>How did HG store their dried salmon? I have some in freezer bags in my
>fridge and I think it may be going rancid.
they were storing it in cedar boxes and i don't think they mind the rancid
taste when you see that they were doing a huge consomption of eulachon oil
that necessarely was getting rancid ( the process involved letting rot the
fish in a pit for 10 days to 3 weeks,  then rendering in a big canoe with
hot stones, and it was store for the year supply in cedar box.. Twelves
canoe loads of eulachon fish gave one canoe of crude oil that end up to 5 to
6 gallons of rendered oil, stored in "dry kelp bottles" packed in cedar box
and eaten by the spoonfull every day.
dry fish, roasted roots and many other foods were dip in the oil in
individual bowl. dried berries were stored in the grease too.
I will be interested to know more about the toxicity of rancid oil when i
know that the natives here were making a huge feast of it.
<The late Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano once declared the oil " good
medecine" when it was two weeks old it had a mild flavor,at one month it was
strong, at two months it was very strong.>
 And they were fishing the Eulachon in the spring for the year supply. This
oil was traded  with the interiors tribes over the high montains and great
distances. as valuable it was considered.
my information comes from " indian fishing " by hilary Steward ( early
methods on the north west coast)
jean-claude