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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 war canoes measuring up to fifty feet.
Participants in the Paddle to Squaxin, 2012 Canoes during the 2014 Qatuwas Festival The Intertribal Canoe Journey is a celebrated event of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast . Organizers call it the Canoe Journey or Intertribal Canoe Journey, and colloqually Tribal Journeys.
Ellie Kinley, a member of the Lummi (Lhaq’temish) Nation, stands on her fishing boat in Bellingham Bay’s Squalicum Harbor on Nov. 17, 2023.
For the Lummi Nation, the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855, now honored each Jan. 22, is the most important and powerful agreement in the world. It secured for the Lummi people the right to healthcare ...
The Lummi also fought to restore the hold over the land on their reservation, and revitalize it in other ways. The Lummi Nation reacquired around 10 percent of reservation land into trust, and in the 1980s, the Lummi Nation opened a restaurant-boating complex, processing plant, and several education facilities. [11]
Improving water inputs to the yearling ponds to increase aeration for the fish. Lummi tribal members cast their net to fish on the Nooksack River on Aug. 21, 2024, near Bellingham, Wash.
Lummi people, a Coast Salish people located in western Washington state Lummi Nation , a federally-recognized tribe primarily composed of Lummis Lummi dialect , the dialect of North Straits Salish spoken by the Lummi
Lummi Island resident Peter G. Earle filed a lawsuit in mid-April seeking to stop the ferry rate increase from taking effect.