Moon of the Falling Leaves
Summary:
In 2021, CSSP started a collaboration with the Swinomish people by creating a video series corresponding to the 13 Moons curriculum, offering a video for each moon.Cultural Narrative:
Much of October is the Moon of the Falling Leaves. During this moon, the last stocks of sockeye and humpback go up river while silvers and dog salmon are reaching their peaks. Fishing and drying salmon for the winter months continues during this time. This is the end of the harvest as plants are maturing and starting to die; it is a good time to gather nettles, cattails, salal, and bracken fern roots.