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106 冰河湾的土著居民努力保护传统 Glacier Bay Natives Try to Preserve Traditions Mike Osborne Glacier Bay, 22 Aug 2001 07:42 UTC In early June, two teenaged boys 1)revived a native tradition denied their people for more than 80 years by international 2)treaty. They visited a small, 3)windswept island just outside Glacier 4)Bay named Middle Pass Rock, where they gathered three dozen sea 5)gull eggs. Recent changes to the international treaty that protects 6)migratory birds made the egg gathering legal for the first time since 1918. But United States Park Service regulations still 7)prohibit 8)subsistence food gathering of any kind inside Glacier Bay. The local native people, the Hoonah Tlinget, are 9)pushing hard to have their subsistence rights within the park 10)restored as well in a campaign 11)fueled by a growing desperation to keep their traditional knowledge alive. Kevin Skeek is one of the native teens chosen to gather gull eggs on Middle Pass Island. In the Tlinget culture your uncles were supposed to educate you, because your father or your mother would be too easy on you and you wouldnt be able to survive, he said. So, like the first time going hunting. My uncle took me out and showed me how to hunt and things like that and then my first time fishing he showed me how to do that. And its things like these that are 12)passed on. Like now, when my 13)nieces and But in Glacier Bay that cycle has been 15)disrupted. As the years pass, there are fewer and fewer native elders who remember life in the bay before federal 16)preservation. Skills, rituals and traditions normally taught by family are not being passed down and may soon be lost. Kevin Skeek had to go back two generations to learn something about egg gathering. I was told from my grandparents exactly how to gather sea gull eggs, he said. If you look in the nest and theres one or two eggs you can take both of those because theyve just been laid and they havent been 17)incubating that long, so. But if theres three you