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Nenana, Alaska: Preserving Salmon For Winter
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wealth of Alaska for its early inhabitants was in its waters.
Villages grew up at the confluences of rivers that brought
the highly nutritious, oil-rich salmon from the ocean every
year. To keep the salmon for the winter months, Native people
build drying and smoking racks. The salmon are cleaned and
split, joined only at the tail. They are then hung from
the poles to dry. Smokey fires are kept burning to help
cure the fish. |
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