Subsistence News-3/31/95

To   Subsistence 2

From:      Larry Roberts:R10F02A

Postmark:  Mar 30,95  8:08 AM          Delivered: Mar 31,95  9:57 AM

Status:    Previously read

Subject: Subsistence News-3/31/95

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*U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland has temporarily opened the Kanektok, Goodnews, and Arolik Rivers to the subsistence harvest of rainbow trout. Villages from southwestern Alaska have been barred from such activity since the 1970’s. The remote rivers are popular with tourist fly fishermen from around the world.

*Fred Clark has been named southeast subsistence advisory council coordinator. Fred has served as Chugach NF Native Liaison and archaeologist. He replaces Carol Jorgensen.

*According to anthropologist Sergi Kan, despite the importance of marine hunting and fishing in southeast Alaskan subsistence activities, the land was seen as a safer domain. Should a person drown and the body not be recovered and cremated, the spirit of the deceased could not be reincarnated and was lost forever.

*The Katie John lawsuit, pending review in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, involves a 79 year old Athabaskan womans claim to a Copper River summer fish camp called Batzulnetas (Bat-zull-neat-us), “Roasted Salmon Place”.

*Cedar, spruce, hemlock, birch, willow, and cottonwood are used for house logs, sheds, fish drying rakes, and many other uses.