![]() Newtok has a population of approximately of 375 ethnically Yupik people and was established along the shores of the Ninglick River, near where the river empties into the Bering Sea, by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 1959. washes freshly caught salmon with his son, Jeremiah John, while waiting for the tide. These indigenous populations, hoping for future bountiful spawns, recognized the dependent ecological systems of the fish and used religious ceremony as a way to honor and support environmental practices that encouraged its replenishment. Naturally its first link to humanity came through native inhabitants, who relied on salmon for both sustenance as well as animist-based spiritual worship. ![]() Salmon fishing first became an essential element of the human narrative over 11,500 years ago, with some believing that salmon fishing sites along the Columbia River represent the longest continual human habitation in America. ![]() I’m not sure how much people think about that but it’s subliminally there as a connection to our deep past and nature in general.” If wild salmon are suddenly off the menu then that connection is severed. It’s one of our last connections to our ancestral identity as hunter gatherers. ![]() "Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table" by Langdon Cook (Photo Credit: Penguin. ![]()
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