Tlingit people have sustainably harvested our traditional foods for millennia. Salmon are integral to the survival of our way of life, so much so that each of the five Pacific salmon species are owned by different Tlingit clans and represented with their crests. Kichx̱áan (Ketchikan) is world renowned for its fishing. There, archeological evidence of fish traps and weirs radiocarbon date to over 3,000 years ago. Using complex methods of drying, smoking and storing in seal oil, salmon were gather

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