Eating smoked salmon reminds us of so many people we love. Salmon Sustenance: There are thousands of ways to prepare and eat salmon. Our creative lives are most certainly inspired by salmon. We dangle salmon earrings, fill salmon skin wallets and wear salmon on our T-shirts and hats. Abalone buttoned salmon dance at Celebration and attend board meetings. Salmon are tattooed on our calves and etched in silver bracelets round our wrists.

On Prince of Wales Island, a recently raised totem pole, the Sakteenedi Honor Totem Pole, is a tribute to the uncles of the dog salmon clan. They swish up totem poles and across our dance masks. Salmon swim through airports and splash color across school walls. Home is where the salmon are.Īrtistic Salmon: Salmon are inspiring.

We dance and sing these returns, whether they are people, salmon, or a clan hat. Our sacred objects return, too, to their rightful place from deep within a museum drawer or a collector’s wall. We return home from college, or back home after being treated for cancer in the city, or perhaps we’ve come back from living in other places, sometimes bearing gifts, or carrying our broken hearts home with us. Scientists say that salmon have a better sense of smell than bears or even our dogs - salmon can smell their home streams and rivers. A Salmon Home: To have salmon gratitude is to appreciate a sense of home.

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