Kunibe, Elizabeth, Kim Getgood, Chuck Brown, Freda Beasley, Isabella Apfelbeck
Kunibe, Elizabeth, Kim Getgood, Chuck Brown, Freda Beasley, Isabella Apfelbeck Food, Taste and Health: Garden Revitalization in Alaska This poster will display recent and historical photographs and food items of revitalized gardens in Angoon and Klukwan Villages of Southeast Alaska. The Tlingit and Haida People of Southeast Alaska have been planting and harvesting regionally grown indigenous plants, as Tlingit oral histories have recorded. Ships logs and records have recorded the Tlingit and Haida growing vegetables and potatoes since the early 1800’s. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has records of gardens in Southeast Alaska producing root vegetable harvests as large as 4,000 lbs of potatoes in Angoon in 1952. For many reasons planting life ways of the Tlingit changed and it is in recent years with a focus on health and sustenance, their planting practices are being revived.
