With traditional gear at the forefront, expanded fishery a hit
The Nisqually Indian Tribe expanded tribal fishing time on the river this fall by combining traditional fishing gear with recovery…
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Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe fishes river for the first time after dam removal
For the first time in more than a decade, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is exercising its treaty right to…
‘Great success’: Baker River sockeye reach record number
A record number of Baker River sockeye are making their way upriver this year. The fisheries co-managers—consisting of the Upper…
Tribe reviving traditional shellfish resources, management practices
As part of a growing effort to revive ancestral food stewardship practices, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community this spring invited…
This Coast Salish food staple is blooming again
Lavender-colored flowers blooming across prairie landscapes were once a beacon to the region’s Indigenous people that a bounty of root…
Subsistence fishery puts food in tribal members’ freezers
For just a few hours one morning in May, Lummi Nation tribal members in about a dozen aluminum boats took…
Treaty tree seedling planted on reservation
When representatives of nine tribes and bands of Indians signed the Treaty of Medicine Creek in 1854, a grove of…
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe to hold coho salmon fishery this fall
PORT ANGELES, Wash.–The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (Tribe), Olympic National Park (ONP), and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife…
Planting seeds for budding careers
In the coming years, when camas is flowering, trees are growing and strawberries are ripening on the banks of the…