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The Swinomish Tribe and its constitution were established on January 27, 1936, following the Indian Reorganization Act of 1935, which encouraged tribes to reform their governments. [1] The Swinomish Tribe is governed by the Swinomish Senate, an 11 member, democratically-elected body. [2] [11] Senators serve staggered five-year terms.
The Swinomish Indian Reservation is the reservation of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, located on Fidalgo Island in western Washington state. The western boundary of the reservation is disputed between the Swinomish Tribe and the United States government. De facto, the reservation is around 15 square miles (39 km 2; 9,600 acres) in size ...
The descendants of Chadaskadim II include members of the Swinomish Reservation, as well as the historian Ruth Sehome Shelton from Tulalip, while the descendants of Sathill include other Swinomish residents such as the Sampson family. [4] Eventually, the Nuwhaha were pushed further inland by incursions from the Samish. [7]
May 18—SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY — Stop No. 29 for a 24-foot totem pole carved from a 400-year-old cedar tree was the Swinomish reservation on Monday morning. The totem pole's journey ...
The beginning of the pandemic was devasting for the leader of the indie rock band Black Belt Eagle Scout, Katherine Paul. “It’s not like I never do that stuff but it brought me back to a place ...
The Swinomish people (/ ˈ s w ɪ n ə m ɪ ʃ / SWIN-ə-mish; [3] Lushootseed: swədəbš [4]) are a Lushootseed-speaking people Indigenous to western Washington state.. The tribe lives in the southeastern part of Fidalgo Island in northern Puget Sound, near the San Juan Islands, in Skagit County, Washington.
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Matika Wilbur (born 1984), is a Native American photographer and educator from Washington state. [2] She is an enrolled citizen of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington and a descendant of the Swinomish people. [1] She is best known for her photography project, Project 562.