The Last Reefnetters Screening and Community Event

Join Cascade PBS and Daybreak Star Radio for a screening of Origins: The Last Reefnetters, a documentary series on the history and culture of reefnet fishing in the Salish Sea, followed by a community discussion with Cascade PBS and Daybreak Star Radio journalists.

Date: May 4, 2025
Time: Doors 2:30 PM, Program @ 3 PM
Venue: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
Tickets: Free and open to the public with RSVP

ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY:
Reefnet fishing is an innovative method developed by the Lummi Nation and other Northern Straits Salish tribes thousands of years ago. Following punitive legislation, environmental damage and devastation caused by a budding cannery industry looking to capitalize on a seemingly abundant resource, they were all but removed from the practice. Today, just 12 captains with a reefnet fishing license are left in the world, and only one of them is an enrolled tribal member. Filmmaker Samuel Wolfe’s story follows the Salish Sea’s last reefnetters, examining the legal, spiritual and cultural subtext that intertwines them.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Samuel is a husband, father, tribal member, filmmaker, and business strategist – some of the most common nouns he reaches for when someone asks, “So what do you do?” His professional background consists of creative work involving everything from old school broadcast, to virtual reality, to AI.

Some of the highlights born out of that work include directing credits on Microsoft product release films, media collaborations with McLaring Racing and the Seattle Kraken, and earning a 2024 regional EMMY award for his commercial campaign work for Maritime Washington.

He is currently a Sr. Manager of Design & Creative Strategy at Smartsheet, where he leads a talented team of brand marketing designers, animators, and copywriters.

ABOUT DAYBREAK STAR RADIO:
Our mission is to provide musical, educational, cultural, and language arts programming that reconnect Indigenous people to their heritage by strengthening their sense of belonging and significance as a people. Learn more at daybreakstarradio.com

Photo by Bert W. Huntoon, courtesy Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA. Logo design by Jason LaClair (Sienum)

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