“A wound to the soul”: a First Nation built its culture around salmon. Now they gotta fly it in the freeze
IEach year in late summer, when the mountain buckwheat turns yellow and the soapberries turn soft and translucent, families from the Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation gather at the mouth of Tatchun Creek to fish for their namesake. The creek itself, in Canada’s vast Yukon Territory, is named after the fin on a salmon’s back …