First Nation’s Salmon Legend: Salient Element of Life
First Nation’s people has been a proud producer of salmon in the industry of fisheries even before the Europeans came and colonized Canada, as it is called today. Salmon is not just a source of income and food but also a symbol of life. First Nation people symbolize the fish as a returning relative. According to Elder Ralph Phillips of Xat’sull First Nation, salmon is a one of a kind creature that comes and goes to their life. Considering its richness of nutrients that can be extracted from the fish, they also emphasize its goodness that the fish has given to their life. The herds of the salmon fish reappear in the rivers annually and that is the time where First Nations people gather around …show more content…
It played a significant role to the people specially the Algonquin in the early ages. They used canoes as their way of transportation. For these people, this is where the waters take them to unusual journeys of life. Long time ago, roads and highways were not present so they canoe and travel through waters a lot. Duma from Mi'kmaq said that she really enjoyed those times because she would just watch the shores slowly washing the villages every second. She associated her journey just like a river flowing towards the wide vast of the sea. There might be some difficulties that you will encounter along the narrow space of life, but if you keep swimming till the end, you will get to the wider, calmer end of your journey. Many of the First Nations people have health issues throughout the history. It has been an ongoing debate that this particular issue in our country is caused by direct and indirect discrimination of culture, social and status of living. These disparities among non- Aboriginal and the Aboriginal people rooted way back when the Europeans set foot on their land. In Canada, aboriginal people have the higher rate on being prone to diseases such as food poisoning, malnutrition, high infant fatality and many more (Adelson,
First Nation’s people has been a proud producer of salmon in the industry of fisheries even before the Europeans came and colonized Canada, as it is called today. Salmon is not just a source of income and food but also a symbol of life. First Nation people symbolize the fish as a returning relative. According to Elder Ralph Phillips of Xat’sull First Nation, salmon is a one of a kind creature that comes and goes to their life. Considering its richness of nutrients that can be extracted from the fish, they also emphasize its goodness that the fish has given to their life. The herds of the salmon fish reappear in the rivers annually and that is the time where First Nations people gather around …show more content…
It played a significant role to the people specially the Algonquin in the early ages. They used canoes as their way of transportation. For these people, this is where the waters take them to unusual journeys of life. Long time ago, roads and highways were not present so they canoe and travel through waters a lot. Duma from Mi'kmaq said that she really enjoyed those times because she would just watch the shores slowly washing the villages every second. She associated her journey just like a river flowing towards the wide vast of the sea. There might be some difficulties that you will encounter along the narrow space of life, but if you keep swimming till the end, you will get to the wider, calmer end of your journey. Many of the First Nations people have health issues throughout the history. It has been an ongoing debate that this particular issue in our country is caused by direct and indirect discrimination of culture, social and status of living. These disparities among non- Aboriginal and the Aboriginal people rooted way back when the Europeans set foot on their land. In Canada, aboriginal people have the higher rate on being prone to diseases such as food poisoning, malnutrition, high infant fatality and many more (Adelson,