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'It's time to bring them back': Tribes' canoe journey calls attention to loss of salmon, legacy of residential schools | The Spokesman-Review
'It's time to bring them back': Tribes' canoe journey calls attention to loss of salmon, legacy of residential schools | The Spokesman-Review
“It’s important to reconnect to the water, the land, the elders, but also to call the salmon home,” said Peone, who organizes the Spokane tribe’s canoe and often serves as its skipper. “But we need a good, clean home for the salmon to come home to.” The tribes have been making strides toward that goal. Late last year, Colville tribal biologists observed the first spawning chinook salmon in the Upper Columbia river system in a generation. This spring, Spokane tribal biologists found a newly hatched salmon in Tshimakain Creek, also spelled Chamokane Creek, on the eastern edge of the Spokane Indian Reservation.
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'It's time to bring them back': Tribes' canoe journey calls attention to loss of salmon, legacy of residential schools | The Spokesman-Review