Smoking Salmon

This book is a collaborative effort of the staff and students of the Gwa’sala-‘Nak’waxda’xw School.  The school is located on the Tsulquate Reserve in Port Hardy, British Columbia, Canada.  We created this interactive book as a Masters of Education project, through the University of Victoria.   The goal was to incorporate technology as a tool to document aspects of the rich First Nations culture.  In the summer of 2012, the school built a smokehouse in partnership with North Island College.  This book chronicles the Gwa’sala-‘Nak’waxda’xw students learning the process of preserving salmon from their culture teachers “K’odi” Henry Nelson and “T'ɬaɬamdala'ogwa” Liz Cadwallader.  


Dianne Harris and Reed Allen