Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.
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"They're getting ready to go out. This will be for the winter supply of fish, [to] supplement the lunch program," Esmailka said. After the fish are cleaned, they are loaded into the back of a beat-up truck to be dropped off at the school's walk-in freezer. Salmon blood, to be returned back to the river, sloshes around in plastic totes as the truck lurches along Akiachak's heavily potholed main drag.
Woody Woodgate, the school district's federal programs director, said that staff favor indigenous foods in the district's cafeterias. "Not really taking anything away from the [United States Department of Agriculture] and the school lunch program, but most of that stuff that's on those menus is designed for people in big cities, the lower 48, and a lot of it just goes into the trash can because kids don't wanna eat the food," Woodgate said."So if we can supplement with fish and moose, and especially fish and moose that the kids catch.
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