Sivu Summer | Elders Camp
- City: Kiana
- Region: Far North
- State House District: 40 - Kotzebue
- State Sentate District: T - Golovin
- Grantee Type: None of the Above
- Grantee Discipline: Non-Arts/Non-Humanities
- NEA Outcomes: Learning
- Project Discipline: Folklife/Traditional Arts
- Activity Type: Arts Instruction
- Grant Award Amount: $2000
- Project In-Kind Contribution: $0
- Grant Year: 2022
- Grant Gategory: Youth Cultural Heritge Fast Track Grants
- Fund Source 1: Private Foundation - Rasmuson Foundation
- HAYC Goals: Alaskans Participate in the Arts and Cultures of our State
- ASCA Goals: Enable all Alaskans to lead expressive lives
- ASCA Objectives: Promote the importance and value of creativity for all.
Project Description
Through this project, students learned to make different cultural foods and how to sew and bead. They also learned how to make Nanuun salve.
Impact
The project positively impacted the community bypassing knowledge about cultural foods and medicine to younger generations. An elder showed the students where to pick cotton buds, how to pick them, how to prepare them and how to make Nanuun with them. "The advice that I would give other Alaskans, to meet the youth’s cultural heritage needs, is to definitely ask an elder to show and teach the youth. Elders have so much knowledge on the culture where they are. Cultural foods, medicines, clothing, and other things are passed down by elders."