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"Billy Frank Jr. was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and arrested many times at Frank's Landing on the Nisqually River, he emerged as one of the most influential Northwest Indians in modern history. His efforts helped lead to U.S. v. Washington in 1974, in which U.S. District Judge George H. Boldt affirmed Northwest tribal fishing rights and allocated half the harvestable catch to...

"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to salmon migrations. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"-- Provided by publisher.

The story of a coho, Sumi, from her birth in a remote creek and her trip down river to the ocean, to her time as a mature fish in the seas, and finally her return to the place of her birth, where she spawns and dies.

Flo is a daredevil salmon while her brother Ebbie is a more cautious fish, but during their journey down river to the sea, they come to appreciate the differences in their personalities.

"Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in...

During a walk in the woods with her father, Kate learns about the life cycle of the sockeye salmon, as well as its place in the larger circle of life.

Describes the efforts of the Jackson Elementary School in Everett, Washington, to clean up a nearby stream, stock it with salmon, and preserve it as an unpolluted place where the salmon could return to spawn.