After four days of fish passing, the First Salmon is ritually taken and honored

Evidence

The fish course by the camp in great throngs, unmolested as they make their way upstream. Only after four days of fish have moved safely by is the First Salmon taken by the most honored fisher and prepared with ritual care. It is carried to the feast in great ceremony on a cedar plank in a bed of ferns. And then they feast on the sacred foods— salmon, venison, roots, and berries—in sequence for their places in the watershed. They celebrate the water that connects them all in a ritual passing of the cup. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 880

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: A concrete, citable instance of a take-with-consent harvest ethic for integrative writing on land-rights and Indigenous harvest law.
• XREF: connects to: The first salmon run passes unmolested before any fish is taken — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 879; Salmon fishery crews fuse ceremonial tradition and biological monitoring into one practice — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 927

Broader Connections

• Salmon fishery crews fuse ceremonial tradition and biological monitoring into one practice #expands (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 927