Every family move to their own eddy along the river where they can catch salmon and dry it for the winter. They dry fish for about one month. They catch maybe much as ten fish a day, twenty fish a day, maybe. That adds up fast when you dry it. That they have to divide it between three or four, five families, each camp. One eddy to supply all these people.
- Roddy Blackjack, Little Salmon/Carmacks Elder
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If we were out of moose meat all we had to do just
go out in the bush and get whatever we wanted.There were a lot
of grouse, a lot of rabbits, a lot of gophers. People up here
eat gophers, because they're different type of gopher up here
. . . They are not like prairie gophers at all. These are edible
up here. They're a real delicacy to a lot of people. There's a
lot of small game we could go out and get. A lot of us fished.
We didn't have a butcher shop to run to all the time.
Annie Geddes, Ta'an Kwach'an Elder
We have respect for game. You don't talk about it or make fun of it, for they have spirits too. All animals have it. If you believe in the Great Spirit, that's the god of our ancestors, and you try to be observant of what they have done and that's passed down from one generation to another. You never make fun of an animal.
- Billy Blair, Beaver Creek Elder
