Tribal Salmon Restoration and Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest

摘要

Tribes have lived in the Columbia River Basin for over 10,000 years. Long before written history, salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) provided a unifying spiritual and economic force for the tribes. The tribes gathered at sites such as Celilo. Falls on the Columbia River to share in alliance-forging harvests that exist to this day. A Celilo Fish Committee governed the fishery to ensure sharing, religious observances, and restraint in order to assure future salmon runs.