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This culture camp was organized by Heather Powell Mills with the help of the City School, of the tribe, and of the Huna Heritage Foundation. During this camp, Many activities were proposed like fishing, like harvesting black seaweed or beach asparagus, spruce root weaving too. And these activities were certainly aimed at young people so that they could experience all the things by themselves while also practicing Tlingit language and say, "This is inside me." But among those present were also babies, adults, elders, And so on this occasion, I've discovered the importance of transmission of Tlingit culture and traditional foodways among generations. I also began to discover the fact that these traditional foodways embrace a deep spiritual dimension. This spiritual dimension joins together past, present, and future and concerns the relationship with natural species.

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