Snowchange Coordinator Curtis Rattray from Tahltan Nation invites the international delegates to the Fishers Summit 2019. The video has been shot in March 2019 by Hannibal Rhoades, Gaia Foundation. Curtis is leading efforts to document oral histories and voices of the Tahltan Nation on climate and biodiversity work and Indigenous resurgence in their home region. Curtis has been involved with Snowchange since 2000.

Young Tahltan hunter, trapper, and fisherman Waylon Tashoots demonstrates how the Tahltan trap wolves throughout their extensive traditional territory in northwest British Columbia. From trap location to priming and disguising the trap, Waylon provides a step-by-step guide to successful trapping, demonstrating his detailed knowledge of wolf behavior in the process. 2019

Young Tahltan hunter, trapper and fisherman Waylon Tashoots and community leader Curtis Rattray discuss the central importance of the moose in Tahltan traditional culture, how the Tahltan have hunted moose past and present and the critical importance of reciprocity in Tahltan hunting culture. 2019

Young Tahltan hunter, trapper and fisherman Waylon Tashoots demonstrates how the Tahltan trap marten throughout their extensive traditional territory in northwest British Columbia. From trap location to priming and disguising the trap, Waylon provides a step-by-step guide to successful trapping, demonstrating his detailed knowledge of marten behaviour in the process. 2019

Young Tahltan hunter, trapper and fisherman Waylon Tashoots demonstrates how the Tahltan trap lynx throughout their extensive traditional territory in northwest British Columbia. From trap location to priming and disguising the trap - a particular challenge when it comes to the intelligent and wary lynx- Waylon provides a step-by-step guide to successful trapping, demonstrating his detailed knowledge of lynx behaviour in the process. 2019

Tahltan artist Tsēmā Igharas and her grandmother Grace Williams discuss the various practical and decorative artistic traditions of Tahltan First Nations people, from preparing moose-hide clothing and the importance of sewing as a skill traditionally learned by all young Tahltans, to the importance of beadwork. 2019

Young Tahltan hunter Gilbert Tashoots Jnr discusses how he first learned to hunt and demonstrates some of the basics of moose tracking and hunting in the Tahltan First Nation’s extensive traditional territory in northwest British Columbia. 2019

Young Tahltan hunter Gilbert Tashoots Jnr discusses Tahltan hunting practices past and present. He shares thoughts about the animals the Tahltan have hunted since time immemorial, the techniques used to cover the vast Tahltan Territory on hunting expeditions, the central importance of moose and the importance of reciprocity in relating to hunted animals. 2019

Tahltan community leader Curtis Rattray describes why Tahltan First Nations People first chose to settle at Tahltan, the earliest settlement in what is now the Nation’s extensive traditional territory in northwest British Columbia, Canada. Curtis shares that salmon runs up the Tahltan River, high bluffs to observe animals for hunting and possibilities for creating long-distance trails and trading routes out of the Grand Canyon of the Stikine River all played a role in his ancestors’ decision making. 2019

Tahltan community leader Curtis Rattray describes the importance of ‘Warrior Hill’ in Tahltan culture. Warrior Hill is a tall, rocky bluff, with sheer drops to the Tahltan River below. Curtis describes how young Tahltan warriors once tested their courage by free climbing the crumbling rock face from bottom to top, placing an arrow through a willow-hoop at the summit.

Tahltan community leader Curtis Rattray describes some of the place names and transformation sites around Tahltan, the place where the people of the Tahltan First Nation first settled at the confluence of the Stikine and Tahltan Rivers. The transformation sites are connected to the stories of Tsesk'iye Cho (Raven) who led the Tahltan People up the Stikine and built his house alongside their own at Tahltan. 2019.

Tahltan community leader Curtis Rattray describes the origin story of the Tahltan First Nation People, in which two women meet across the Stikine River, call one another sister and unite their people into Crow and Wolf Clan to establish the Tahltan People and their homelands. 2019.