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Fishermen on one of several reef net fishing boats anchored off Lummi Island pull their nets to catch salmon on Sept. 14, 2023. Reef net fishing is considered one of the most sustainable fish ...
The U.S. government will invest $240 million in salmon and steelhead hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest to boost declining fish populations and support the treaty-protected fishing rights of ...
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. Each tribe will receive at least $2 ...
Celilo Falls. Celilo Falls (Wyam, meaning "echo of falling water" or "sound of water upon the rocks," in several native languages) was a tribal fishing area on the Columbia River, just east of the Cascade Mountains, on what is today the border between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. The name refers to a series of cascades and ...
The Tsimshian (/ ˈsɪmʃiən / SIM-shee-ən), translated as "People Inside the Skeena River," are indigenous people who live around Terrace and Prince Rupert on the North Coast of British Columbia, and the southernmost corner of Alaska on Annette Island. There are about 10,000 Tsimshian, of whom about 1,300 live in Alaska.
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.
A federal grant will allow Lummi Nation biologists to conduct habitat restoration in the Nooksack River basin and study how that affects Chinook salmon egg-to-fry survival. Lummi Nation is ...
The Lummi Reservation is the Indian reservation of the Lummi Nation. Established in 1855, it was intended to serve as the reservation for the Lummi, Nooksack, and Samish peoples, as well as several other local peoples. Originally, the reservation was 12,562.94 acres, however it was enlarged to 13,600 acres in 1877. [4]