An Alaska pastor has launched a campaign to help an impoverished Aleut village create a new economy by making meat out of the plentiful supply of reindeer that roam its isolated island home.
This undated photo provided by Pat Pletnikoff, shows reindeer traveling on Saint George Island near the village of Saint George, Alaska. ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An Alaska pastor has launched a campaign to help an impoverished Aleut village create a new economy with the plentiful supply of reindeer that roam its isolated island home.
Honan, a Protestant pastor who runs an emergency housing ministry on another island, has started a donation drive for equipment, contacting local businesses to get involved, and has set up a relief fund for Saint George. Donations so far include a portable band saw, a table saw, two sets of butchering knives and $730 to go toward a refrigerated shipping container he envisions serving as the processing plant building.
The U.S. government initially introduced 15 reindeer on the Bering Sea island in 1911 to provide a stable source of meat. In 1980, long after the animals had died off, the village Native corporation, Tanaq, transported another group of reindeer from Umnak Island, about 230 miles south in Alaska's Aleutians.
Pletnikoff said the village is waiting for all the equipment to come through before contacting state officials about the required next steps.Saint George, on an island by the same name, has long struggled to fill the economic vacuum left by the federal government's termination decades ago of the village's once-lucrative fur seal trade. Residents still hunt the seals for subsistence purposes, and the reindeer add to the local diet.
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