Following the Grease Trails - A Storyhive Documentary Edition Pitch

Following the Grease Trail: BC's Nass Valley - Then & Now, is the latest story that has been titillating of synapses. As such, we are pitching it in the Storyhive Documentary Edition.

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For more of a tease on what's to come, here is the synapsis:

Sparked by the oil of one small fish, the Pacific Northwest’s first highways and settlement corridors were established. This was a fish (the eulachon) that on occasion held the balance between the life and death of communities in it’s oil, and it now struggles for it’s own survival, listed as endangered in many of it’s once rich spawning grounds in the Pacific Northwest, in turn impacting the cultures of the indigenous communities whose way of life evolved around this fish and it’s valuable oil that created the Grease Trails of the Pacific Northwest. Travelling those routes today, we exploring BC’s indigenous knowledge and culture, and see how the First Nations communities along the Grease Trails have changed. We begin our journey starting with one of the healthiest eulachon spawning grounds in the heart of the Nisga’a territory in BC’s Nass Valley. Here the Seasons revolve around the traditional harvest cycles, and the Nisga’a New Year, Hobiiyee, is kicked off every year in February with the return of the eulachon to spawn in the mighty Nass River. It is here that our story begins.

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Our thanks to the following individuals for the use of their Creative Commons images:

- the Eulachon: James Crippen (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eulachon.jpg)

- Eulachon Fishing: Canadian Museum of History (https://www.historymuseum.ca/)

- Nass River: Connie Azak (https://www.flickr.com/photos/134712572@N06/)

- Nisga'a Dancers: Jethro Taylor (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rustybadger/)