Being Frank: Everyone Should Celebrate The Makah Whale Hunt
Special Note: Many of you have heard my words over the years. I hope you have learned to trust what I say, because I have always spoken the truth. I speak for the salmon, and try to build bridges of...
View ArticleMaintaining An Ancient Tradition, Upper Skagit Distribute Salmon To Elders
SEDRO-WOOLLEY (July 23, 2003) — The Upper Skagit Tribe has honored its elders, who continue to play a central role in the community, since before anyone can remember. While honoring elders takes many...
View ArticleQuilcene Coho Salmon Fishery Helps Sustain Tribes’ Way Of Life
QUILCENE (Aug. 12, 2003) – Each summer, fishermen are lured to one of the most popular fisheries in western Washington. The goal is the same for everyone: catch coho salmon making their way back to the...
View ArticleWho We Are
September 30, 2003 For many years, the tribes of the Pacific Northwest have advocated positive relations with the non-Indian community. It’s an historical fact that the footholds established by...
View ArticleCaring for the American Village
OLYMPIA (September 21, 2005) — When Katrina swept over the southern U.S., leaving tens of thousands of people homeless in its wake a few weeks ago, tribes across the country swung into gear to help...
View ArticleStep Forward for Puget Sound
OLYMPIA (January 26, 2006) — Today we know it as Puget Sound. For thousands of years, my ancestors have known it as the Wulge, or the Salish Sea. Whatever you call it, this magnificent estuary that...
View ArticleSuquamish Tribe challenges Bainbridge Island CAO
Kitsap Sun: The Suquamish Tribe wants the state to force Bainbridge Island to redraw its Critical Areas Ordinance, believing the measure falls short of protecting marine shorelines central to Native...
View ArticleNice profile on Stan Jones (Tulalip Tribes) in the Seattle Times
Especially this part that focusses on Jones’ efforts to revive their First Salmon Ceremony and habitat restoration: The tribal chairman also is credited with helping to revive Tulalip ceremonies and...
View ArticleBlackmouth health advisory coverage
Yesterday the state Department of Health release an advisory on eating blackmouth (resident) chinook. A couple of places covered the tribal angle pretty well. Seattle Times: The biggest impact from the...
View ArticleBellingham Herald: Efforts to aid Nooksack Salmon Reviewed
Bellingham Herald: With only 210 adult chinook salmon returning to the north and middle forks, and 120 returning to the south fork to spawn in 2005, fish managers are grappling with how to restore fish...
View ArticleThe Olympian: Nisqually River project a step forward
The Olympian has a great opinion piece this morning on the Nisqually River estuary project and how it relates the Puget Sound restoration: The reason several hundred politicians, tribal members,...
View ArticleThe Herald: Tulalips can hunt on firm’s property
The (Everett) Herald: TULALIP – Tens of thousands of acres of Western Washington wilderness is open to American Indian hunters, thanks to a new agreement between the Tulalip Tribes and a California...
View ArticleBeing Frank: A Tribute To Kenny Braget
A cattle rancher and a neighbor of mine in the Nisqually Watershed, Kenny lived the life of a steward. He proved the belief that actions speak louder than words. No one’s actions spoke louder than...
View ArticleBellingham Herald urges U.S., Canada to put fish first
A Bellingham Herald editorial: Things have deteriorated badly. Puget Sound chinook salmon stocks are listed for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. That includes Nooksack River chinook....
View ArticleSwinomish release results of shellfish study
The Seattle Times and Skagit Valley Herald (subscription required) reported on the results of the Swinomish Tribe’s study on toxics in their traditional shellfishing areas. Seattle Times: The study,...
View ArticleUpper Skagit Tribe returns to Whidbey Island for clam dig
Both the Skagit Valley Herald and the Whidbey News-Times reported on the Upper Skagit Tribe’s return to a traditional clam-digging site at NAS Whidbey Island. Security protocols since Sept. 11, 2001...
View ArticleWhale quota renewed for Makah
The Peninsula Daily News reported that the Makah Tribe’s whale quota was renewed for the next five years: “The Makah tribe Tuesday won renewal of its quota to kill up to 20 gray whales in the next five...
View ArticleSVH: Upper Skagit holds annual blessing
The Skagit Valley Herald (subscription required) covered the Upper Skagit Blessing of the Fleet: While the Skagit River flowed swiftly under the Highway 9 bridge Friday, Upper Skagit tribal members...
View ArticleTribal canoeists will camp in Mukilteo
The (Everett) Herald: Canoes traveling to the Lummi Indian Reservation on an annual tribal journey will stop at Mukilteo for the first time since the event began 18 years ago. Mukilteo Mayor Joe...
View ArticleReturn of the King
The (Everett) Herald has a story about the Tulalip Salmon Ceremony, and notes that the chinook run already has arrived: This Saturday, Tulalip tribal members will welcome Big Chief King Salmon, the...
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