![]() ![]() Kashatok is the principal of the only school in Newtok, Alaska-a town of 354 perched at the mouth of the Ninglick River, just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean. The fish did not want his bones fought over. The black fish poked his head out of the river to see who it was that owned the trap, and he saw that the village was dirty, and that the dogs were not tied up, and the woman came out to throw out the scraps of a fish dinner and he watched the dogs fight over the bones. “And he came to a fish trap that was broken,” he said, “and some of the fish in it were dead. As he spoke, he looped the string into different shapes: it became a hunter, a mountain, a boat, an oar. Grant Kashatok was telling me stories the traditional Yup’ik way-his fingers entwined with string, like a child playing cat’s cradle. “So there is a black fish swimming up the river, looking for a fish trap to swim into. ![]()
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