The new NWIFC Magazine is now online and features the celebration of the removal of the Elwha Dams. You can download the magazine (and over ten years of archives) here. From the Magazine: The thunderous beat of drums in the tribal gym sounded louder than usual: the beat harder, the men’s voices deeper, the women’s voices […]
The Lummi Nation distributed sockeye salmon to tribal members last month for families to can and store for the winter. “The tribe puts fish away as much as possible when we have an abundance, for ceremonies and all the functions that the tribe sponsors,” said Randy Kinley Sr., policy representative for the tribe. “It’s very […]
Rocky Barker has a great post over at the Idaho Stateman about the history behind the restoration of the Elwha River and how the struggle for treaty rights played into that: The most touching moments of the celebration marking the beginning of the end of the Elwha dams were tribal. They were the smiling faces […]
The thunderous beat of drums in the tribal gym sounded louder than usual: the beat harder, the men’s voices deeper, the women’s voices louder, the smiles bigger during the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s dam removal celebration Sept. 17. For nearly 100 years the tribe waited to celebrate the moment – the demolition of the Elwha […]
For the next two days, discussion around research and monitoring the removal of the Elwha River dams will be the center of the Elwha River Science Symposium. We’ll be live blogging the events of the symposium here. You can find out more about the symposium (including a program) here. (more…)
The Stillaguamish Tribe’s captive juvenile fall chinook soon will have a new home. The tribe has converted an old trout farm into a hatchery facility at Brenner Creek on the South Fork Stillaguamish River. The tribe expects the Brenner fish hatchery to be completed by the end of the year. The tribe has been rearing […]
“Earlier this week Billy Frank Jr. spoke at the annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Seattle. He spoke on the failure of salmon recovery and risk to treaty rights in a talk titled “Native American Leadership in management of Pacific salmon.” You can listen to his speech below. (more…)
NISQUALLY – This summer the Nisqually Indian Tribe is removing more than a mile of dike along the Nisqually River, allowing it to migrate naturally for the first time in a century. Removal of the 6,670 feet of dike is the last major dike removal project in the Nisqually estuary and caps more than decade […]
