Guarding Her People
by Bryan Spellman
Title
Guarding Her People
Artist
Bryan Spellman
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The legends of the Yurok people of Northern California speak of two spirits who loved the people so much, they chose to become rock and guard their beloved Yurok for all eternity. The two sit opposite each other at the mouth of the Klamath River. Oregos sits on the north bank, looking out to sea. The Yurok's website has this to say:
Spirit Oregos liked people so she decided to be a huge rock at the mouth of the
Klamath River. Her job each year was to tell the fish when they should leave the ocean and head upriver.
And so, each year, Oregos guides the smelt and candlefish, upriver where the Yurok people net them. They are so oil-rich that they can be burnt as a candle for light.
Then in the spring she sends up the cut-throat trout, in May the giant sturgeon, and in July she calls in [napooie] Salmon, the delicious king salmon. August is the steelhead run, followed by silver salmon. Oregos, what a spiritual helper.
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December 3rd, 2017
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