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Community Events
AITRC’s community events bring people together to learn, share knowledge, and strengthen connections to land, water, and one another across Ahtna Territory. Through workshops, camps, public talks, and hands-on activities, our events create welcoming spaces for community members of all ages to engage in stewardship, subsistence, and natural resource education.
Share What You Know.
Help Grow the Next Generation!
AITRC invites Elders, harvesters, educators, and community knowledge holders to share their knowledge with youth and community members. Whether your skills come from time on the land, years of teaching, subsistence practices, or lived experience, your knowledge plays a vital role in keeping traditions, skills, and stewardship practices alive.
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By sharing what you know through workshops, demonstrations, or hands-on activities, you help strengthen community connections, support learning across generations, and guide the next generation of Ahtna stewards.
If you are interested in AITRC hosting a workshop to share your skills, please fill out the form below or reach out to bailey@ahtnatribal.org
Is there a workshop you’d like to see from AITRC in the future?
AITRC’s community events and workshops are guided by community interest and local priorities. If there’s a topic, skill, or activity you’d like us to host—from subsistence practices and land-based skills to natural resource education or youth-focused learning—we want to hear from you.
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Your ideas help shape future programming and ensure our events reflect what matters most to our communities
To suggest a workshop or share an idea, please fill out the form below or reach out to bailey@ahtnatribal.org
Previous Events.
Want to see one of these workshops again? Let us know!
Salmon Smoking and Canning Workshops.
AITRC’s Salmon Smoking and Canning Workshop brings community members together to learn practical skills for preserving salmon through smoking and canning. Participants gain hands-on experience while learning safe food preservation techniques, sharing knowledge, and strengthening connections to subsistence traditions.
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This workshop supports food security, self-sufficiency, and the passing on of skills that have long sustained our communities. Open to all skill levels, it’s an opportunity to learn, practice, and preserve salmon for the seasons ahead.
Learning how to strip your salmon to hang
Hanging salmon to smoke
Learning how to jar your salmon in a pressure cooker
Trapping Workshops.
AITRC’s Trapping Workshops provide hands-on instruction in responsible trapping practices, equipment use, and land-based skills rooted in subsistence and stewardship. Participants learn from experienced trappers while building practical knowledge about safety, ethics, and respect for wildlife.
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These workshops support the passing on of traditional skills, promote self-sufficiency, and strengthen connections to the land across Ahtna Territory. Open to all experience levels, trapping workshops create opportunities for learning, mentorship, and community knowledge sharing.
How to use a hot bath to clean your traps
Hands-on outdoor practice setting traps
How to skin an animal
Drone Training.
AITRC hosted a Drone Mapping training that introduced participants to the fundamentals of drone technology and its applications beyond aerial photography. Through hands-on instruction, participants learned mission planning, data collection, and data processing, with real-world applications in natural resource management, environmental monitoring, and mapping.
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The training highlighted how drone technology is transforming mapping—making it faster, more accurate, and more accessible—while building local technical skills and supporting stewardship across Ahtna Territory. This workshop provided participants with practical experience and exposure to emerging digital tools used in environmental and resource-based fields.
In class lesson on drone mapping
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Gaining practice experience
Getting to put our training to the test
Berry Preservation.
AITRC's Berry Preservation Workshop brought community members together to learn hands-on techniques. Participants practiced methods such as boiling, jarring, and making jams while learning about safe food handling and long-term storage.
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The workshop supported the sharing of knowledge around seasonal harvesting, food security, and self-sufficiency, while strengthening connections to land-based practices across Ahtna Territory. Open to all experience levels, the event emphasized learning by doing and the importance of passing on preservation skills to future generations.
Learning how to boil down the berries
Berries!
Filling the jars