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A reef net fishing rig is anchored off Lummi Island on Sept. 14, 2023. The practice is an ancient Indigenous salmon fishing tradition that has been separated from the tribes due to colonialism ...
Lummi Indian Business Council Secretary Lisa Wilson looks at the salmon making their way into the Skookum Creek Fish Hatchery on Aug. 21, 2024, near Acme, Wash.
The Lummi ceded their lands, roughly 107,000 acres, [8] to the United States, in return for guaranteed hunting and fishing rights, as well as retaining reservation lands as established in the treaty. The treaty established the Lummi Reservation , to which the Lummi and several other local peoples (including the Nooksack and Samish) were ...
The Gateway Pacific Terminal was a proposed export terminal at Cherry Point (Lummi: Xwe’chi’eXen) in Whatcom County, Washington, along the Salish Sea shoreline. It was announced in 2011 and would have exported coal, but was opposed by local residents and the Lummi Nation, who had an ancestral village site at Cherry Point.
Lummi Nation is receiving $9.8 million for its South Fork Nooksack watershed project, part of more than $32 million awarded last week to Indigenous tribes in Washington state to fight the effects ...
The first Lummi potlatch since 1937 was hosted in 2007. [4] For the Lummi nation, canoes are a large part of their culture. Each year in June, the Lummi Nation hosts the Lummi Stommish Water Carnival, which features large canoe race, as well as having dancing and traditional gambling games. Tribes from Washington and British Columbia compete in ...