{"id":21605,"date":"2022-08-01T07:25:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T07:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=21605"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:28:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T07:28:55","slug":"conte-haida-the-coming-of-the-salmon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/haida-tlingit-tsimshian-mythology\/haida-tale-the-coming-of-the-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Haida Story: The Coming Of The Salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/haida-tlingit-tsimshian-mythology\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHaida-Tlingit-Tsimshian Mythology<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpeople.us\/FP-Html-Legends\/The-Coming-Of-The-Salmon-Haida.html\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/haida-tlingit-tsimshian-mythology\/\">Haida<\/a><\/strong> are a Native American people of the west coast of Canada and the northern United States, as well as a southeastern part of Alaska, along the Pacific coast, and in the Haida Gwaii archipelago in particular. Here is their tale: The Coming Of The Salmon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"The Coming Of The Salmon\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/haida-tlingit-tsimshian-mythology\/haida-tale-the-coming-of-the-salmon\/#The-Coming-Of-The-Salmon\" >The Coming Of The Salmon<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The-Coming-Of-The-Salmon\"><\/span>The Coming Of The Salmon<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The little daughter of the chief cried and cried and cried. She<br \/>\ncried because no one could give her that for which she cried. Neither<br \/>\nher father, who was a powerful chief, nor the wisest men of the<br \/>\ntribe could give her the great, shining fish that she desired. Even<br \/>\nthe oldest of the tribe had never seen such a fish. As the little<br \/>\ngirl cried day and night and grew sick by crying, the chief ordered<br \/>\na great Council Fire.<\/p>\n<p>All of the tribal medicine men sat around the fire, and the wisest<br \/>\nof them rose to speak. &quot;The maiden cries for a thing which<br \/>\nshe has seen in a dream,&quot; he declared. &quot;Many fish have<br \/>\nwe in our Inlet, big fish, but none are like the one of which the<br \/>\ndaughter of our chief speaks. Such a fish may prove big medicine<br \/>\nfor our tribe if we can find it. Let our wise men speak. Maybe one<br \/>\nof them may know where such a great, gleaming, leaping fish may be found.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Only one medicine man stood up. After saluting the chief he spoke,&quot;The<br \/>\nRaven, who lives among the cedars, is my good friend. He is very<br \/>\nwise and knows many things that the wisest among us know not. Let<br \/>\nme bring him to this Council Fire, that he may counsel us.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The chief gave his permission, and the old medicine man left the<br \/>\nCouncil Fire and soon returned with the Raven seated on his shoulder.<br \/>\nThe great bird croaked as he spoke, and only the wisest could follow his talk-trail.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What the daughter of the chief asks for is a giant fish,<br \/>\nknown as a Salmon. In this moon, they are to be found far from here<br \/>\nat the mouth of a mighty river, which flows into the other side<br \/>\nof our Inlet. Because those of your tribe are my friends, I will<br \/>\nfly swift and far to bring one of these fish to your village.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Before the chief could thank it, the big bird was high in the air.<br \/>\nIt flew far, and fast as a harpoon travels, until its keen eyes<br \/>\nsaw, far beneath, many Salmon swimming together at the mouth of<br \/>\nthe river. The Raven dived quick as a hawk and, by chance, caught<br \/>\nthe little son of the Salmon Chief in his talons. Rising high in<br \/>\nthe air, with the fish held firmly in his claws, the Raven flew<br \/>\ntoward the distant village of his friends.<\/p>\n<p>Salmon Scouts, leaping high from the water, in great flashing arcs,<br \/>\nsaw the direction in with the Raven flew. A horde of Salmon, led<br \/>\nby their chief, swam rapidly in pursuit. Speedily as the fish swam,<br \/>\nthe fast-flying bird reached the village far ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>The Raven placed the great fish before the little daughter of the<br \/>\nchief. She smiled, and cried no more. Then the bird told his friend,<br \/>\nthe old medicine man, that many Salmon would be sure to swim into<br \/>\nthe river inlet, in pursuit, to try and rescue the young Salmon<br \/>\nwhich he had caught.<\/p>\n<p>The medicine man told the chief what the Raven had said, and the<br \/>\nfishermen and women were told to weave a huge net. This they did<br \/>\nswiftly, and when the Salmon came, all of the fish were caught in<br \/>\nthe net. To hold them prisoner, a long, strong leather thong was<br \/>\npassed through their gills. One end of the thong was tied to a big<br \/>\nrock and the other end was fastened to this great totem pole, which<br \/>\nthen grew as a tall cedar. Ever since, it has been called the &lsquo;Nhe-is-bik&rsquo;,<br \/>\nor tethering pole. On this pole &#8211; a totem pole &#8211; there was carved<br \/>\na mighty Thunderbird, an Indian Chief, a Raven and a Salmon, carved<br \/>\nin that order from the top of the great cedar pole. The end of this<br \/>\nstory tells of great magic. Year after year, from that time, the<br \/>\nSalmon passed on that side of the river Inlet, and the people were glad.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haida-Tlingit-Tsimshian Mythology Wiki The Haida are a Native American people of the west coast of Canada and the northern United States, as \u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4275,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21605","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21609,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21605\/revisions\/21609"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}