stseelhtuns tthu hulitun | Saving the Salmon Protest

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• Title: stseelhtuns tthu hulitun | Saving the Salmon Protest
• Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
• Description: From the Cowichan Leader: Gordon Elliott speaking with the press before the fish camp on his property was cordoned off to the public.
  (Published 06 September 1973).

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hwuhwilmuhw knowledge

• Speaker/Story Teller: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie & Sti’tuma’t | Ruby Peter (Kwa’mutsun Elder)
• Date of recording:
• Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:

stseelhtuns tthu hulitun | Saving the Salmon Protest

1. na’nuts’a’ shhw’aqw’a’ tst Gordie Elliott qwaqwul’stum’ hun’utum’ press  kwus yu sq’uq’ip tthu siiye’yu tst kwusulh ’imustum tthu swe’s syaays stseelhtuns tthu hulitun.
   This is one of our siblings Gordie Elliott being interviewed by the press when our relatives gathered to stand with him on his work on saving the salmon.

See also: a link to a transcripted story by Elder Sti’tuma’t | Ruby Peter on saalhsqwal:

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Key information

• Time period or Date: 1973
• Theme(s): Activism and Rights, Sharing Indigenous Perspectives,
• Location: TBD
• Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
• Photographer credit: Leader Staff Photo
• Individuals identified: Gordon Elliott

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