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> THE BERING SEA!!!, lizzie posted a message!!!!!!
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post May 2 2006, 01:19 PM
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.:.mrs. barlow.:.have fun in the bering sea!! dont shoot any polar bears....
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Bob Woolf, science teacher in Ga
post May 3 2006, 07:11 PM
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QUOTE(Lizzie @ May 2 2006, 01:19 PM) *

.:.mrs. barlow.:.have fun in the bering sea!! dont shoot any polar bears....
lizzie jenkins


I know you were joking, but you might be interested in knowing that the people here on Saint Lawrence Island, the Siberian Yupik "Eskimos," actually catch and eat polar bears. The use the fur for many things, too. I have some polar bear meat in my refrigerator right now. A friend, Ben Apassingok, caught the bear, and he is hoping to use the fur to make "flies" for flyfying, to sell. The people here do not have many job opportunities. They use their own local resources and their own skills and work to provide for themselves. That is called the "subsistence" economy, which they have had here for several thousand years. They also make crafts and art, such as walrus ivory carvings, for which they are world famous. They sell these items for money, in the "cash" economy. Their overal economy is called a "mixed economy" of both subsistence and cash.

Right now the village is getting ready for the Spring bowhead whale hunt, which the do from boats they make themselves. They use the skin of female walrus, split, to cover their boats.

My students are studying about DNA right now, so I'd better to help them with their reading assignment.

Bob Woolf, Gambell science teacher
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post May 4 2006, 04:29 PM
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scratch that, shoot as many polar bears as possible
OK?
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