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While other backyard traditions such as home dairies and pig-keeping have diminished, the backyard chook has stood the test of time.

“Go ’way, Chook!” he cried, but Buck refused to budge.

Every Christmas Day, Mrs. Joe replied, as she now replied, “O, Un—cle Pum-ble—chook! This is kind!”

Another popular item is roasted chicken, known in Australia as a “hot chook.”

“It is bleak, but I want to have hope that with dam removal and with all the prayers that we’ve been sending up all these years, salmon could come back. If we just give them a chance, they will,” said Chook Chook Hillman, a Karuk tribal member who’s been fighting for the dam removal for years.