Monthly Film Series: “Covenant of the Salmon People”
Organizer: Dungeness River Nature Center
Organizer Email: info@DungenessRiverCenter.org
Organizer Phone: 360-681-4076
Organizer Website: https://DungenessRiverCenter.org/
See a new documentary & enjoy salmon chowder at the River Center
Covenant of the Salmon People
Screening Thurs., Oct. 26
5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.
Rainshadow Hall
$10 per person
Registration required! Please click here to reserve your spot
The Nez Perce is the oldest documented civilization in North America, with archaeological sites along Idaho’s Salmon River dating back 16,500 years.
The cornerstone of their creation story is an agreement with salmon to protect its continued existence.
Produced in collaboration with the Nez Perce Tribe, “Covenant of the Salmon People” is a feature-length documentary portrait of the Nez Perce exploring how their relationship to salmon has shaped the Tribe’s culture, history and spirituality.
As dams and climate impacts threaten to bring salmon (and the animals that eat them, such as orcas) to extinction, we trace the Nez Perce efforts to honor their ancient agreement.
Have a cup of delicious creamy salmon chowder (made with potatoes, onions, celery, bacon, salmon, and cream) with a hunk of warm sourdough bread and butter. Sit back and watch an advance screening of this unreleased, scenic and informative film on the miracle of the salmon return from the sea to the rivers they are born in.
Marc Sullivan, Save Our Wild Salmon, will be available for questions after the screening.
The River Center monthly Film Series is a collaboration between the River Center and the award-winning Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Library.