Indigenous salmon art

"Salmon Homecoming" by Susan Point (Coast Salish).

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Illustration about Mythological image art style salmon. Illustration of painting, pacific, culture - 11204032

A drawing I made during my MA to tell the story of the sockeye salmon. The sockeye salmon as a key stone species, illustrating how the fish creates an ecosystem of reliance, from bears eating the salmon and leaving parts of the body which nourish and fertilise the riparian zone, to orcas and sea otters relying on the salmon as a food source. Salmon structure and balance ecosystems, that is why it is important to protect them from overfishing, salmon farms which create parasites that can…

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Hello lovers, friends, fans and foe, I hope all is well in your world, things are going according to plan in mine, whatever plan that may be, i'm trying to be open and receptive to the universe and the directions it has for me. go with the flow i guess i'm saying, but don't be afraid to guide your direction as needed. here are some photos for various projects i'm working on. i think the one with the girl and the steelhead is pretty funny, because she doesn't look like a fishing fanatic…

The indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast are salmon people. Each species of salmon, with its seasonal order of appearance dictated human activities, and indeed, their wealth. Historically, the sea’s bounty was so great and easily harvested, that the Northwest Coast had one of the densest non-agricultural populations on earth. This resource freed time to develop a highly complex culture. This is a formline depiction of a spawning female and male Oncorynchus tshawytscha, known commonly…

Salmon-Glen Rabena, NW Coast Native Artist

For the first time in 38 years, American Indians on Oregon's Columbia River have harvested a surplus of summer chinook salmon.