My mom s summer was busy at times but she was able to relax too. This summer, like all summers, she put up smoked fish for the winter. The first thing she did was gut and fillet the fish then wash them in water and finally, hang the fish to dry on racks in the smoke house where they were smoked for two to three weeks. She then filled about nine buckets with the smoked fish: four six-gallon buckets and the rest in five-gallon buckets. She also put away about nine to ten one-gallon ziplock bags of half-dried fish in our freezer and twenty to twenty-fivequarts of strips.

My Mom picked salmon and blueberries too. We both picked them back here on the tundra. There were a lot of blueberries this year and we picked more berries than last year.

She also went to St. Mary's a couple of times with my dad, Carlene and me to visit my sisters, Elena and Augusta. At the same time my parents went fiddling down there. While we were in St. Mary's my mom and I picked blueberries there too.

Told By: Mary Moxie

Interviewed By: Olga Moxie