The Kitsap Sun reported on the Suquamish-based Tana Stobs Canoe Family receiving an 800-year-old cedar tree from which a canoe will be carved. The group of tribal members from both the Suquamish and Port Gamble S’Klallam...
Read MoreThe Stillaguamish Tribe will celebrate the Festival of the River this weekend beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at River Meadows County Park, 20416 Jordan Road, east of Arlington. The Stillaguamish Festival of the River...
Read MoreLummi Nation master carver Felix Solomon has been studying traditional canoes for several years. When a 300-year-old cedar tree, buried for the last 100 years, was uncovered in the Stillaguamish watershed, the Stillaguamish...
Read MoreThe Stillaguamish Tribe celebrated its First Salmon Ceremony on Saturday. A highlight of the event was a shovel-nosed canoe, carved for the tribe from an old-growth cedar by Lummi Nation master carver Felix Solomon. The Daily...
Read MoreA canoe being carved for the Stillaguamish Tribe by Lummi Nation master carver Felix Solomon was steamed last week, to help it take its final shape. The Daily Herald has the story: LUMMI RESERVATION — The fire was ready. It was...
Read MoreThe Daily Herald reports on the first canoe being carved for the Stillaguamish Tribe in what is believed to be about 100 years. When the Stillaguamish Tribe suffered its diaspora before the turn of the last century, much was...
Read MoreA Stillaguamish tribal canoe is being carved for the first time in what is believed to be 100 years. Lummi master carver Felix Solomon is carving the canoe while teaching Stillaguamish carvers, fisheries manager Shawn Yanity and...
Read MoreThe canoe families from Washington and B.C. are starting to make their way toward Suquamish this week. To follow the landing dates, where canoes will be pulling into over the course of the next two weeks, go to...
Read MoreThe Olympian: More than 500 people stood on the pebbly beach, but thumping drums and ancient songs were the only sounds as four Squaxin Island tribal members carried one coin-bright chinook on a fern-draped cedar plate. A tribal...
Read MoreTAHOLAH (Aug. 30, 2002) — More than 5,000 people celebrated tradition and culture as they welcomed 20 canoes representing 23 Indian nations to Taholah in August. For those in the audience who watched and participated in...
Read MoreIf salmon are to be restored in this state, it will require many efforts. Most of all, it will require a team effort. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The state and the tribes must learn to work together....
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