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the importance of the goal leg has
always been
with within our people you know so we
have to be careful on
how it gets managed you know h.i is
managing it now so
and we've got to make sure that we gotta
try to get
get it not only to the elders but get it
to the younger people too
you know and i know there's some younger
people that
young children and young youngsters
probably wouldn't eat it but
you know they get the chance i know they
will we don't want to lose
one of the components of our culture
that we're just getting
getting um single legs that's one of the
things that we've always you know
our people have always done the
importance i've seen
is that our culture is struggling right
now
is really struggling trying to keep
identity who we are
so in order to hang out and hang on as
much as we can we have to
try to keep everything we got we can't
let we can't one let one piece go and
then
i saw that's okay you know it's like a
kuik you know i'll say
we can't eliminate a piece of it we have
to use every part we can say oh we're
just gonna
eliminate that part of it i always say
no
you know because the younger people that
are going in there see
see see the cookies they say
but they did it this way the elder did
it this way
you know glacier bay is the big part of
the huna people
it's the same thing as the sea legs you
know this sea glass came from glacier
bay
you know the pride of the people that
went and got it
and bring it home and they give it to
the elders and they say
we got these from glacier they can
imagine that
you know it's like anything else he
knows i you know i used to be on a
search board and i used to
you know advocate for elders you know
they they said the elders need
their traditional foods because
happiness heals
when they're happy their heal heals so
the same thing in glacier bay
you know we've got some regressive days
so imagine the
feeling of the when i think it's when
they
when they when they get it it's all you
know
can you feel it can you feel it when you
eat it can you feel it
you know so so the spiritual part of it
is is just being
from place your bay you know that's
partly
part of who you are does it the heart
you know your heart says
oh man this is cool you know because you
know
spiritually people don't understand what
spiritually means
you know the feeling of the heart and
the feeling of your ancestors
the single leg is you know i always say
you gotta keep everything that we our
people are made of
with us or else each time you take
something away
it diminishes your identity every time
something just disappears and it's
one part gone eventually nether parts
could be gone
you know so so gotta make sure
it's all there all the time
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