Praying for salmon to return
Jeffrey Mackie-Deernsted, Archdeacon of the Klondike, in the Yukon, says he hears the same song at almost every event he attends. Sung by the Hän singers, an intergenerational group from the Tr’ondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation, it is “a prayer song, hoping that the salmon will come back.” “In the six years that I’ve been here,…


