• Home
• First Nations Gifts
• Learning Environment / Toys
• Books
• Publishing
• More Info
• Contact Us

• Coast Salish

First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim

Authors:

● Various Indigenous Peoples (Indigenous;)

Editors:

● Judith Roche

Language:

English

Format: Paperback

Text Content Territories: Indigenous American; Native American; Makah; Salish; Interior Salish; Spokane; Tenino (Warm Springs); Indigenous Canadian; First Nations; Salish; Coast Salish; Interior Salish; Syilx (Okanagan); Indigenous Japanese; Ainu (Aynu); Indigenous Siberian; Nivkh; Ulchi;

Status: In Print

Other Categories: Books, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Canadians, First Nations, Salish, Coast Salish, Interior Salish, Syilx (Okanagan), Indigenous Peoples of Europe, Indigenous Peoples of Japan, Ainu (Aynu), Indigenous Peoples of Siberia, Nivkh (Nyvkh), Ulchi, Indigenous Peoples of the United States, Native American, Makah, Salish, Interior Salish, Spokane, Tenino (Warm Springs), Multicultural Books, Stories from Japan, Stories from Siberia, Stories from the United States

Year Published: 1998

Synopsis:

First Fish, First People brings together writers from two continents and four countries whose traditional cultures are based on Pacific wild salmon: Ainu from Japan; Ulchi and Nyvkh from Siberia; Okanagan and Coast Salish from Canada; and Makah, Warm Springs, and Spokane from the United States remember the blessedness and mourn the loss of the wild salmon while alerting us to current environmental dangers and conditions. The text is enhanced by traditional designs from each nation and photographs, both contemporary and historical, as well as personal family pictures from the writers. Together, words and images offer a prayer that our precious remaining wild salmon will increase and flourish.

Educator Information

Contents
Sherman Alexie

The Powwow at the End of the World

That Place Where Ghosts of salmon Jump

Shigeru Kayano (translated by Jane Corddry Langill with Rie Taki)

Traditional Ainu Life: Living Off the Interest

Kamuy Yukar: Song of the Wife of Okikurmi

My Village Painted on the Face of the Sky

Shiro Kayano (translated by Jane Corddry Langill with Rie Taki)

Who Owns the Salmon?

Gloria Bird

Images of Salmon and You Kettle Falls on the Columbia, Circa 1937 Illusions

Mieko Chikappu (translated by Jane Corddry Langill with Rie Taki)

Salmon Coming Home in Search of Sacred Bliss

Elizabeth Woody

Tradition with a Big "T"

TWANAT, to follow behind the ancestors

Conversion

Nadyezhda Duvan (as told to and translated by Jan Van Ysslestyne)

The Ulchi World View

Temu - The God of the Waters and the Ritual to the Salmon

Ulchi Clan Creation Myths

The Anga Clan Legend

The Salmon Spirit

Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Five Slices of Salmon

1 Introduction

2 Trolling

3 Dryfish Camp

4 Raven, King Salmon and the Birds

5 How to Make Good Baked Salmon from the River (6. Salmon Egg Puller - $2.15 an Hour)

Ito Oda with Tomo Matsui (translated by Jane Corddry Langill with Rie Taki)

Travelling by Dugout on the Chitose River and Sending the Salmon Spirits Home: memoir of an Ainu Woman

Sandra Osawa

The Makah Indians

The Politics of Taking Fish

Vladimir M. Sangi (translated by Valerie Ajaja)

The Nyvkhs At the Source

Lee Maracle

Where Love Winds Itself Around Desire

Jeannette C. Armstrong

Unclean Tides: An Essay on Salmon and Relations

Shigeru Kayano (translated by Jane Corddry Langill with Rie Taki)

The Fox's Plea: An Ainu Fable

Additional Information
204 pages | 6.00" x 9.00" | 72 b&w illustrations