"Sliming Crew", Carlisle Cannery

"Sliming Crew", Carlisle Cannery

August 1913

1913-08

Norbert James, John Celestine, Damen Solomon, and others. Canning companies routinely hired Native Americans for the sliming crews, more often women than men. Slimers scraped and cleaned the fish before sending them down the canning line to the hand butchers or automatic butchering machines. While sliming was often the dampest and most dismal work in a cannery, the wages proved an important mainstay for Native Americans. In the 1960s, Norbert James (Sr.) in the white shirt assumed the position of hereditary chief among the Lummi.

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