The Nooksack Tribe’s successful efforts to restore salmon habitat on the North Fork Nooksack River were covered by the Bellingham Herald:
Chinook salmon are already taking advantage of a new stretch of spawning channel on the north fork of the Nooksack River that was improved in the past year through a project overseen by the Nooksack Indian Tribe. (more…)
Coast Salish tribes will gather Saturday at Boulevard Park in Bellingham, ahead of the Tribal Canoe Journey.
The public is invited to the Coast Salish Day celebration, which begins at 11 a.m., with canoes scheduled to land at noon. Activities include native art, the traditional bone game slahal, canoe rides and food vendors. (more…)
The Bellingham Herald covered the Lummi Nation’s First Salmon Ceremony:
About 600 Lummi Indian Tribe members and guests gathered Thursday, May 14, at Lummi Nation School to celebrate the arrival of the first salmon – a celebration marked by both hope and fear for the future of the fish that defines tribal identity.
“When I was a young boy, I heard my grandfather say, when he was eating a salmon, ‘This is good medicine,'” said Merle Jefferson, the tribe’s natural resources director.
The First Salmon Ceremony is a key cultural observance for the Lummi and other Coast Salish tribes. For generations, the tribes have conducted these ceremonies to honor the salmon and assure their return. (more…)
Northwest Indian College will be graduating its first students with four-year bachelor’s degrees this spring.
Those first degrees will be in native environmental sciences, and the graduates will have expertise that combines traditional Native American knowledge of the natural world with conventional environmental science. (more…)
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The Bellingham Herald: A Lummi Nation project would move a portion of Saxon Road off the banks of the south fork of the Nooksack River, allowing the tribe to restore…
The Bellingham Herald writes about Lummi tribal geoduck harvest: Cliff Cultee and other Lummi geoduck divers hope to get a chance to harvest the big, meaty clams again this spring.…
The Bellingham Herald has a story about a Nooksack tribal crabber: (Jeff) Williams, a Nooksack Indian, has been fishing since the 1970s. He estimates that fewer than 12 of the…
The Bellingham Herald reports on Salmon Recovery Funding Board projects in Whatcom County. Lummi Nation was the largest single recipient in the county:
Whatcom County, a salmon conservation group and local tribes on Wednesday received $3.5 million in grants to help struggling salmon populations and restore their habitats in the Nooksack River.
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Efforts range from a Lummi Nation plan to catch adult chinook salmon in the south fork, spawn them and raise juveniles to increase the population’s chances of survival; to a Nooksack Indian Tribe plan to build four logjams on the south fork near Tawes and Caron creeks to provide pools that cool the water for salmon.
The Bellingham Herald has a story about a delay in plans to elevate Slater Road, near the Lummi Reservation: A project to elevate a floodprone section of Slater Road won’t…