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We then enjoyed an Aboriginal feast of moose, halibut, smoked salmon, stuffed salmon, turnip, herring roe and oolichan (also known as the “candlefish”).
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » October 2007
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After hearing much about the oolichan in my First Nations courses, I, of course, had to try it.
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » October 2007
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Huan's work embodies a kind of perpetual astonishment, lithe, hard, like the images of himself and others naked, faced with the realities of their environment as they are in the series "Hard to acclimatize," in which naked bodies hang like oolichan in a smoke house, or in the performance 12 Square Meters, which he forces himself to sit in the most squalid toilet in "the village" not the east village!
Zhang Huan vs. the Scotch Tape Folks & After Language Poetry Lemon Hound 2006
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Huan's work embodies a kind of perpetual astonishment, lithe, hard, like the images of himself and others naked, faced with the realities of their environment as they are in the series "Hard to acclimatize," in which naked bodies hang like oolichan in a smoke house, or in the performance 12 Square Meters, which he forces himself to sit in the most squalid toilet in "the village" not the east village!
Archive 2006-10-01 Lemon Hound 2006
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Haisla leaders yesterday told the panel and hundreds of participants about the importance of oolichan, a fish species, and other animals and plants used for food throughout their 2,000-year history.
unknown title 2012
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Migratory fish including salmon and oolichan cannot access the upper river but gather in the lower reaches where another nature conservancy is also situated.
Dose.ca Music briefs Scott Simpson 2010
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Many see it as the life-source of a breathing natural world that bestows black cod, clams, seaweed, Coho salmon, oolichan and other gifts upon those attuned to its rhythms.
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Migratory fish including salmon and oolichan cannot access the upper river but gather in the lower reaches where another nature conservancy is also situated.
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Migratory fish including salmon and oolichan cannot access the upper river but gather in the lower reaches where another nature conservancy is also situated.
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Like the indigenous cultures of the Mediterranean, they developed unique local sources of food and methods of storage (eg, oolichan grease on the British Columbia and Alaskan coasts).
sionnach commented on the word oolichan
See also eulachon.
October 15, 2009
alexz commented on the word oolichan
I've grown up with oolichan, instead of eulachon
mostly because I'd hear the word and never see it spelled
March 18, 2016