Chief Fog-Over-the-Salmon vs Fog Woman

In Tlingit tradition, the father of Fog Woman, named in the story of her marriage to Raven and the origin of the salmon run.

Chief Fog-Over-the-Salmon appears in the Tlingit Fog Woman story as her father, establishing her as the daughter of a figure connected to fog and salmon abundance before her marriage to Raven. Public retellings of the story, including those associated with Sealaska Heritage Institute and the Alaska Native Knowledge Network, name him this way, though he does not otherwise appear as an independent character with his own separate narrative in the sources this site draws on.

In Tlingit tradition, the daughter of Chief Fog-Over-the-Salmon who marries Raven and creates a run of sockeye salmon, then withdraws it and herself into the water after he mistreats her, explaining why salmon return to Tlingit rivers each year.

In this widely told Tlingit story, Raven marries Fog Woman, daughter of a chief called Fog-Over-the-Salmon. She conjures a great abundance of sockeye salmon for Raven and his household, drying more than they can eat. When Raven strikes her in anger or disrespect, depending on the telling, she leaves through the water, and every dried salmon Raven had stored follows her back into the river. Tlingit tellers use the story to explain why salmon return to the region's rivers each year, and it is publicly commemorated in the Chief Johnson totem pole in Ketchikan, Alaska, which depicts Raven, Fog Woman, and salmon.