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Waxman Staff Writer Sep 3, 2015 2:48 PM UTC As part of a three-day trip to Alaska to promote climate change initiatives, President Obama visited Dillingham Middle School Wednesday and performed with youngsters who were doing a Yup’ik dance in traditional headdresses decorated with jewels and fur. “I’ve been practicing,” he told the crowd. Also during his time in the fishing village, he gamely sampled salmon jerky — calling it “really good” — and laughed when a salmon spawned on his shoes, prompting him to joke that the fish was “happy to see me.” The other part of his trip that created a buzz on Twitter was the video he filmed with a selfie stick at Kenai Fjords National Park on Tuesday: > [](https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/639133612810485760) ## Transcript *** NO DICTATION *** ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4021398/barack-obama-alaska-dancers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4021398/barack-obama-alaska-dancers/"},"headline":"Watch Barack Obama Attempt a Native Alaskan Dance","datePublished":"2015-09-03T14:48:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-05T08:31:52.583Z","description":"Surrounded by a group of cute students","url":"https://time.com/4021398/barack-obama-alaska-dancers/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d340c1b29ea8cef/698862240a4a22ed7d9c5ed5/gettyimages-486244718.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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