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Fish wheel

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A fish wheel, also known as a salmon wheel, is a device situated in rivers for catching fish which looks and operates like a watermill. [1]

27 relations: Artisanal fishing, Athabaskan languages, Celilo Falls, Chitina River, Columbia River, Copper River (Alaska), Food security, Food sovereignty, Fort Yukon, Alaska, Gillnetting, Land grabbing, Nass River, Nez Perce people, Nisga'a, North America, Northern Pacific Railway, Pacific coast, Seine fishing, Smoked salmon, Status of First Nations treaties in British Columbia, Sustainability, The Dalles, Oregon, Traditional ecological knowledge, Umatilla Indian Reservation, United States v. Winans, Yakama, Yukon River.

Artisanal fishing

Artisanal fishing (or traditional/subsistence fishing) are various small-scale, low-technology, low-capital, fishing practices undertaken by individual fishing households (as opposed to commercial companies).

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Athabaskan languages

Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Dene, Athapascan, Athapaskan) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three groups of contiguous languages: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean).

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Celilo Falls

Celilo Falls (Wyam, meaning "echo of falling water" or "sound of water upon the rocks," in several native languages) was a tribal fishing area on the Columbia River, just east of the Cascade Mountains, on what is today the border between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington.

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Chitina River

The Chitina River (Ahtna Athabascan Tsedi Na’ is a tributary of the Copper River in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins in the Saint Elias Mountains at the base of Chitana Glacier and flows generally northwest through the Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve to meet the larger river near Chitina. The watershed was once a major copper mining region.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Copper River (Alaska)

The Copper River or Ahtna River, Ahtna Athabascan ‘Atna’tuu, "river of the Ahtnas", Tlingit Eeḵhéeni, "river of copper", is a 290-mile (470 km) river in south-central Alaska in the United States.

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Food security

Food security is a condition related to the availability of food supply, group of people such as (ethnicities, racial, cultural and religious groups) as well as individuals' access to it.

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Food sovereignty

"Food sovereignty", a term coined by members of Via Campesina in 1996,"Global Small-Scale Farmers' Movement Developing New Trade Regimes", Food First News & Views, Volume 28, Number 97 Spring/Summer 2005, p.2.

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Fort Yukon, Alaska

Fort Yukon (Gwichyaa Zheh in Gwich’in, originally, Gwich’in: Gwich'yaa Zhee; translation: "house on the Flats") is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Gillnetting

Gillnetting is a common fishing method used by commercial and artisanal fishermen of all the oceans and in some freshwater and estuary areas.

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Land grabbing

Land grabbing is the contentious issue of large-scale land acquisitions: the buying or leasing of large pieces of land by domestic and transnational companies, governments, and individuals.

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Nass River

The Nass River is a river in northern British Columbia, Canada.

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Nez Perce people

The Nez Perce (autonym: Niimíipuu in their own language, meaning "the walking people" or "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who have lived on the Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States for a long time.

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Nisga'a

The Nisga’a, often formerly spelled Nishga and spelled in the Nisga’a language as Nisg̱a’a (pronounced), are an Indigenous people of Canada in British Columbia.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Northern Pacific Railway

The Northern Pacific Railway was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest.

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Pacific coast

A country's Pacific coast is the part of its coast bordering the Pacific Ocean.

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Seine fishing

Seine fishing (or seine-haul fishing) is a method of fishing that employs a fishing net called a seine, that hangs vertically in the water with its bottom edge held down by weights and its top edge buoyed by floats.

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Smoked salmon

Smoked salmon is a preparation of salmon, typically a fillet that has been cured and hot or cold smoked.

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Status of First Nations treaties in British Columbia

The status of the First Nations, Aboriginal people of British Columbia (BC), Canada, is a long-standing problem that has become a major issue in recent years.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.

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The Dalles, Oregon

The Dalles is the county seat and largest city of Wasco County, Oregon, United States.

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Traditional ecological knowledge

Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) describes indigenous and other forms of traditional knowledge regarding sustainability of local resources.

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Umatilla Indian Reservation

The Umatilla Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

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United States v. Winans

United States v. Winans, 198 U.S. 371 (1905), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that held that the Treaty with the Yakima of 1855, negotiated and signed at the Walla Walla Council of 1855, as well as treaties similar to it, protected the Indians’ rights to fishing, hunting and other privileges.

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Yakama

The Yakama is a Native American tribe with nearly 10,851 members, inhabiting Washington state.

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Yukon River

The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_wheel

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