1. The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Salmon Cultural Program: An Educational Booklet Presentation
Elise Loggers /
Marilyn Prosser /
Ash Lehto /

2. Presentation Outline Background Our project: Client
Steelhead trout
Restoration projects of the S’Klallam
S’Klallam salmon culture
Our project: Client
The Product: An educational booklet
Purpose
Production
Use
Example pages from the booklet
Importance of the product

3. Background- Steelhead Trout and Decline
Member of the Salmonidae Family
Includes Salmon, trout, and char
Translates to “looks like salmon”
Iteroparous
Meaning they can spawn multiple times
Rainbow trout are same species but are not anadromous
Listed as endangered
Dikes, destruction of natural habitat, over harvesting
Recovery efforts by Jamestown S’Klallam

4. Background of Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe
“The strong people”
On the Dungeness drainage basin
Crest: Salmon and Eagle
Leading efforts in conservation and restoration of steelhead and other salmonids

5. Jamestown S’Klallam Culture & Salmon
Lived in this area for nearly 10,000 years
The “Strong People” (Stauss 2002)
“The Salmon is life; he is continuance…”
Main source of protein (Stauss 2002)
Celebration of first salmon to return

6. Client: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe
David Brownell
Tribe Cultural Resource Specialist
Jamestown Descendent
Culture and Science

7. Jamestown S’Klallam Stream Restoration
Increase in infrastructure
Jimmycomelately Creek (Shreffler 2012)
Only seven salmon in 1999
Over 1000 now
Dungeness Watershed
Restoration is an investment in their children
Dungeness River
Jimmycomelately Creek

8. Jimmycomelately Creek

9. Our Project: An Educational Booklet
Purpose:
Make an educational booklet for children ages 10-13
Educate, inspire, and bring awareness to children
Objectives:
Consumptive roles of salmon (conservation)
Non-consumptive roles (culture)
Relate importance of culture to environmental responsibility

10. Making an Educational Booklet
Semantics
Target audience (Gustavsson et al )
Colors: red, light blue, black, white
Games to engage
Art and pictures
Text and text-boxes
Organization
Booklet Outline
Introduce salmon
Endangered & why
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe
Culture & salmon
Restoration projects
Dungeness
Jimmycomelately
What you can do

11. Applying and Using the Booklet
Hand out book to S’Klallam Tribe children
Pass book out at other youth centers or schools
Information will diffuse to adults (Hiramatsu et al. 2014)
Will inspire kids and adults to be more careful and aware of the impacts of their actions
Use as a tool to inspire and educate

12. Culture & Tribe Tribal-based art to tie page together
Text with brief overview of important aspects of tribe
Map showing location of S’Klallam tribe so kids have visual reference
Picture of the S’Klallam crest for visual effects
Salmon identifies “Did You Know” and information sections
Activity to make kids remember things from the past and tie in with what they are learning

13. Restoration The Steelhead indicates points of interest and activities
Exercises help to engage with kids
Photos from the actual restoration sites connect with the audience

14. Why This Booklet is Necessary
Makes learning fun!
Integrating activities in a booklet creates permanent memories
Alternative to traditional teaching methods
Easily accessible to a wider audience
All schools, churches, club, etc. can distribute
Some activities require the child to reflect on the subject material and relate to it
Children are our future

15. References
Bishop School Photo. Gustavsson, Laila and Pramling, Niklas. (2014). The educational nature of different ways teachers communicate with children about natural phenomena. International Journal of Early Years Education. Vol 22:1. Pp Hiramatsu, A., et al. (2014). Spillover effect on families derived from environmental education for children. Low Carbon Economy, 5(2). Pp ProQuest Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Shreffler, D. (ed.) Jimmycomelately Ecosystem Restoration: Monitoring Report Prepared by Shreffler Environmental for Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, Sequim, Washington. Stauss, Joseph H The Jamestown S'Klallam story: rebuilding a Northwest coast Indian tribe. Sequim, WA: Jamestown S'Klallam. Worley, Joan, Faulstich, David, & Woodcock, David. Totem Poles of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Sequim

16. QUESTIONS?