In Kotzebue, the teens learned about edible wild plants, cut and jarred dried, black seal meat in oil, and helped build drying racks for hanging fish.
Students cut dried seal meat in Kotzebue’s South Tent City on June 29, 2024. From left: Vera Norton from Kotzebue, Naomi Oxereok from Wales and Jamie Twitchell from Kasigluq.
It was Ochoa’s first time hearing some of the recordings of his family singing. He was in Kotzebue with a group of 14 kids for a cross-cultural program. “There’s more sea animals here, obviously, because I’m more from the Interior. And I don’t think I’ve ever had seal,” Moses said.“Traveling in Alaska is so expensive that a lot of the time they wouldn’t have the opportunity to go to these places,” John said. “We’ve had kids that experience the beach for the first time, we’ve had kids to walk on tundra for the first time. And that’s like a really crazy thing to watch. Someone experienced that for the first time and they’re in high school.
“We strategically choose kids from different cultures, different regions, different grades, and different levels of knowledge about their culture so that they can really learn from each other as well,” she said. “We have kids from Alakanuk, Utqiaġvik to Tununak, Emmanok, all over the place.”
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