The Salmons Call Trailer

The Salmons Call Trailer - official movie trailer HD

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00:00Growing up I never thought that we would have to worry about not having salmon.

00:12It was just natural to think that we would always have our traditional foods.

00:30My name is Joy Haskell. I am Dakath from the Gran Tun clan.

00:42And this is my res, Tachay, which is located in Northern British Columbia.

00:49I love salmon and they have been a big part of my life.

00:54Salmon have been of the utmost importance to the existence of Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.

01:05The voice of the salmon for me is just that renewal.

01:08Every single year, you hear it in the wind, you hear it in the water.

01:14The water gets wild out there when they're trying to protect their salmon.

01:20We all share a similar story of salmon because we come from salmon. We're salmon people.

01:29Salmon is so powerful and so sacred to Dakash people that we don't even have a salmon clan crest because it's too powerful.

01:41It's incredible that they remember exactly where they came from.

01:44It's like us. We should never forget where we come from.

01:47Colonialism has interrupted our families, our connections to the land, all of that.

01:56This is my finished product, something that was passed on to me by my grandmother.

02:01I see salmon and I really feel something.

02:04It's a lot of work. You go out there and you set net and you come back with only two fish.

02:09We used to catch a hundred.

02:11It's a tradition that I absolutely will never let go.

02:15Treasure every moment we have.

02:17Oh, yummy fish eggs.

02:19Blessings to the food and to the cooks and to the beings that gave themselves up to nourish us.

02:27Wild salmon are a keystone species and are important to everyone.

02:34They deserve our respect.

02:38The salmon don't have a voice.

02:40We are their voice.

02:43We are their voice.

02:44We are their voice.

02:45We are their voice.