A warm thank you to everyone who helped make our third online Bringing the Salmon Home Festival such a success!
Please click on the Watch Now links below to see free video recordings for any of this year’s inspiring and informative events. (Links will take you to the event videos on our Facebook page. You do NOT have to sign in to FB – just click through to the video you want to see.)
Opening Welcome: Bringing the Salmon Home Festival 2023
Join leaders of the Syilx Okanagan, Secwépemc and Ktunaxa Nations, federal and provincial representatives, and elders and young people as we celebrate the opening of this year’s online festival with ceremony, song, and inspiring presentations.
Host: Mark Thomas
Join leaders of the Syilx Okanagan, Secwépemc and Ktunaxa Nations, federal and provincial representatives, and elders and young people as we celebrate the opening of this year’s online festival with ceremony, song, and inspiring presentations.
Host: Mark Thomas
Swimming Upstream in a Digital World
What does it really mean to have your online info and activities processed in a ‘cloud’? The world’s largest digital corporations and cryptocurrency operators are drawing Columbia River water and electricity to power massive data centres along its banks. Use of Artificial Intelligence programs may increase energy demands by five times or more. How does this affect the river and salmon? How can Indigenous ways of knowing, and alternate forms of clean energy inform a better path forward?
Host: Troy Hunter
What does it really mean to have your online info and activities processed in a ‘cloud’? The world’s largest digital corporations and cryptocurrency operators are drawing Columbia River water and electricity to power massive data centres along its banks. Use of Artificial Intelligence programs may increase energy demands by five times or more. How does this affect the river and salmon? How can Indigenous ways of knowing, and alternate forms of clean energy inform a better path forward?
Host: Troy Hunter
Celebrating Salmon Warriors
We are here as salmon’s witness.
Our sacred relative has been gone from these waters for too long but even still, their spirit is here because we are here, and we will never stop fighting for their right to come home.
These powerful words are from the Youth Salmon Warriors Statement. Join Salmon Warriors from the Secwépemc, Syilx Okanagan and Ktunaxa Nations for a screening of their short video, and hear their ideas and reflections on bringing the salmon home to the upper Columbia River.
Host: Valerie Michel
We are here as salmon’s witness.
Our sacred relative has been gone from these waters for too long but even still, their spirit is here because we are here, and we will never stop fighting for their right to come home.
These powerful words are from the Youth Salmon Warriors Statement. Join Salmon Warriors from the Secwépemc, Syilx Okanagan and Ktunaxa Nations for a screening of their short video, and hear their ideas and reflections on bringing the salmon home to the upper Columbia River.
Host: Valerie Michel
One River, Salmon People
Salmon have been bringing people together since time immemorial. Indigenous and Tribal elders and knowledge keepers share their insights on respectful intercultural gathering and cross-Nation ways to sustain peaceful relationships. Kettle Falls and Celilo Falls, both now flooded over by Columbia River dams, were two of the greatest salmon harvesting sites in the world, drawing together Indigenous peoples from across the Northwest for thousands of years. It is vital to bring the salmon home for Indigenous ceremony, sustenance, social relations and trade, and to benefit all people and ecosystems in the Columbia River watersheds.
Host: Pauline Terbasket
Salmon have been bringing people together since time immemorial. Indigenous and Tribal elders and knowledge keepers share their insights on respectful intercultural gathering and cross-Nation ways to sustain peaceful relationships. Kettle Falls and Celilo Falls, both now flooded over by Columbia River dams, were two of the greatest salmon harvesting sites in the world, drawing together Indigenous peoples from across the Northwest for thousands of years. It is vital to bring the salmon home for Indigenous ceremony, sustenance, social relations and trade, and to benefit all people and ecosystems in the Columbia River watersheds.
Host: Pauline Terbasket
Indigenous-led Approaches to Salmon Reintroduction
This event includes an overview of our current research studies, the vital contributions US Tribes are making to salmon reintroduction in the Columbia River system, and a short video about Indigenous-led habitat restoration in the Kootenays. Please join members of our Technical Working Group members and US Tribal representatives as they present updates on their latest work to restore salmon and habitat.
Host: Misun Kang
This event includes an overview of our current research studies, the vital contributions US Tribes are making to salmon reintroduction in the Columbia River system, and a short video about Indigenous-led habitat restoration in the Kootenays. Please join members of our Technical Working Group members and US Tribal representatives as they present updates on their latest work to restore salmon and habitat.
Host: Misun Kang
Salmon Dinner & Cultural Sharing
You are invited to make a wild salmon dinner before or during this online gathering and enjoy your meal along with an engaging cultural program of stories, poetry, and music shared by Secwépemc, Syilx Okanagan and Ktunaxa Nation artists. (This has been a favourite event of our past two festivals.) Invite your family and friends near and far to join the feast. Prizes too!
Enjoy adding wild Pacific salmon to your menu, canned, frozen, or smoked. Need some recipe ideas? Here’s a link to the video of our previous Salmon Chef event for inspiration. If you’re in the Okanagan, you can also get premium 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.
You are invited to make a wild salmon dinner before or during this online gathering and enjoy your meal along with an engaging cultural program of stories, poetry, and music shared by Secwépemc, Syilx Okanagan and Ktunaxa Nation artists. (This has been a favourite event of our past two festivals.) Invite your family and friends near and far to join the feast. Prizes too!
Enjoy adding wild Pacific salmon to your menu, canned, frozen, or smoked. Need some recipe ideas? Here’s a link to the video of our previous Salmon Chef event for inspiration. If you’re in the Okanagan, you can also get premium 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.
