“My grandfather knew the soul of salmon.”

Dec 28

Vladimir Feodoroff (vlad-ee-meer fee-oh-door-off)

Skolt Sámi fisherman

IMAGE SOURCE: Photo by Chris McNeave. “Naatamo is a key to language, tradition, subsistence and culture .” Snowchange Cooperative. | QUOTE SOURCE: @ArchipelagoHope. “My grandfather knew the #soul of #salmon,” says #Skolt #Sami fishermen Vladimir Feo… — IMAGE SOURCE: Photo by Chris McNeave. “Naatamo is a key to language, tradition, subsistence and culture .” Snowchange Cooperative. | QUOTE SOURCE: @ArchipelagoHope. “My grandfather knew the #soul of #salmon,” says #Skolt #Sami fishermen Vladimir Feodoroff. Twitter. 18 Dec. 2018. 6:15PM.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “(My grandfather) understood the entire watershed like the relationship between salmon and freshwater mussels.”

QUOTE QUESTION: What did your grandfathers know and pass along to you?

IMAGE CONTEXT: Vladimir Feodoroff has caught a grayling on river Näätämö. He is a local coordinator for River Näätämö restoration work.

IMAGE QUESTION: What other being do you know the soul of?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from the author of a book on climate change and traditional Sami wisdom. The photo is from a report by a cooperative that works with Indigenous communities of the North.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How can indigenous knowledge be shared in respectful ways on the Internet?

“My grandfather knew the soul of salmon.”

Vladimir Feodoroff (vlad-ee-meer fee-oh-door-off)

“The river cannot be separated from the families, and the families cannot be separated from the salmon.”

“Life is transient, like a flash of lightning or a dream. Eighty years pass like a cloud. We're born and then we die.”