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…
Tag: Stewardship
Health of Port Susan Bay at risk
The (Everett) Heraldreports: Two local American Indian tribes want to add an extra layer of protection for the Western sandpipers,…
The Healing Path
There is only one path that leads to the healing of Puget Sound, and it is one that we all must walk together.
Puget Sound is sick. It’s becoming filled with poison and starved of oxygen. The eelgrass and other plants that support life in the Sound are dying. Orcas and salmon are not far behind.
Tulalip Tribes help celebrate protection of marine environment
From the San Juan Islander: Artwork, celebrating the anniversary of the Marine Stewardship Area and the 10th anniversary of the…
It Takes More Than Words
OLYMPIA (May 20, 2005) — Governor Gregoire says the state and the tribes have far to go in their government-to-government…
Being Frank: At The Confluence Of The Centuries
The confluence of the centuries should be like the joining of two rivers. As they merge, the memories of countless moments and places
should fold one unto another, and form a deeper, broader flow of
knowledge.
As the 19th Century merged into the 20th, my father was a young man. He lived his whole life on the Nisqually River. He was born in a wooden longhouse to parents who had lived on the same river throughout their lives. The heritage of the Nisqually has been passed from generation to generation for thousands of years. As my father
grew, he learned to fish, hunt and gather everything from cedar bark to a multitude of wild fruits and vegetables. He learned the legacies of stewardship.