PEKELÁNEW̱

As stated in "The Saanich Year":

Artist Statement: This is the moon of the turning white season (frost). This moon brings the first frost. The leaves lose their colours and turn pale. Deer hunting is the activity during this moon. The Earth is cooling down and people turn their efforts to hunting.

Weather: The longer cooler nights can lead to frost on the leaves and the ground in higher country. 

Economic Activities: The W̱SÁNEĆ people began splitting the cedar logs they had felled in the Spring. The completion of canoes would be Winter work. They would rough out their canoes in the forest making them easier to carry and move them to the villages.

 Seals and Sea lions were hunted in the San Juan Islands. Cod fishing tapered off toward the end of this moon and grouse hunting ceased. Preparations were made for the Fall hunt of deer and elk. Deer are in their rutting season and easily fooled - not as cautious as normal.  See below for more information about sea lions and elk. 

The People would be getting settled at their winter village sites. Large flocks of ducks came into the Saanich area and would be caught either in large aerial nets spanning an inlet, or in nets laid to float on the water. Women dug clams and dried them for winter