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The Lummi Indian Reservation is situated on a peninsula east of the island, but it does not include Lummi Island. The island has a land area of 23.97 square kilometres (9.25 square miles ) and had a population of 822 as of the 2000 census .
The land on which Bellingham is located was ceded to European Americans by the local Native American tribes, including the Lummi (or Lhaq'temish) people, in the controversial Treaty of Point Elliott (1855). The Lummi people continue to live in the area, many of them on Lummi Peninsula across the bay from the present-day City of Bellingham.
The Lummi are part of the North Straits peoples, who are a group of related peoples in the San Juan Islands, as well as on parts of Vancouver and Fidalgo islands. [5] The Lummi were not a historically unified people. According to their oral history, the Lummi are composed of the descendants of the last Klalakamish and Swallah peoples.
Earle’s lawsuit also claims that the county has violated its own charter since 2011 by including the monthly real estate leasing costs the county pays to the Lummi Nation for the tidelands the ...
The crew on Riley Starks’ reef net fishing boat off Lummi Island pulled in about a dozen salmon in one catch, pulling about 75 fish total on Sept. 14, 2023. ... That’s a real adjustment ...
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 ...
Beach is an unincorporated community on Lummi Island in Whatcom County, ... History. A post office called Beach was established in 1882, ...
The 32 units will be funded by the largest federal grant ever received by the Lummi Nation Housing Authority. ‘Demand is always going to be there’: Affordable housing units planned for Lummi ...