The majority of people in villages still depend solely on their subsistence way of life. For most of us today, it is crucial to eat subsistence foods to maintain good health practices.
I am thankful for the tundra which is essentially our dining room table in rural Alaska, although a majority of the transients from rural Alaska into urban cities like Anchorage, maintain the subsistence way of life. It’s like living the best of two worlds, i.e., village and western way.
Mom and Dad used to go downriver to Kialiq to get their winter berries, salmonberries mainly every July 22, for at least 10 days. That was enough time to fill their wooden barrels with the juicy orange tundra berries…