My Father, Owen James

Stories and adventures with my father

Harvesting with Uncle Owen

I remember me and Uncle Owen went out seal hunting at Sisters Island one day. We went to Sisters and to the Inian Islands to gather seagull eggs. Uncle Owen and Gordon [Greenwald] told me that if I drank a raw gull egg, I would have the strength of the Chookaneidi.

Sam Sheakley

Dad teaching my cousin Sam how to skin and butcher a harbor seal.

Read more about my father and Gordon Greenwald taking cousin Sam and friend Randy Roberts to the Inian Islands with conservationist and US Forest Service volunteer Adam Andis:

https://www.azandisresearch.com/2022/02/19/stories-of-subsistence-in-wilderness-inian-islands/?fbclid=IwAR23medI1tFigBCg6y20tAusjytPozuJbcdgxttvXreU47c4O9y8U04xb-Q