Ritual ceremony materially improves salmon survival and ecosystem cycling

Evidence

Likewise, the First Salmon Ceremony, in all its beauty, reverberates through all the domes of the world. The feasts of love and gratitude were not just internal emotional expressions but actually aided the upstream passage of the fish by releasing them from predation for a critical time. Laying salmon bones back in the streams returned nutrients to the system. These are ceremonies of practical reverence. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 905

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the ch58 First Salmon ritual thread; connects to ch59 marine nitrogen story concluding the salmon covenant arc. — connects to: The commodity mindset of canneries and dams drove Pacific salmon near extinction — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 893; Straightening river systems for pasture flushed young salmon prematurely to sea — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 891; Salmon fishery crews fuse ceremonial tradition and biological monitoring into one practice — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 927 (+1 more)
• DEFINE: ‘Ceremonies of practical reverence’ names the concept that Indigenous ritual is simultaneously spiritual and ecologically functional.

Broader Connections

• Salmon fishery crews fuse ceremonial tradition and biological monitoring into one practice #corroborates (0.92) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 927
• Indigenous harvesting practices are environmental factors plants depend on for survival #exemplifies (0.85) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 499