There are several species of salmon in the Pacific Northwest. These are the Coho, Sockeye, Pink, Chum, Atlantic and the largest is the King or Chinook. Salmon are born in the rivers and swim to the sea where they live in salt water. At the time of playback, return to the river where they were born, lay eggs and then die. The young hatch and start the life cycle over again. Salmon have always been an important food source for the Northwest Native Indian pillar as much wildlife in the region, including many large birds, bears and river otters. This is why the salmon is a popular subject of art and Northwest Native Indian culture.
According to the Northwest Native Indian legend, salmon were actually people with superhuman abilities, and life everlasting. People lived in large houses Salmon under the ocean, but they knew that human beings need to land on food, have offered themselves for the tribe to land fish as food to become salmon. Their spirit had returned back to the ocean where they were born. A tribe on earth was short of food, why the salmon came to their waters. But people have heard of the Salmon. So the chief sent an expedition to find these people of salmon in order to ask them to come to their waters. After several days of travel, the shipment arrived in a new land where people were Salmon. The head of the Salmon people ordered four of their villagers to go to sea where they became salmon soon as the water reached their faces. He ordered others to recover these new fish salmon which were then cooked like a welcome party for guests in the shipment.
The chief told the guests to eat as much, but the bones of fish, salmon, even the smaller ones, should not be thrown out. All bones of salmon were collected from the villagers after the guests were quite careful to lay them in piles. Salmon, people then threw these bones back into the water. A few minutes later, the four individuals who originally turned into a salmon fish reappeared and joined the others.
In the coming days, guests watched the people repeat this process Salmon salmon with the bones over and over again. However, during a party later, one of the guests of the expedition secretly retained a few salmon bones. This time, when a person is back from out of the water salmon, was covering his face and said some of the bones may be missing because her cheeks were gone. Another said he was missing his chin. Alarmed by what had happened, the guest has brought out the bones missing salmon had previously withheld. The two salmon with missing body parts and then return to sea with these bones. On their return to the earth, both the Salmon people had their bodies back to full strength.
The expedition has asked the chief to leave some of its people visit their waters and Salmon rivers to supply enough food. The chief agreed to do so as long as the tribes have decided to reject all the salmon bones in water so that people could return home intact Salmon. If this was not observed, the tribe was told that the people refuse to return to Salmon in the waters of the tribe. So the tribe always honored the return of their salmon streams each year, and complied with the rules established by the people of Salmon head. This ensured an adequate food supply for the tribe each year.
An interesting fact is that when white men arrived in the region, the Northwest Native Indian people did not want to sell their salmon. It was feared that the salmon not be treated with respect by white men who were ignorant of the necessary customs and regulations laid down by the people of Salmon.
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