As a special treat, we had a guest speaker, Dorothy Frost. Dorothy is 50 yrs old and told about her village in Old Crow and her heritage. First she acknowledged her mother whose maiden name is Kekovitch which means "carry the arrow." Her mother died last year at age 92 but she cut her own wood, carried logs, and walked to town three or four times a day. She died after she broke her hip and her health failed soon afterwards. Dorothy explained she lived in a fly-in community that is a matriarchal society. The only access to Old Crow is by airor by canoe. The children, boys and girls, are taught to hunt, trap, skin, sew and cook. They eat mostly meat, lean caribou and salmon. Women are taught to snare while men go for bigger game. Children are taught not to "want" but to accept what they have. She also claimed that her Buntik tribe of the Poochin Nation may be related to the Navajo as they, too, tell stories of the land mass that connected the continents, stories of giant beavers and tales of the woolly mammoth.
We did a little shopping and then hit the Yukon Arts Center and Yukon Archives to get our passports stamped.
LeRoy took a break to watch the Daytona 500 while I took a nap. In the evening we attended the "Frantic Follies" stage show, a Vaudeville revue of Gold Rush variety entertainment.
Happy 4th of July!!!
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Have a great celebration today!