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My Father's Smokehouse: Life at Fishcamp in Southeast Alaska
Hardcover
Biographies GeneralIndigenous Food of the Americas
Publisher Price: $32.99
ISBN13: 9781513128627
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Published: Apr 5 2022
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Filled with stories of family, food, and culture, and interwoven with personal recipes and photographs taken by the author, My Father's Smokehouse folds the reader into a beautiful island landscape.
Prescott emphasizes the importance of learning the traditional values of where one lives, gratitude for what the land and sea provide, and the responsibility to share with community.
[Prescott's] book is filled with traditions, memories and stories surrounding Southeast Alaska life, including a family's perseverance, the wisdom of Sáaacute;mi and Tlingit cultures, and respect for elders and their knowledge of the culture. The smokehouse at the fish camp is named after her father.
--Wrangell Sentinel
The smokehouse at Mickey's Fishcamp holds more than fish. It is filled with traditions, memories, and stories of a thriving Southeast Alaskan life--of a family's perseverance, of the wisdom of Sámi and Tlingit cultures, and of respect for Elders and their knowledge of the natural world.
Mickey's Fishcamp is named after three generations of Prescott fishermen who commercially fished the waters of the Inside Passage, and is located near one of the oldest Tlingit settlements in Wrangell, Alaska. Here, next to the rainforest and sea, author Vivian Faith Prescott has found her place in the world. She is a student and teacher of the natural environment--harvesting spruce tips, berries, sea lettuce, and goose tongue and processing salmon, halibut, and hooligan--who combines traditional practices with modern knowledge.
Heartwarming and introspective, My Father's Smokehouse tells one woman's stories of Traditional Knowledge that is learned and passed on, from one generation to the next.
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