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Home  >  Events 2022
Bringing the Salmon Home Festival - May 10-16, 2021 Logo

May 3 – 4, 2022

A warm thank you to everyone who helped make our 2022 Bringing the Salmon Home Festival such a success. Over 1000 people registered for our two days of free online events. You can still watch and enjoy these diverse presentations from knowledge keepers, artists, musicians, biologists, elders and youth.

Just click the WATCH NOW link for any event you want to see, below.

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
10:00 am PDT
11:00 am MDT
10:00 am – 11:15 am PDT
11:00 am – 12:15 pm MDT

Source of the River: Opening Welcome

The Bringing the Salmon Home Festival expresses the power of salmon to unite and mobilize our diverse communities to bring salmon back to the upper Columbia River. Drumbeats from within each Nation carry this message, with songs, prayers and stories rippling out from the Columbia’s headwaters to the mouth of the river and beyond. Join leaders of the Syilx Okanagan, Ktunaxa and Secwépemc Nations, federal and provincial representatives, and elders and young people as we celebrate the opening of this year’s festival.

Host: Mark Thomas

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Mark Thomas

Xavier ‘Ox’ Eugene

LaVerna Stevens

Louie Stevens

Kukpi7 Barbara Cote

Hazel Squakim

caylx (Richard Armstrong)

Chief Keith Crow kalʔlùpaɋʹn

Amber Cardenas

Rosalie Yazzie

Rosalie Yazzie

Kathryn Teneese

Marty Williams

Numa Qakin Drummers

Hon. Katrine Conroy

Hon. Joyce Murray

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
1:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm MDT
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm MDT

Research to Reintroduction: Fish Passage Progress

Salmon reintroduction in the upper Columbia River is highly complex. Our collective challenge is to heal a river system that is impacted by hydro-electric dams, habitat disruption, climate change, development and industrial exploitation on both sides of the Canada-USA border. There are 14 large mainstem dams on the river; most dams in the upper Columbia currently lack fish passage. Eighty years of blocked fish passage cannot be repaired overnight or with short-term, conventional or siloed thinking. Learn about how, working across five governments and with counterparts in the US, committed collaboration can lead to innovation, alignment and durable solutions. This event includes a look at the historic distribution of salmon runs in the upper Columbia, an overview of our current research studies, and the vital contributions US Tribes are making to salmon reintroduction.                                                            

Host: Misun Kang  

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Dr. Misun Kang

Bill Green

Richard Bussanich

Rhiannon Kirton

Will Warnock

Elaine Harvey ~ Wanux’ni

Thomas Biladeau

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
6:00 pm PDT
7:00 pm MDT
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm PDT
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm MDT

Salmon Dinner Social

Food always tastes better when shared with friends and family. You are invited to make dinner before this online gathering and then enjoy your meal along with an engaging cultural program of stories, poetry, and music shared by Secwépemc, Syilx Okanagan and Ktunaxa Nation artists. Prizes too!


We encourage you to include wild Pacific salmon in your menu. Here’s a link to the video of our Salmon Chef event last year for recipe inspiration. If you’re in the Okanagan, you can also get Indigenous-caught canned or frozen sockeye salmon from the Syilx Nation’s Okanagan Select store in West Kelowna. See this link for Okanagan Select recipes and info.

Host: Valerie Michel

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Valerie Michel

Chief Atahm School

Krystal Withakay (spaxwawlm)

Samantha Sutherland

Madeline Terbasket

Joe Pierre

Keepers of the Season

Wednesday, May 4, 2022
10:00 am PDT
11:00 am MDT
10:00 am – 12:00 pm PDT
11:00 am – 1:00 pm MDT

Remembering the Way to Bring the Salmon Home

Since time immemorial, Indigenous Nations and Tribes gathered peacefully each year at major fishing sites such as Kettle Falls and Celilo Falls along the Columbia River. Though dammed waters now drown these places, Indigenous peoples still gather along the banks of the river every year to honour the spirit of the salmon and to call them home. Salmon are central to Syilx, Secwépemc, Ktunaxa and US Columbia River Tribal relations’ well-being, culture, spirituality, sustenance, trade and livelihoods. In this session, Indigenous scholars and knowledge keepers discuss the responsibilities and expectations of visitors and respectful ways of upholding cross-Nation and intercultural relations. By working together with greater understanding and respect, we can fulfill our shared responsibilities to the salmon and ensure they return for the generations to come.

Host: Troy Hunter

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Troy D. Hunter

Chris Luke Sr.

Jeanette Jules

xʕayluxalqs ~ Tricia Manuel

DR Michel

Wilbur Slockish, Jr.

Wednesday, May 4, 2022
1:00 pm PDT
2:00 pm MDT
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm PDT
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm MDT

Expressions of Our Relationships with Salmon

This event highlights reconnecting with Indigenous practices, technologies, and value systems in salmon harvesting and food preparation. Specific technologies can include baskets, mats, fish traps, hooks, canoes, drying, and pit cooking.

Host: Pauline Terbasket

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suiki?st Pauline Terbasket

Ed Jensen

Ed Jensen

Lillian Rose

Elsie David

Jonathan Kruger

Wednesday, May 4, 2022
7:00 pm PDT
8:00 pm MDT
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm PDT
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm MDT

Reflections

The persistent vision and commitment of past and current generations continues to motivate the movement to return salmon to the upper Columbia River. It will take decades more of sustained collaborative effort to ensure success. Join us for closing reflections of hope and guidance from Nation leaders, youth, elders and knowledge keepers.

Host: Rosalie Yazzie

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Rosalie Yazzie

Rosalie Yazzie

Marty Williams

Kathryn Teneese

Aiyana Twigg

Kukpi7 Rosanne Casimir

LaVerna Stevens

Louie Stevens

Lincoln Yarama

nk’lxwcin – Chad Eneas

cewel’na ~ Leon Louis

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