Excerpt from The Subsistence Lifeway of the Tlingit People: Excerpts of Oral InterviewsThe Forest Service recognizes the value of the Tlingit knowledge regarding the land and resources it manages. To increase its awareness and sensitivity to this knowledge, Richard Newton served as a Native Historian for the Forest Service during 1979. Dick had recently retired after many years with the Regional Office in Juneau. His own personal knowledge of his heritage, and his relationship with the elders in some of the outlying communities made him an ideal person for the job.Dick's assignment was to gather information about subsistence food. There was no formal plan of research, no tightly structured format to follow. Dick went to some of the villages and spoke with the elders in the Tlingit language. He taped and later translated and transcribed the interviews. The interviews cover many topics, including some not direct ly related to subsistence. In the typical Tlingit way, hard technical data is interwoven with subtleties of the Native world view. What you will find in this book is a small portion of the total wealth contained in the transcriptions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.