The Salmon People

Author : Hugh W McKervill
Publisher : Whitecap Books
ISBN 13 : 9781770502086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salmon People written by Hugh W McKervill and published by Whitecap Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salmon People is a masterful history of Canada's west coast. From the first people's tales of salmon to BC's first cannery, to overfishing and the environmental concerns that still exist today, this comprehensive early history is a must-read for anyone interested in how BC's fishing industry reached where it is today. Told from the strong and witty voice of Hugh Wilford McKervill, who once fished alongside the First Nations peoples of Bella Bella, The Salmon People is both an historically accurate account of the fishing industry and a salty buoyant memoir. In the author's own words, "so long as there fish surging from the sea there will be salmon people willing to brave the torments of nature to catch them, and the salmon will probably come forever . . . if man does not destroy them."

Author : Claire Rudolf Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780910055833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prince and the Salmon People written by Claire Rudolf Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different versions of the Salmon People legend have been told for centuries by many tribes of Northwest Coast Indians. Though the tellings may differ in detail from tribe to tribe and era to era, all versions express the Indian belief that animals have spirits and can move freely between animal and human realms, choosing to feed humans when approached with proper respect and ceremony. Claire Rudolf Murphy's thought-provoking tale about the interdependence of humans and animals is based on anthropologist Franz Boas's accounts and on interviews with Tsimshian elders and craftsmen. Acclaimed Northwest Coast artist Duane Pasco enlivens the myth with his striking drawings. Claire Rudolf Murphy is the author of ten books for children including Children of the Gold Rush and Caribou Girl.

Author : Ron Hirschi
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780525651833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People of Salmon and Cedar written by Ron Hirschi and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color illustrations. Black-and-white photos.

Author : Joseph Cone
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466884266
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Common Fate written by Joseph Cone and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though life on earth is the history of dynamic interactions between living things and their surroundings, certain powerful groups would have us believe that nature exists only for our convenience. One consequence of such thinking is the apparent fate of the Pacific salmon--a key resource and preeminent symbol of America's wildlife--which is today threatened with extinction. Drawing on abundant data from natural science, Pacific coast culture, and a long association with key individuals on all sides of the issue, Joseph Cone's A Common Fate employs a clear narrative voice to tell the human and natural history of an environmental crisis in its final chapter. As inevitable as the November rains, countless millions of wild salmon returned from the ocean to spawn in the streams of their birth. In the wake of an orgy of dam building and habitat destruction, the salmon's majestic abundance has been reduced to a fleeting shadow. Neglect is the word the author uses to describe more recent losses, "by exactly the ones--state and federal fish managers--who should have acted." To signal a new awareness that action is needed, scientists charged with restocking the Columbia River Basin are receiving significant support, while ordinary citizens are beginning to recognize the relationship between cheap power and the absences of chinook, coho, sockeye, and other species from the coasts of Oregon and Washington and from Idaho's Snake River. As desperate as the salmon's future appears, the book is not an elegy for a lost resource. Instead, it bears witness to hope. In addition to concrete plans for the wild salmon's renewal, the reader will hear a growing chorus of informed individuals of differing values and beliefs who recognize that our fate is inextricably bound to the salmon's; for many it is a new understanding.

Author : Jeannette C. Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781926886411
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River of Salmon Peoples written by Jeannette C. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The River of the Salmon People captures what the Fraser River, and its most valuable resource, the salmon, means to First Nations communities along its basinches The result of nine community engagements, extensive research over two years, and illuminating photographs and artwork, this book captures the oral narratives of each community along the river. The book, while capturing timeless Indigenous stories and legends about the salmon and the river, is also an exploration of the future of the salmon and of the waters of the Fraser River. It will have high appeal to readers interested in First Nations issues, the sustainability of the salmon, and the environmental challenges facing the world today. The River of the Salmon People is an expression of the people, culture, ceremony and songs along the Fraser of will be of deep interest to both the general reader and students of the environment and Indigenous rights.

Author : Judith Roche
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774806862
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Fish, First People written by Judith Roche and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together writers from two continents and four countries whose traditional cultures are based on Pacific wild salmon. 72 duotone photos. Line drawings. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Kari Marie Norgaard
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813584213
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People written by Kari Marie Norgaard and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made their way up and down the Klamath River. Indigenous management enabled the ecological abundance that formed the basis of capitalist wealth across North America. These activities on the landscape continue today, although they are often the site of intense political struggle. Not only has the magnitude of Native American genocide been of remarkable little sociological focus, the fact that this genocide has been coupled with a reorganization of the natural world represents a substantial theoretical void. Whereas much attention has (rightfully) focused on the structuring of capitalism, racism and patriarchy, few sociologists have attended to the ongoing process of North American colonialism. Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People draws upon nearly two decades of examples and insight from Karuk experiences on the Klamath River to illustrate how the ecological dynamics of settler-colonialism are essential for theorizing gender, race and social power today.

Author : David F. Arnold
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989750
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fishermen's Frontier written by David F. Arnold and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Fishermen's Frontier, David Arnold examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past 250 years. He starts with the aboriginal fishery, in which Native fishers lived in close connection with salmon ecosystems and developed rituals and lifeways that reflected their intimacy. The transformation of the salmon fishery in southeastern Alaska from an aboriginal resource to an industrial commodity has been fraught with historical ironies. Tribal peoples -- usually considered egalitarian and communal in nature -- managed their fisheries with a strict notion of property rights, while Euro-Americans -- so vested in the notion of property and ownership -- established a common-property fishery when they arrived in the late nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, federal conservation officials tried to rationalize the fishery by "improving" upon nature and promoting economic efficiency, but their uncritical embrace of scientific planning and their disregard for local knowledge degraded salmon habitat and encouraged a backlash from small-boat fishermen, who clung to their "irrational" ways. Meanwhile, Indian and white commercial fishermen engaged in identical labors, but established vastly different work cultures and identities based on competing notions of work and nature. Arnold concludes with a sobering analysis of the threats to present-day fishing cultures by forces beyond their control. However, the salmon fishery in southeastern Alaska is still very much alive, entangling salmon, fishermen, industrialists, scientists, and consumers in a living web of biological and human activity that has continued for thousands of years.

Author : Dan Landeen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781881090335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salmon and His People written by Dan Landeen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward C. Wolf
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 9780967636405
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salmon Nation written by Edward C. Wolf and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUTOGRAPHED BY ELIZABETH WOODSY.