Why we love living in a village...

There is dog sledding on the weekends. Open gym ever night, where kids and adults can go and play basketball, volleyball, kick ball (Indian, and regular). There's a care center where you can go to play bored games, cards and dice. Sometimes they have dances on the weekends. Take walks, and say hi to everyone. Go sledding. There is also a 8 mile camp, where kid would go out and make campfire tea, listen to the older people tell stories of how it use to be. In the summer they have baseball games every weekend. Community water fights. Boating. Another Summer camp at 6 mile. Where they learn basic survival, in the wood. Everyday friday the shop opens up for kid to work on their snow machine, or weld together a stove, grill ect. The Little Dribblers (4-8 Grade) , take trips to both Fairbanks & Chalkistic to attend a basketball tournament. There's also a ice rink.

Shee'lene Fields - Fort Yukon

10 top reasons I love living in the village:

• Life activities change with the seasons, so you always have something to look forward to: camping, fish camp, ice fishing and snowmachining, then break-up and finding eggs, then fall berry picking! THE FREE LIFE: no taxes, no law enforcement, nothing. Hardly even people!
• Surrounded by family--no strangers
• Steambath
• Potlucks
• Beautiful scenery
• Takes one minute to get ANYWHERE in the village
• I can change jobs like I change my clothes
• You don't take anything for granted (i.e. hot water, electricity, restaurant food, the opportunity to see the city!)
• It is my home! My people have lived here for 10,000 plus years

I can go on and on, but I will leave it here! The five Salmon kids are between the ages of 17--25. We all LOVE the village--we are never bored. But we were also born into a family of work-a-holics and have found a way to love our work and our busy village lives. Living together makes every day meaningful, and we don't waste a moment of our time together. We travel, hunt/gather subsistence foods, play basketball, gather at grams house to play card games, camp, get together for dinners either outside or inside, play baseball, visit around town, ride fourwheelers, boats, snowmachines, and bikes, attend all village social events, read, watch TV....

AlexAnna Salmon - Igiugig