Salmon for Survival

Identifier

1.00025

Title

Salmon for Survival

Scope and contents

Item is a photograph of a man standing beside a large sign with the words, "Salmon for Survival." Caption in Nesika vol. 3, no. 9 (September 1974): SALMON FOR SURVIVAL sign now sits in the front yard of Gordon Elliott's home on the Cowichan reserve near Duncan. Last year at his time the sign marked out an old. barn near the Cowichan river that was the location of the well publicized Cowichan Fish-In demonstration. Elliot, who was one of the main organizers, maintains that very little has changed in the band's food fishing situation since the protest.

Date

1974

Spatial Coverage

Cowichan Valley (B.C.)

Subject

Salmon for Survival

Fishing rights--British Columbia

Context

In August 1973, a weeklong fishing protest was staged to backup demands for the rights of the Cowichan Band to hunt and fish for food unrestricted on their own land. Despite years of delays and lack of support for the protest from the Cowichan Band Council, a camp was eventually prepared in Cowichan Valley consisting of mostly young First Nation peoples. The demonstration lasted three days and rounded off with a salmon barbeque held in front of an old horse barn that had worked as the demonstrator's headquarters. This sign still sat in the front yard of Gordon Elliott's home on the Cowichan reserve a year later.

Physical description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm

Related materials

Related article appeared on page 1 of Nesika vol. 3, no. 9 (September 1974). Image appeared in Nesika, caption reads "SALMON FOR SURVIVAL sign now sits in the front yard of Gordon Elliott's home on the Cowichan reserve near Duncan. Last year at his time the sign marked out an old. barn near the Cowichan river that was the location of the well publicized Cowichan Fish-In demonstration. Elliot, who was one of the main organizers, maintains that very little has changed in the band's food fishing situation since the protest."

Statement of Responsibility

McKevitt, G. (photographer)

Rights

Rights Holder

Copyright held by Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs

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General notes

Title based on contents of the image

Date is probable

Last Modified

September 16, 2024