Otter Doesn’t Know (FNCR 2024) Sovereignty Preface - Theodore Fontaine

Preface - Theodore Fontaine

A silent clapboard church on a barren Arctic landscape is more than just a place of worship: it is a symbol that can evoke fraught reactions to the history of Christian colonization

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where waterways and rivers flow in and out of immense lakes

Otter Doesn’t Know (FNCR 2024) Sovereignty Preface - Theodore FontaineYou don't need to have all the answers to be a helper. Coast Salish artist and storyteller Andrea Fritz tells a tale of a salmon and a sea otter who learn it's ok to say "I don't know" and to ask for help. Coast Salish Tales 1: Thuqi the sockeye salmon knows its time to spawn, but she is lost in the Salish Sea and doesn't know the way to Sta'lo, the river. When she asks Tumus the sea otter for help, he doesnt exactly know either, and he dismisses her