Shiako Kondo, a Japanese exchange student, sits in the bow of the boat while holding the trees recently cut for part of the fish-wheel.

The youth of the village, ranging from 16 to 28 take time out of their day to create a fish-wheel, a device that Athabaskan Native Americans have been using to catch king salmon for centuries.

An elder of the village of Nikolai hammers in a nail to the fishwheel while the kids are taking a break from hours of working. "I have been making [fishwheels] for a long time." he said. "I feel like I should help."

Tom Roberts looks down the river while his peers tie the edges of the fish-wheel to poles on land Nikolai, Alaska. After some nails loosened, the kids had to reconstruct the raft which the fish-wheel rests on. It has pushed them back by two days.&nb

Shiaki Kondo and Scott Petruska push a log in order to set up the raft on which the fishwheel will sit on.

Shiaki Kondo helps hold up a pole that will support the fishwheel while an elder hammers it into the raft in the Upper Kuskokwim River in Nikolai, Alaska.

A boat sits on the edges of the Upper Kuskokwim river in Nikolai, Alaska.The youth have been using boats to gather wood from the other side of the river to construct the fish-wheel. It is the first fish-wheel the village has seen in ten years.

After nearly completing the raft, Shiaki Kondo and Tom Roberts watch as their peers hammer in the last of the nails to the fish-wheel in Nikolai, Alaska. The fish, primarily king salmon, that will be caught in the fish-wheel will be shared among the

Keeping Tradition

Shiako Kondo, a Japanese exchange student, sits in the bow of the boat while holding the trees recently cut for part of the fish-wheel.

The youth of the village, ranging from 16 to 28 take time out of their day to create a fish-wheel, a device that Athabaskan Native Americans have been using to catch king salmon for centuries.

An elder of the village of Nikolai hammers in a nail to the fishwheel while the kids are taking a break from hours of working. "I have been making [fishwheels] for a long time." he said. "I feel like I should help."

Tom Roberts looks down the river while his peers tie the edges of the fish-wheel to poles on land Nikolai, Alaska. After some nails loosened, the kids had to reconstruct the raft which the fish-wheel rests on. It has pushed them back by two days.

Shiaki Kondo and Scott Petruska push a log in order to set up the raft on which the fishwheel will sit on.

Shiaki Kondo helps hold up a pole that will support the fishwheel while an elder hammers it into the raft in the Upper Kuskokwim River in Nikolai, Alaska.

A boat sits on the edges of the Upper Kuskokwim river in Nikolai, Alaska.The youth have been using boats to gather wood from the other side of the river to construct the fish-wheel. It is the first fish-wheel the village has seen in ten years.

After nearly completing the raft, Shiaki Kondo and Tom Roberts watch as their peers hammer in the last of the nails to the fish-wheel in Nikolai, Alaska. The fish, primarily king salmon, that will be caught in the fish-wheel will be shared among the community.

Keeping Tradition

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