Canoes land at historic treaty site
The Seattle P-I and (Everett) Herald covered the canoe landing yesterday in Mukilteo: The Seattle P-I: Long canoes built in…
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Tribes to gather at treaty site
The Seattle Times and the P-I both reported on a historic gathering of the Point Elliott Treaty tribes tomorrow in…
Canoeists complete leg in trip to Lummi
The Bellingham Herald and The Olympian have stories about the Paddle to Lummi: The Bellingham Herald: PORT ANGELES — Tribal…
Lummi to host historic meeting of the nations
Indian Country Today: The Lummi Indian Nation has volunteered to host a historic meeting July 31 – Aug 2 between…
Paddle to Lummi coverage
The Bellingham Herald has a webpage dedicated to coverage of the upcoming canoe journey, hosted this year by the Lummi…
Being Frank: Don’t Wave Goodbye
OLYMPIA (August 7, 2006) Thousands of fishermen took to Lake Washington recently to fish for sockeye – arguably the most prized salmon in the Northwest. More than 50,000 sockeye were harvested by treaty tribal and non-Indian fishermen in the Lake Washington fishery. It was a thing of beauty to see this harvest accompanied by more than a hundred traditional tribal cedar canoes gliding through the lake, the culmination of the annual canoe journey hosted this year by the Muckleshoot Tribe.
The canoes opened many eyes to the long-practiced traditions of the tribes in the Pacific Northwest. So did the sockeye fishery, which must be credited to another long-practiced tradition – cooperation.