Floyd Dryden Smokehouse Emil West and Amalie Fairchild Cultural - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Floyd Dryden Smokehouse Emil West and Amalie Fairchild

Cultural Specialist • Work with the Alaskan Native population at FDMS • Work to create a more culturally-responsive environment at FDMS • Collaborate with teachers to create projects that help our students learn about the culture that came before us

Mr. Yerkes

Culture Club/Wood Working Club • Combined the two clubs • Bentwood Boxes • Possibility of smokehouse?

Bentwood Box

Smokehouse Project Takes Flight • Bill Bennett with Sealaska • Supplied wood for smokehouse • Extra wood for more bentwood boxes projects

Smokehouse Issues • Safety • Time Constraints • Fish? • Housing/Placement of the smokehouse? • Bears? • How do we make cultural connections with the smokehouse?

Adrianne Schwartz • Nutritional, Organic Alaskan Foods Grant • Smoked Salmon • Salmon Jerky • Frozen, Raw Salmon

Culture Club Snacks

Smokehouse Project Begins

Smokehouse Project Continued

Smokehouse Project Continued

Smokehouse Project Continued

Smokehouse Project Continued

Smokehouse Fun

Not Always Fun….

Smokehouse or Outhouse?

Barbara Cadiente-Nelson

Barbara Cadiente-Nelson

Smokehouse Project Continued

Elder David Katzeek

Lyle James

Smokehouse Completed

Smokehouse Project with Mrs. Fairchild • Learn Traditional Tlingit Values • Prepare the salmon to be smoked • Why did Tlingit people smoke fish? • Life in a fishing camp for Tlingit People • Develop a connection with the food we eat • Enjoy Delicious smoked salmon!!

STEM Team Building Exercise

STEM Team Building Exercise

STEM Team Building Exercise

Tlingit Fish Trap

Brining the Salmon

Smoking Salmon!!!

Finished Product

But did it taste good?

You tell me……

Creating a more culturally responsive school!!!

Gunalchéesh!!!!! • Barbara Cadiente-Nelson • Tom Milliron, Jim Thompson, and Haifa Sadighi • Josh Yerkes • Goldbelt Heritage Foundation • Bill Bennett with Sealaska • Adrianne Schwartz • The students of FDMS