As brilliant sunshine gleams off the water, a roaring alder fire roasts king salmon to perfection. An outdoor barbecue to welcome in the weekend? Yes, but not just any barbecue: every Friday, Lummi Nation fisheries commissioners supply fish for elders at the tribe’s Little Bear Creek retirement center and assisted living facility. “We’ve got to […]

LUMMI (Dec. 2, 2002) – “Cultural sites like these are non-renewable resources,” says Lummi Nation Timber, Fish and Wildlife Technician Tom Edwards, motioning with his hand across the expanse of a forest along Lake Whatcom. Within a few acres from where Edwards is standing, Lummi tribal members have gathered tree bark for medicinal purposes and […]

LUMMI (March 29, 2002) — Lummi Nation hosted the first annual “Gathering for Salmon” — an event focused on economic recovery for Northwest fishing tribes — at their Wex Li Em community center on Feb. 19-20. Representatives of the Swinomish Tribe, Yakama Nation, Elwha Klallam Tribe, Muckleshoot Tribe and Shox-Ox-Homel, near Hope, B.C., joined with […]

HAMILTON (July 1, 2001) – Once, chinook and coho salmon ran in plentiful numbers through the South Fork of the Nooksack River. With Lummi Nation beginning construction of six logjams in the Larson