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The salmon are coming home: Historic return to the Columbia River

Apply Now! Salmon Warriors Gathering: Oct 15-19, 2025

Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day

The Salmon Are Coming Home: Read Our 2024-2025 Annual Report

Gathering to witness for salmon

Season's Greetings — let peace flow with the river

Salmon Warriors 2024: Investing in the Future

Investing in Indigenous-led salmon reintroduction

APPLY NOW: SALMON WARRIORS GATHERING October 16-20, 2024

Sockeye Salmon Trio - After travelling almost five hundred kilometers these Sockeye Salmon have finally reached their spawning grounds.

Important Information for Anglers on the upper Columbia River and Arrow Lakes

Mainstage area, Transboundary Tour Launch, 25 May, 2024. Photo by T. Marshall.

Bringing the Salmon Home on Indigenous Peoples Day 2024

Hoop dancers. Credit: Jeremy Williams

Launched! Bringing the Salmon Home Transboundary Tour

Sockeye Salmon Trio - After travelling almost five hundred kilometers these Sockeye Salmon have finally reached their spawning grounds.

It takes a river of people to bring the salmon home

Bringing the Salmon Home Transboundary Tour Launch Poster - May, 24-25, 2024.

The Bringing the Salmon Home Transboundary Tour launches May 24 & 25!

500 Nation members watching the documentary film Bringing the Salmon Home at the recent Secwépemc Winter Gathering at Splatsin

Long-hidden story draws acclaim and major audiences

Image of Chinook salmon underwater, photo credit: Eiko Jones

Join us for dinner and a screening of our new documentary!

Group of people in front of river holding drums who attended the Road Map Visioning Forum, in Castlegar 2023

Check out our new technical studies — and our 2023 highlights!

Bringing the Salmon Home film poster with image of salmon swimming underwater. It takes River of People to bring the salmon home.

See Bringing the Salmon Home on the big screen!

Image of group of people standing at the river's edge. 1 person is tossing salmon into the river. Returning salmon remains to the rive. Photo by Katie Wong

Bringing the Salmon Home Indigenous Knowledge Statement

Young adults from the Syilx Okanagan, Secwépemc, and Ktunaxa Nations gathered with Elders, knowledge keepers, and Nation leaders as part of the generational work of the Bringing the Salmon Home Initiative. This collaborative project is led by the three Nations.

Celebrating the 2023 Salmon Warriors

Bringing the Salmon Home on Indigenous Peoples Day 2023

WATCH NOW! Bringing the Salmon Home Festival 2023

Call to Syilx Okanagan Nation members: Outreach & Engagement Organizer contract opportunity

The Bringing the Salmon Home Festival is almost here!

Watch now! Salmon Warriors video

Request for Caterer Bids

APPLY NOW! Salmon Warriors Gathering 2023

OPEN CALL FOR NATION ARTISTS

Reflecting on 2022

Watch now! Free webinar recording

You're invited! Free online webinar with Indigenous Knowledge Counsel and Youth Salmon Warriors

Youth Salmon Warriors Statement

Call to anglers to identify chinook salmon they encounter

Celebrating Youth Salmon Warriors Gathering 2022

Join the Syilx Okanagan Nation Salmon Feast, September 16-18, 2022!

You're Invited to the Shuswap Band Salmon Festival!

Salmon Warriors Youth Gathering Aug 19-23, 2022

Indigenous Peoples Day ~ Salmon Peoples Day

See all Bringing the Salmon Home Festival events now!

Register now! Bringing the Salmon Home Festival May 3-4, 2022

Announcement! The Bringing the Salmon Home Festival is May 3-4, 2022. Save the date!

It takes a river of people to bring the salmon home (E-News, 11 Feb 2022)

Preparing the way to bring the salmon home (E-News, 17 Dec '21)

Strengthening relationships to bring the salmon home (E-News, 8 Dec 2021)

Like ripples in the water: expanding circles of engagement

Our stewardship of water & salmon is a matter of truth & reconciliation (E-News, 10 Nov 2021)

Bringing the salmon home is a growing team effort

Generational legacy (E-News 21 Oct 2021)

Show your support for people & salmon along the Columbia River

Attn Syilx Okanagan Nation members: Bringing the Salmon Home Outreach & Engagement Coordinator opportunity

Commemorating National Indigenous Peoples Day June 21, 2021

Honouring and mourning the children who perished at Kamloops Indian Residential School

We made a great splash at the Bringing the Salmon Home Festival!

You're Invited! Bringing the Salmon Home Festival May 10-16, 2021

Bringing the Salmon Home Festival ~ Save the date!
May 10-16, 2021

ONA ceremonial release of salmon fry

Syilx Okanagan Nation's ‘Fish in Schools’ program

inook in San Poil River, video screen shot by Colville Tribal Fish and Wildlife

Salmon spawn above Grand Coulee Dam for first time in 80 years

Sockeye spawning 2020

Record number of sockeye return to Okanagan system