By Aaron Hemens Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Whether harvesting salmon or simply spending quality time with her grandfather and uncles, Janna Wale has no shortage of stories about being on the water with her family. She moved around a bit growing up, but can vividly recall different memories from her early years fishing in her Gitxsan homelands _ there were “tons of fish everywhere” at the unceded confluence of the Skeena, Nass and Bulkley rivers near the village of “Hazelton, B.C.” “Our culture is totally built around salmon. We have different roles for salmon in the feast hall. It’s a large food supply for a lot of people, especially in the winter,” said Wale, who is from the Gitanmaax First Nation and is Cree-Metis on her mother’s side. “They’re so…
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