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A group of Elders talks about traditional methods of weather prediction, recognizing tides, etc.
A group of Elders talks about traditional methods of weather prediction, recognizing tides and taking precautions, cannery work, family gathering spots in Prince William Sound v. sharing community food resources in Lower Cook Inlet, clam digging, bounties for eagle claws and seal snouts from the canneries, how the cash economy changed subsistence practices, women's knowledge of geography, how the Elders as children learned about traditional places from their Elders, various bays and coves they remember learning the traditional names for, the cartographer's mistake in which Port Graham was supposed to be named English Bay, cultural landmarks, why certain places were settled and others were not, harvesting animals like porcupines, family settlements rather than communities in older times and how the Russians changed settlement patterns in the region, Paluwik's origins as the Russian settlement Alexandrovsk to hunt for sea otters, navigation, and other topics.
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