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Salmon Welcoming

Each year, salmonids arrive at many different locations throughout the North Vancouver School District.

The salmon are welcomed following local Indigenous process and protocol, with song, cedar and stream water. Latash, Maurice Nahanee, created The Salmon Song, which has been gifted to the NVSD schools to use. You can hear Latash sharing The Legend of the Salmon People in this video.

In this video, Swalklanexw, Dallas Guss, sings The Salmon Song created by Latash, Maurice Nahanee.

Recommended Reading

  • Dipnetting with Dad by Willie Sellars
  • From the Mountains to the Sea, We are a Community by Brenda Boreham and Terri Mack
  • Gift of the Salmon by Bill Helin
  • Salmon to Share by Terri Mack
  • The Salmon Run by Clayton Gauthier
  • The Sockeye Mother by Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Hudson)