SALMON BOY A Haida Story
Oct 01, 2021
3 minutes
retold by Robert San Souci
illustrated by David Mercer
A boy once lived among the Haida with his widowed mother. Her husband had been lost at sea while fishing for salmon. The woman loved her son deeply and gave him the copper necklace that had belonged to his father. They lived on the mussels and seaweed she gathered and on the salmon she caught in the warm season.
They were poor, and their sleeping mats were in the
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