Living • Real events and organizations only
The cork board by the coffee pot, transcribed. Everything pinned here is real, which is why this page exists.
On the water
Stommish Water Festival, Lummi Nation, each June, running since 1946. War canoe races set by the tides, the oldest gathering of its kind in these waters. lummistommish.com
Tribal Canoe Journeys, the summer journeys revived from the 1989 Paddle to Seattle. Hosting rotates among nations, and landings with their protocols are public. Watch your host nation’s announcements for each year’s route.
Places that hold the work
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham. More than a hundred Coast Salish baskets, with a strong virtual exhibit if you cannot make it in person. whatcommuseum.org
Burke Museum, Seattle. Coast Salish art and a tribal advisory board doing repatriation work worth knowing about. burkemuseum.org
Suquamish Museum, Suquamish. The people of Chief Seattle, the story of Old Man House, and the House of Awakened Culture nearby. suquamishmuseum.org
Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center, West Seattle. The city’s first people, in a longhouse on their own river. duwamishtribe.org
s’gʷi gʷi ʔ altxʷ, House of Welcome, The Evergreen State College, Olympia. The first longhouse on a public college campus in the United States. evergreen.edu/longhouse
The art, living
Salish Weave Collection, the collection built to support artists reviving Coast Salish design, with works now in public galleries across two countries. salishweave.com
coastsalish.art, structured Coast Salish design education for verified Coast Salish tribal members. Our sibling site, one door down. coastsalish.art
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