships with the land, teaching oral history, lost language, matrilineal kinship, learning by doing, Tlingit food calendar, traditional fishing methods, handmade halibut hooks, valuing elders, cold smoking fish, food preservation without freezers, being a furrier, sharing the harvest, taking only what you need, deer hunting, seal is an acquired taste, and many others stories and topics related to Tlingit culture and history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey folks, Randy Noverg here. Welcome to Louis Pold's Hunt Talk Radio.

0:54.8

Hey folks, Randy Noverg here. Hope everybody is doing well. Welcome to another episode of Louis Pold's

1:06.2

Hunt Talk Radio. Today I have a super cool guest. We've been working on trying to connect and do

1:14.8

a podcast for about three months now. Heather DuVille owns a platform called A.K. for Alaska,

1:25.2

A.K. Moosey. She is an amazing person who is telling the story of food and hunting and fishing

1:37.2

and the cultural tradition of her people. She lives in Southeast Alaska, a home of the

1:43.8

Lincoln tribes. This Instagram page she has, as much as I'm not a social media nut, you all know

1:53.2

that I hardly know how to do it. The style, the tone, the messaging, the way she uses it to tell

2:01.0

stories about how food and traditions and the culture of their people are so tied to the lands

2:08.3

and the landscape. I watch every bit of it. I'm not a big fan of watching things on social media,

2:16.3

but in this case I make an exception. Heather is trying to make sure that the story of

2:25.8

the food aspects, the landscape aspects, the cultural aspects of her people gets a voice and

2:35.9

she's doing a great job of it. She has her dad on there who is a very compelling character. I

2:45.2

don't know if that's the right term to put to it. I don't know if he realizes how intriguing he is,

2:51.8

but through the process of seeing how they use, I don't care if it's fish, if it's sea mammals,

2:58.0

if it's fur, deer, berries, fish eggs, you name it. There's something there that gets converted

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