After a Tlingit mother gives her son a dried piece of salmon with mold on the end, he flings it away in disgust, committing a taboo. This offends the Salmon People, who sweep him into the water and into their world, where they name him Shanyaak'utlaa̲x or Salmon Boy.--Dust jacket
Themes
Categories: Beautiful Life
Content: Bi/multilingual
Settings: Alaska
Gender: Boy/Man
Race/Culture: First/Native Nations/American Indian/Indigenous
Character Prominence: Dominant Main