Traditional Food Guide: Karen Mitchell

Posted At : July 28, 2008 1:00 AM
Related Categories: Outdoors,Alaska

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Taken from Traditional Food Guide, available at www.anthc.org.

Read by Karen Mitchell: "I work at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, where we try to come up with better ways to help Alaska Native cancer survivors." Karen is part Yup'ik Eskimo, and a lifelong Alaskan. She lives in Anchorage with her daughter, Jennifer, and their miniature dachshund Whennie, who thinks she rules the world. Website: http://www.emersonfortheday.com.

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium just produced the Traditional Food Guide, which covers the nutritional value of subsistence foods and includes traditional recipes. In the book, Eleanor McMullen of Port Graham describes how they shared their fish:

"I took my grandson out in a skiff to catch pinks. We caught 15 fish, and then went house to house to give to elders. At the last elder's house, we gave away the only fish left. After leaving, my grandson asked ‘Umma, what are we going to do? My mom needs fish too.' I said we can go fishing tomorrow. This was my grandson's first experience of the ‘gift of giving' to others."

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