Steelheaders’ Film Fest
Presented by the Association of Northwest Steelheaders
Featuring Covenant of the Salmon People
The Steelheaders Film Fest showcases inspiring films that highlight conservation efforts to protect the fish and rivers we love. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to experience these films on the big screen, meet filmmakers, and connect with your local angling and conservation community.
This year’s festival features Covenant of the Salmon People, a powerful documentary that explores the deep cultural, spiritual, and ecological relationship between Indigenous peoples and salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The film highlights Tribal leadership, traditional ecological knowledge, and collaborative restoration efforts that are working to heal rivers and recover salmon runs—offering both a call to action and a message of hope for the future of these iconic fish.
More films added soon!
Films
COVENANT OF THE SALMON PEOPLE is a 60-minute documentary portrait of the Nez Perce Tribe as they continue to carry out their ancient promise to protect Chinook salmon, cornerstone species and first food their people have subsisted on for tens of thousands of years. As a dammed river system and climate impacts threaten the extinction of Chinook salmon, a cornerstone of their culture and ancestral diet, they continue to do their part to uphold this relationship–but will it be enough to save wild salmon from extinction?
The covenant with salmon is woven into their culture, history, and now their modern-day species restoration work. The Nez Perce people are the oldest documented civilization in North America, with archaeological sites along Idaho’s Salmon River dating back 16,500 years.
Today the tribe is facing the extirpation of their most prized salmon species despite decades of recovery efforts, and the widespread construction of dams across their Traditional lands has challenged recovery. The only option for the tribe to uphold their ancient deal with salmon and save the species from extinction is the breaching of four dams on the lower Snake River–will the Federal Government take charge of the situation or sit idly while this iconic species vanishes from their home waters?
More films added soon!
RAFFLE AND PRIZES
All attendees will be entered into a raffle on the night of the festival with prizes awarded throughout the night. More tickets available for purchase on site.
Anyone who signs up for a NW Steelheaders sustaining membership that evening will be entered into an additional special raffle for an Outcast PAC 800 Pontoon Boat.
Proceeds support our fellow conservation-driven nonprofit partners and the ongoing work of the Association of Northwest Steelheaders.
The Association is a 501(C)3 – non-profit corporation, Federal Tax ID – No. 91-1031100
