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…
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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…
Lummi hatchery hard at work amidst second year of South Fork die-offs
For the second year in a row, chinook salmon are going belly up in the South Fork Nooksack River before…
Tribal nonprofit educates community about traditional resources
Led by Nooksack tribal member Jenny Roberts, a group of mostly tribal members ventured into the tribe’s forested homelands near…
Squaxin Island Tribe Gains Access to Ancestral Lands
For generations, the people of the Squaxin Island Tribe lived near the waters of the seven southernmost inlets of the…
Traditional Foods Program Expands with Tidal Seafood Garden
Standing in ankle-deep mud on Sequim Bay, Jamestown tribal citizen Mackenzie Grinnell slams a double-faced sledgehammer on top of an 18-inch long PVC pipe, driving…