Canoes Take Off For Annual Journey This Week
The canoe families from Washington and B.C. are starting to make their way toward Suquamish this week. To follow the landing dates, where canoes will be pulling into over the…
Coast, Strait Tribes Receive Compensation for Sockeye Run
The Peninsula Daily News reported on the Makah, Lower Elwha Klallam and Jamestown S'Klallam tribes receiving federal funding to make up for poor sockeye runs from British Columbia's Fraser River.…
Tribes Blend Canoe Tradition with Science
During this summer’s annual Canoe Journey, Northwest tribes plan to blend modern science with traditional ways, by collecting water quality data from their canoes. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is…
Salish tribes gather at Tulalip to set common policy
This week, American Indian and Canadian First Nations leaders will hold talks in their own way: with stories, songs and bits of the rejuvenated Coast Salish languages.
The Tulalip Tribes are hosting the third annual Coast Salish Gathering, which brings together leaders of Coast Salish tribes, a region that stretches from north of Bella Coola, B.C., to as far south as Tillamook, Ore. Hundreds of leaders from the region have gathered in past years, and as many are expected to participate in this year’s gathering.
Paddling to the Potlatch
The Skagit Valley Herald quotes Billy Frank in a story about the canoe journey and potlatch at Lummi Nation:
Monday marked the beginning of a weeklong potlatch — an ancient tribal gathering that includes singing, dancing and inter-tribal treaty talks for dozens of coastal tribes from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska.
Tribal canoeists will camp in Mukilteo
Canoes traveling to the Lummi Indian Reservation on an annual tribal journey will stop at Mukilteo for the first time since the event began 18 years ago.