This book is a collection of perpectives on salmon from representatives of the peoples around the pacific rim whose lives have centered on salmon for thousands of years. The contributors are talented indigenous writers from the United States, Canada, Japan, and Siberia. The engaging text is amply illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, as well as drawings. The historic photographs are not the same ones that usually appear. For example, nearly every book on salmon in the nortwest has a twentieth century photograph of Indians fishing at Celilo Falls.
Most books use the same photo.
This book uses one that features in the forground the cable system that was used to get down to the fishing platforms, with the fishing platforms themselves in the background. Some of the work in this book has been published elsewhere. But the context it is given here accentuates it in useful ways. But in this book it appears beside a nice photograph of the falls as it appears today, and a photo of Mr. Alexie standing on the footbridge above a section of the falls pointing downstream. Buy it especially for the Sherman Alexie's poem at the beginning.