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 Everett Herald on the Stillaguamish Tribe's south fork Stilluagmish chinook broodstock program: Stillaguamish tribal biologists are planning DNA tests for each fingerling to determine whether they are male or…
For the second year, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians was able to open a limited ceremonial and subsistence fishery for elders on spring chinook. The two day fishery was open…
From the Tacoma Weekly:
Fishermen – tribal, commercial and sports – around the south Puget Sound area could be receiving more bad news if a proposal to close the 90-year-old Voights Creek Hatchery is approved in the state’s final budget later this month.
While recent statements from state wildlife officials and Puyallup Tribe officials working on plans to save the hatchery reflect cautious optimism that the hatchery might yet survive, there is plenty of concern to go around – in all quarters of the fishing industry – if it doesn’t.
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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…)
From the Olympian: A vulgar graffiti message scrawled on the upstream side of the Old Pacific Highway bridge across the Nisqually River is a sign that racism hasn't died out…
This report is an overview of the natural resources management activities of the treaty tribes in western Washington. The tribes and their Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission are active in all…
The (Everett) Herald reported on plans for tribal canoes to measure water quality throughout the region during the Canoe Journey this summer: Canoes traveling on five or six of the…
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.…