Presents a letter, protesting the nonrenewal of Morris Swadesh's contract by the City College of New York in 1949, signed by the chief of the Mowachat band. Morris Swadesh, who taught people how to write their language (Nuu-chah-nulth or Nootka), was much appreciated by the Aht people, thus his nonrenewal caused great concern.

Examines the interactions between coastal Aboriginal nations in British Columbia, Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) around the West Coast herring fishery as a site cultural resurgence, nationhood, solidarity, and Indigenous sovereignty.