Project Information

Title: Culture Camp Funding for the Chugach Region 24220405

Project Year and Number: 2024: 24220405

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2023: 23220405, 2022: 22220405

Principal Investigator (PI): Lauren Johnson (Chugach Heritage Foundation)

Managing Agency: ADFG

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Chugach Region

Restoration Category: Public Info. Science Mgmt. and Administration

Injured Resources Addressed: Not Specified

Abstract:

The Chugach Heritage Foundation is working to strengthen and restore Chugach Region Cultural Camps that were disrupted as a result of the Exon Valdez Oil Spill. The goals of this program (cultural camps) are to help our people continue teaching the Alaska Native subsistence and cultural lifestyle in the Chugach Region, which is vital for future generations of Alaska Natives and the economy in the Chugach Region to com. Subsistence hunting, gathering, and sharing this knowledge is a way of life for all residents that live in the Chugach Region. Alaska Native cultural camps have been taking place in the Chugach region since 1994 and have provided unique opportunities to unite youth, elders, and the Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Eyak (Athabascan), and Tlingit Alaskan Natives of the Chugach region to rediscover the history and culture of their ancestors. This program will help to expand subsistence activities and the sharing of traditional knowledge around the Chugach region and in the Alaska Native communities. It will address the program goals and objectives by providing funding for the material and resources needed to market, develop, operate, and sustain the Chugach Region Cultural Camps. Currently there is not enough funding to expand, market, enhance, operate, and sustain Chugach Regional Cultural Camps for the following cultural camps:
1. Chenega ‐ Chenega Fish Camp
2. Cordova ‐ Native Village of Eyak
3. Hinchinbrook Island ‐ Nuuciq Spirit Camp
4. Nanwalek ‐ Nanwalek Summer Youth Worker Program
5. Port Graham ‐ Port Graham Cultural Camp
6. Seward ‐ Qutekcak Native Tribe
7. Tatitlek ‐ Peksulineq Cultural Heritage Week
8. Valdez ‐ Valdez Native Tribe
Funding for each camp will be used for personnel to administer the camp and subsistence programs; to purchase commodities and to purchase new subsistence related equipment. Travel expenses are built in for Nuuciq Spirit Camp.


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