Provoking question: How did salmon become one of the most popular seafood sources in the United States? What does it signify (spiritually, physically)? What does it mean to be healthy?
Essay forthcoming
Food
Cutcha Risling Baldy, “Why We Fish: Decolonizing Salmon Rhetorics and Governance,” in Native American Rhetoric (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2021), 165–93.
Coté, Charlotte. “Cu̓umaʕas: The River That Runs through Us, the Communal Fish Pot.” In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast, 56–86. University of Washington Press, 2022.
Spirituality
Cutcha Risling Baldy, “Why We Fish: Decolonizing Salmon Rhetorics and Governance,” in Native American Rhetoric (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2021), 165–93.
Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, “Of Coyotes and Culverts: Salmon and the People of the Mid-Columbia River,” in Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods (SUNY Press, 2021).
Lissa K. Wadewitz, The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (2012). Specifically, chapter 2 “Fish, Fur, and Faith” (30-51).
Land
Cutcha Risling Baldy, “Why We Fish: Decolonizing Salmon Rhetorics and Governance,” in Native American Rhetoric (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2021), 165–93.
Zoe Todd, “Refracting the State Through Human-Fish Relations: Fishing, Indigenous Legal Orders, and Colonialism in North/Western Canada,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society 7, 1 (2018): 60-75.
Charles Wilkins, Messages from Frank’s Landing: a Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006).
Charles Wilkins, Treaty Justice: The Northwest tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024).
Lissa Wadewitz’s chapters 3 and 4: “Remaking Native Space” (52-88) and “Fishing the Line: Border Bandits and Labor Unrest” (89-121).
