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Tundra Medicine Dreams: Lance Mackey Does It Again

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Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life. Thursday, March 13, 2008. Lance Mackey Does It Again. This post is too late to be news (no time for writing in the last few days) and anyone who wants to know already does, but I just had to say it here. Lance Mackey won this year's Iditarod Trail International Sled Dog Race on Wednesday morning just before 3 am, with an elapsed time of 9 days, 11 hours, 46 minutes and 48 seconds. In doing so, he has done the impossible for the second year in a row. Baring unf...

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Tundra Medicine Dreams: Dog Mushing Season In Full Swing

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Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life. Saturday, January 17, 2009. Dog Mushing Season In Full Swing. Dog mushing is the official sport of the state of Alaska. Does any other state have an official sport? Surfing in California, snowshoeing in Maine? If so, I’ve never heard of it. Having a state sport seems to be another way that Alaska is unique. And the Yukon Quest. Any musher who wants to run the Quest or the Iditarod has to prove his or her ability to manage a dog team over many miles of trail&#4...

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Tundra Medicine Dreams: Yupik Eskimo Diet and Obesity

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Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life. Sunday, January 07, 2007. Yupik Eskimo Diet and Obesity. Obesity and diabetes used to be virtually unknown among the Yupik Eskimos of southwest Alaska. Their traditional diet reflects their hunter-gatherer lifestyle: it consists mostly of meat, fish, berries, and a limited selection of greens and vegetables that grow wild on the tundra. Some Yupiks still eat a predominantly traditional diet, and have little trouble with obesity. The other effect of so much sug...

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Tundra Medicine Dreams: Huffing

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Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life. Sunday, September 03, 2006. In the villages of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, gasoline is the most common substance being huffed. Even at $5 per gallon (that’s village price; in Bethel we’re only paying $4.86 per gallon. HA! Gas is a cheap way to get high and is readily available. The long term physiological effects are more severe. Besides death, they include brain damage, loss of vision and hearing, slurred speech, forgetfulness, and damage to liver, kidneys...

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Tundra Medicine Dreams: Warmer At Last!

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Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life. Monday, January 12, 2009. This morning Dutch and I awoke to a welcome sight: the thermometer was reading a warm and toasty 18 degrees! While it was still Very Cold, I took this photo of the river with the fog moving down it just before sunset. It seemed worth sharing. Labels: Life in Kenai. Posted by The Tundra PA at 5:19 PM. Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:11:00 AM. Links to this post:. Christmas Eve Moose Visitation. A Bit of Americana. The View from my Deck.

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Tundra Medicine Dreams: Eskimo Foods and Botulism

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Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life. Thursday, May 25, 2006. Eskimo Foods and Botulism. Living a subsistence lifestyle i.e., living off the land requires a constant round of seasonal activities directed at acquiring food, heat, shelter and clothing. Most of the people living in villages, and quite a few living in Bethel, are doing exactly that. It is a constant procession of hard work with very few days off. The Kings are followed by Reds (Sockeye), Chum (Dog), Humpies (Pink), and Silvers (Coho)&...

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Tundra Medicine Dreams: Redoubt Ready to Blow

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Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life. Friday, January 30, 2009. Redoubt Ready to Blow. Alaska is once again making the national news. If she blows, I'll do my best to get photos. Labels: Life in Kenai. Posted by The Tundra PA at 9:15 AM. I was in high school when Redoubt erupted and I vividly remember the blanket of ash over Anchorage. Cant believe it was so long ago! Monday, February 02, 2009 6:47:00 AM. Links to this post:. Dog Mushing Season In Full Swing. Christmas Eve Moose Visitation. Musing...

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Tundra Medicine Dreams: The Arctic Adventure

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Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life. Thursday, April 03, 2008. Dutch and I are going to the Arctic! We leave tomorrow for a week-long dog mushing expedition into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with our friends, Champion dog mushers Aliy Zirkle. And her husband Allen Moore. This trip has been planned and in the making for about six months, and after so many weeks of anticipation, it is finally here. I told her about the ANWR expeditions and she said Oh yes, let’s do that! They are so well con...

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Tundra Medicine Dreams: Back to Work

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Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life. Saturday, February 07, 2009. After four and a half months off work the longest non-working period in my adult life I was afraid I had forgotten all the medicine I ever knew. Fortunately, such was not the case. I started working again in mid January, and everything has gone smoothly, with the help of several dedicated people in Bethel. The telemedicine carts in each village clinic have been replaced this past month with the absolutely latest and best that techn...

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Tundra Medicine Dreams: Practicing Bush Medicine

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Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life. Sunday, December 17, 2006. RMT), which I have described previously. The primary question to be addressed for each patient through RMT is whether that patient needs to come to the hospital in Bethel or can be observed and treated in the village. Many times that question is not easy to answer. The first consideration is always: how sick is the patient? Pre-term labor, they may deliver a baby before the plane arrives. For patients who are less acutely ill or inju...