Table 1.

A glossary of terms.

Term	Definition
First Nations	Indigenous people in Canada who are not Inuit or Métis. There are 630 million First Nations and more than 1.5 million Indigenous Canadians.
First generation story	A story originating from the first generation of Indigenous peoples, such as creation stories.
Food, social, and ceremonial fisheries	First Nations fisheries that are constitutionally protected in Canada as an inherent right.
Indigenous peoples	People descended from the original precolonial inhabitants of a particular place on earth. Indigenous people maintain connection to the lands, cultural practices, and traditions of their ancestors, and remain distinct from the dominant societies in which they live.
Indigenous management	Management systems grounded in the worldviews and daily practices of Indigenous people.
Management system	The social and cultural processes that encode norms for the use of natural resources, including the technologies and understandings that underpin decision making Lertzman (2009).
Mixed-stock fishery	A fishery that captures salmon from many populations.
Reconciliation	A government-to-government process undertaken by Canadian and Indigenous nations to reconcile historical harms done by colonization and foster more equitable relationships into the future.
Selective fishery	A fishery that captures target species but allows for the live release—with minimal harm—of nontarget species.
Social–ecological system	A system composed of interconnected biological, social and economic, and governance components.
Terminal fishery	Fisheries that catch salmon returning to a single river, typically with minimal bycatch of fish from other rivers. These fisheries may be conducted in river or at the head of an inlet where the river enters the ocean.
Wild salmon	Salmon born and reared in their natural habitat. By contrast salmon of hatchery origin or raised in fish farms are not wild.