Join Cascade PBS and Daybreak Star Radio for a free screening of three episodes of Origins: The Last Reefnetters, a five-part documentary series on the history and culture of reefnet fishing in the Salish Sea, followed by a community discussion with Cascade PBS and Daybreak Star Radio journalists.
The event will be held on Sunday, May 4 at 3 p.m. at the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, 5011 Bernie Whitebear Way in Discovery Park. It will be free and open to the public. RSVP here.
The five-part docuseries follows the final 12 captains to hold a reefnet fishing license, of whom only one is an enrolled tribal member. The practice was developed by the Lummi Nation and other Northern Straits Salish tribes thousands of years ago, but following punitive legislation, environmental damage and devastation caused by a budding cannery industry, Indigenous reefnetters were all but removed from the practice. Filmmaker Samuel Wolfe examines the legal, spiritual and cultural subtext that intertwines the Salish Sea’s last reefnetters.
