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The Salish Sea Trilogy, Part 2: Managed to Extinction
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Managed to Extinction pairs an indigenous visionary and orca scientist, as both work to address the threats facing resident orcas and Chinook salmon. This film directly poses the question, how can indigenous knowledge and current science work together to recover an endangered species?
Scientist Dr. Deborah Giles relies on a scent detection dog to track orca scat in the ocean, which can help to reveal key information about the health and diet of these animals. Resident orcas specialize in hunting salmon, and work by Dr. Giles confirms that they are going hungry. Lummi Nation leader Jay Julius reveals the interconnected ecosystem that has supported his community, including orcas, for millennia, speaking about the cultural and ecological importance of salmon recovery. Together these two inspiring characters invite new perspectives on ecosystem level restoration.
The Salish Sea Trilogy is a series of films exploring the entwined extinction threat facing iconic Southern Resident Killer Whales, and the Chinook salmon they prey on in Pacific Northwest waters. Infused with science and indigenous perspectives, this series invites viewers to imagine how traditional indigenous knowledge and contemporary science might come together to help recover an iconic species.
"This is a truly important and powerful documentary that focuses on the intertwined ecologies and lives of the Southern Resident Orcas, Chinook Salmon, water, land, and human residents of the region. Members of the Lummi Nation and their Orca relations under the waves show the need for Native sovereignty, Ceremony, knowledge, and kinship to be at the forefront of conservation initiatives and environmental policy. This is one of the foremost messages of our time that everyone should hear and be familiar with, and this superb documentary makes it clear. I cannot recommend The Salish Sea Trilogy enough." —Kyle Keeler, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Lafayette College
"The Salish Sea Trilogy is a powerful resource illustrating how the wellbeing of humanity is interwoven with the health of the rivers, salmon, and orcas of the Pacific Northwest. The world was heartbroken when Tahlequah the whale lost her calves and this series urges us to move from grief into action. This intimate look at the legacy of the Lummi Nation and the orcas (the relatives under the waves) shows that it's not too late to save the whales from extinction and highlights the people actively creating hope for the future of the whole ecosystem." —Tierra Curry, Endangered Species Co-Director, Center for Biological Diversity
"Accessible and engaging, this is the powerful story of both the Southern Resident Killer Whales and the people who are working to protect them. The science, history, and cultures surrounding the Southern Residents and their plight is beautifully intertwined with perspectives from researchers, Indigenous leaders and advocates on the past, present and future of these whales. The Salish Sea Trilogy is a fantastic resource for learning more about these whales, the issues they face, and how we can work together for their conservation." —Cindy Elliser, Associate Director, Salish Sea Institute, Western Washington University
"The Salish Sea Trilogy is essential storytelling for anyone who wants to better understand the history of the Pacific Northwest and our deep connectedness with each other and this place we all call home. It tells a story of heartbreaking loss, but also of hopeful opportunity. Salmon, orca, and regional Indigenous leaders are all raising the alarm and urging a new/old way forward. It's time to listen." —Joseph Bogaard, Executive Director, Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition
"This trilogy of films explores the complex challenges facing both the endangered Southern Resident killer whales and their Chinook salmon prey through a solutions-oriented lens, acknowledging the many dimensions of an often contentious story. The Salish Sea Trilogy is both educational and hopeful, highlighting the possibilities for recovery when communities work together." —Misty MacDuffee, Director, Wild Salmon Program, Raincoast Conservation Foundation
"The Salish Sea Trilogy is a moving and powerful film that really struck me, especially having worked with these whales as a naturalist. I love the depth of knowledge it showcases - from Indigenous voices to the scientists who have studied these populations for decades. The beautiful stories and stunning cinematography will spark heartfelt conversations about ecosystem connection, responsibility, and hope for the future." —Sarah Davies, Associate Professor of Biology, Boston University
"This film is an enlightening exploration of the endangered 'people under the waves' of the Pacific Northwest being managed to extinction." —David Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington - Seattle, Author, King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon
"The Salish Sea Trilogy is a moving exploration of the critical but sundered relationships among orcas and people, and on the salmon they depend on. The profound losses of these fish due to damming and other habitat impairments have reverberated with both starving whales and with a diminishment of the salmon-reliant culture of indigenous peoples. Nonetheless, there are rectifications being made that inspire optimism for a return towards a healthier ecosystem." —John Waldman, Professor of Biology, Queens College - CUNY, Author, Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and their Great Fish Migrations
"The Salish Sea Trilogy is a searing portrait of the deeply intertwined relationships between killer whales, their ecology, and their history with human cultures, past and present. The intimate lens on the whales, the committed marine mammal scientists, the ecologists trying to save the rivers that support salmon, and the Lummi peoples shows the value of cultural history and long-term scientific data and provides enriched and engaging educational material for young and old alike." —Janet Mann, Professor of Biology and Psychology, Georgetown University, Author, Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
"The Salish Sea Trilogy is a wonderful introduction to the plight of the charismatic but endangered Southern Resident killer whales. Through this series, viewers will gain an understanding of what makes these whales unique, the research that has contributed to our greater understanding of them, and how our fate is tied to theirs. People of all ages and backgrounds will connect to this story and be inspired by watching these films." —Monika Wieland Shields, Co-founder & Director, Orca Behavior Institute
"This is a wonderful film on the plight of orcas in the Salish Sea. Combining traditional environmental knowledge with scientific environmental knowledge, we see a synergistic path emerge seeking solutions to the ecological crisis we face. The Salish Sea Trilogy is a must see for those who care about our maritime environment and the edification of our children who will be forced to deal with the course of the future." —Daniel Boxberger, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Western Washington University, Author, To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing
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Salish Sea,orcas,whale,whales,killer whale,killer whales,Southern Resident,Ken Balcomb,Pacific Northwest,aquariums,seaquariums,biology,marine biology,environmental science,conservation biology,wildlife,Pacific Ocean,conservation,ecology,indigenous studies,extinction,salmon,chinook salmon,endangered species,food web,habitat loss,environmental policy,Lummi Nation,Lummi,Jay Julius,Deborah Giles; "The Salish Sea Trilogy, Part 1: Call of the Orcas"; Bullfrog Films; "The Salish Sea Trilogy, Part 2: Managed to Extinction"; Bullfrog Films
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[waves lapping]
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My name is Jay Julius,
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and my traditional name is Xw'tot lhem
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in SENĆOŦEN.
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I am a member of the Lummi Nation, I'm a fisherman.
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[gull calling]
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People will refer to my people, Lummis,
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as people who were maybe here a long time ago.
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I've been here my whole life.
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We never left, you may not have seen us on the land,
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but we slept and we fished everywhere out here.
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When I was a child, it felt like everything was alive.
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Now, we all face the same struggle, right?
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The Southern Residents, the salmon,
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the people of the sea, the people of the islands, Lummi,
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we're hungry for what once was.
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[metal rattling]
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Whales have always been my favorite animal,
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and amongst all the whale species,
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killer whales have always been at the top.
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They're just an incredibly interesting
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and easily relatable group of animals.
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The Southern Resident killer whales
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are obligate fish-eaters,
they only eat fish.
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And preferentially,
they eat chinook salmon.
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[water churning]
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You learn a lot when you fish.
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I mean, it's probably my greatest education
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took place on the water.
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[gull cawing]
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I started fishing personally probably...
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I don't know exactly when, but maybe when I was two.
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My relationship with the Salish Sea
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kind of began then with my father and my uncles,
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and that's when my relationship
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with the Southern Residents,
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qwe 'lhol mechen, killer whales, orcas, begin as well.
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We harvested and fished side-by-side.
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[water splashing]
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[audience applauding]
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Jay Julius is a fisherman,
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former chairman and councilperson at Lummi Nation,
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and president of the indigenous-led nonprofit Se'Si'Le.
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Jay was a leader in the successful campaign
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to protect Cherry Point from a proposal
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to build North America's largest coal port there.
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A visionary leader...
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[audience applauding]
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We share a common struggle.
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In just 16-and-a-half decades,
we are where we are
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and we're being managed to extinction through a process,
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and it's us included.
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And killer whales are being managed to extinction,
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salmon and my people, and Chairman Wheeler's people.
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[Chenoa vocalizing in indigenous language]
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What took a thousand years to destroy in Europe,
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a few hundred years on the East Coast
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to drive Atlantic salmon to extinction,
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and everything that is, and now you're sitting in a place
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where it's happening on our watch.
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Even in my short lifetime as a fisherman,
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what was once rich,
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we're trying to get back to '85 numbers right now.
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[Chenoa vocalizing in indigenous language
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The Southern Resident killer whales are one clan,
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one unique population of killer whales
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that occupy the Pacific Northwest,
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and within that clan there's J pod, K pod, and L pod.
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They're all connected genetically,
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and culturally, and linguistically.
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They all speak the same language,
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Knowing them now as individuals
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and as family members, their tight bonds,
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even in the face of starvation,
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they still will share a salmon.
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Salmon of even 70, 80 years ago
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would've been approaching 100 pounds.
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Over the past five or more years,
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the average size of a Chinook salmon in Washington state
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is 12-and-a-half pounds, so when we're talking about
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this large-bodied, long-lived animal that has to eat
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several hundred pounds of food per whale, per day,
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that's a lot of extra foraging that has to happen
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for them to find 10 or 12-pound salmon
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to meet their basic daily caloric needs.
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I think they're asking for our help.
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I've had an opportunity
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to get to know and work with Jay Julius.
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We talk a lot about fish,
we talk a lot about fishing.
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What means everything to your history?
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I'm not sure how to relate this to the world
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because I don't know.
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Other than money, what is everything in your life to you
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that keeps a roof over your head
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and keeps your family connected?
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That's salmon.
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It's just been our everything,
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and we don't wanna let that go.
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We refuse to let that go.
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[gentle piano music]
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Fish on! Fish on! [laughs]
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[Jay exclaiming in excitement]
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We are salmon people, but there's a season for everything.
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When the dandelions bloom,
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that's when we know it's halibut season.
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[Jay laughing]
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Sorry.
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[hook clattering]
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The tribes can't take responsibility
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for this place we're in now,
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as far as the depletion of the numbers
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that were in 1855 to where we are presently.
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We signed the treaty, but when we signed the treaty in 1855
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as Lummi Nation, the salmon, the qwe 'lhol mechen,
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the Salish Sea and the rivers were signatories too.
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Yes, we do harvest, but it's with respect,
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with an understanding that there are covenants,
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there are relationships,
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and there's unwritten laws we have to follow,
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and what happens to them inevitably happens to us.
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How do you blend that spirit and ceremony
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from indigenous people,
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and that relationship-based living with nature,
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with science and the world around us
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that controls everything?
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We collect killer whale feces
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with the assistance of a scent detection dog.
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By utilizing a scent detection dog,
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we are able to stay really far away from the animals.
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It allows us to ask questions about stress hormones
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and eliminate our boat as a potential confounding factor.
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We can look at nutrition hormones, pregnancy hormones,
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so we can tell if a female is pregnant
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or was recently pregnant.
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These females are getting pregnant,
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but they can't keep their pregnancies
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because they're nutritionally deprived.
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Up to 70?nnot bring their calf to bear.
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The Southern Residents are literally starving.
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No word in our language for famine, going hungry.
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That was never, ever, ever a part of our history.
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I think to help create empathy around this conversation,
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it is one of the biggest challenges we face,
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Because if the outside world's
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hearing someone speak about salmon,
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they might be thinking Costco or Trader Joe's,
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or why don't they just go to the store and buy some?
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If you can imagine,
since the beginning of time,
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we like to think that we grew from here.
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It's our place of belonging.
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But things were here long before us.
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We know that humans are never created first.
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It's always the earth, the rivers, the sea,
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the animals, the four-legged, the ones under the water.
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The fish don't see a border.
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The whales don't see a border.
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We're the only ones that see a border.
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Fish exiting their natal river
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from Oregon, Washington, BC Canada,
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the vast majority of those fish go to Alaska.
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This is something that has happened since time immemorial.
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This is what salmon do.
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And yet, we're allowing fishing to occur in Alaska
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that is not sustainable
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for runs that are native to down here.
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The whales are not factored in at all to the quotas.
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I do not think that the tribe portion
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should be touched in any way.
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The rest of the fish,
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non-tribal commercial and recreational fishing,
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it's those fish that I believe
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the Southern Residents should be allocated a portion of.
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You have joined several letters
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calling for Lower Snake River dam removal
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as essential for the sake of the orcas, why?
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I think we'd be hard-pressed
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to find any killer whale biologists
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that don't call for the Snake River dams to be removed.
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These are animals that co-evolved eating Pacific salmon.
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We're closing off an incredibly important habitat,
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and in the case of the Snake River,
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fish have to exit eight dams to get to the Pacific Ocean
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and eight dams to get back to their spawning grounds.
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That's really how we have to be thinking
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about recovering this population of whales,
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is making sure that the fish that they rely on
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have healthy ecosystems to return to.
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Thousands of miles of blockage for salmon,
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for the purpose of resources, power, money,
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justified for freeways, and roads, and cities.
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Us humans, you know, we're almost thinking we're godlike,
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disrupting this beautiful art, and creation, and painting,
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and making it fit our needs around
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what means the most: tala, money, power.
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We have to right those wrongs if we wanna have a future
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and not have your kids
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looking back 100 years from now saying,
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"Oh, wow, there used to be killer whales and salmon."
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[water splashing]
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The thing that I'm right now most excited about,
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which we are just embarking on,
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is a collaborative project to analyze the killer whale feces
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to be able to extract prey DNA and be able to say,
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"Right now, we know this whale ate,
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12 to 24 hours before, fish from these rivers."
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I see that information coming out of the prey DNA
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as being one of the most,
if not the most critical thing
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because that will allow us to provide that information
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to wildlife managers who are tasked
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with recovering these whales.
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We will be able to tell the DNA from the prey
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from any of the river systems
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that the whales are foraging from.
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It won't matter whether or not
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they're coming from Canadian rivers or U.S. rivers.
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[people vocalizing]
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We're talking about the Snake River here,
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the Columbia River, what's taken place?
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Our ancestors entered into an agreement,
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not a privilege, a right to reserve the right to fish.
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An Indian treaty is not an Indian treaty,
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it's your treaty too,
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for those of you who are non-indigenous.
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I think just honoring those treaties is a huge solution
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to the future of the existence of my people, other people,
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the rivers, the salmon, the orca.
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[water lapping]
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How can we live together in tune with one another,
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marry ceremony and spirit with science,
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before it's too late?
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[people vocalizing]
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To reverse the wrongs and evaluate who we become
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as people, as policymakers, as citizens,
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I think we really need to examine our way of life.
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I believe we can change,
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but there's gotta be a change within each of us.
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That's my hope, so what does that look like?
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It looks like new babies born healthy
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in the Southern Resident family.
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Everything's alive.
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Everything that belongs and was once here returns,
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and there's abundance
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and there's respect.
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[ethereal ambient music]
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[water lapping]
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[indigenous drumming]
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[Chenoa vocalizing in indigenous language]
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[gulls calling]
[waves lapping]
Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 16 minutes
Date: 2024
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 10-12, College, Adults
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