The Tlingit Foodway

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²As the result colonization, the structured of the Tlingit Foodway have alternated critically, where the Tlingit people used to trade fish with other clans, as it was the traditional practice of the Tlingit people, the natives can no longer rely on their fishing skills, as a consequence, the natives were involuntary to readjust into the western culture.

In the Video, Cory talked about how her grandmother have lost her smokehouse to the government, in the development of new roads. He talked about what the smokehouse represented to his people, how people would gather at the smokehouse, not only to socialize, but as part of the daily routine to winding down after a day of hard work. As the smokehouse was demolished, the live of native were

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