City of Edmonds - Washington

Websites and Facebook Pages of Coast Salish Peoples Most Associated with Edmonds

Tulalip Tribes
The Tulalip Tribes of Washington is located on the Tulalip Reservation near Everett. The Tulalip Reservation is 22,000 acres, where over half of its 4,000 members live. They operate many enterprises such as Tulalip Resort Casino and Quil Ceda Village. www.tulaliptribes-nsn.gov

Tulalip News: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=tulalip%20news

Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe

The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe has over 1,200 members and a reservation along Port Gamble Bay near Hood Canal. The Noo-Kayet Development Corporation is an agency of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe and is responsible for economic development and established economic enterprises. Noo-Kayet’s mission is to advance the long-term economic interest of the tribal community.

Website: www.pgst.nsn.us
News: https://www.facebook.com/PortGambleSklallams

Snoqualmie Tribe

The Snoqualmie Tribe is made up of approximately 650 members. The Snoqualmie are also known as the Snoqualmu, Snoqualmoo, Snoqualmick, Snoqualamuke, or Snuqualmi. Their autonym is Sduk-al-bixw, meaning “strong people of status”. The people have lived in the Puget Sound region since time immemorial.

Suquamish Tribe - Place of the Clear Salt Water

The Suquamish Tribe is located on the Port Madison Indian Reservation in North Kitsap County, ancestral people of Chief Sealth, after whom Seattle was named. The tribe’s economic development agency, Port Madison Enterprises, is the second-largest private-sector employer in Kitsap County with over 750 employees.

Washington Tribes

Northwest Treaty Tribes

Land Acknowledgment & Building Relationship

History Links for Edmonds and Surrounding Communities

Edmonds Museum:
https://historicedmonds.org/honoring-coastal-salish-people/

Tulalip Tribes Hibulb Cultural Center & Natural History Preserve History Videos: https://www.hibulbculturalcenter.org/Explore/Videos/

Indigenous People in the Edmonds Area (Edmonds Waterfront Center Video)
With Dennis E. Lewarch, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Archaeology and Historic Preservation Department, Suquamish Tribe (click the image below to view the video)

Between Two Worlds: Experiences at the Tulalip Boarding School 1905-1932
https://www.hibulbculturalcenter.org/Base/File/HCC-PDF-Explore-AboutTulalipPeople-BetweenTwoWorlds

Educational & Event Opportunities:

Lushootseed Language Tutorials

https://tulaliplushootseed.com

Indigenous Food & Plant Usage Resources -

Edmonds College Cultural Kitchen - Campus Community Farm https://www.edmonds.edu/campuscommunityfarm/cultural-kitchen.html

The Cultural Kitchen is an active learning space in the Campus Community Farm designed to highlight the connection between people and food. It is home to a Coast Salish pit oven, a 37” cob oven, fire pit, cedar plank roofs and cedar seating. Examples of activities at the Cultural Kitchen include salmon and clam bakes, pizza parties, cultural cooking demonstrations, lectures, gatherings, and green construction service-learning projects.

The Cultural Kitchen’s inspiration came from the Native American Student Association’s request for a place on campus to host salmon bakes. The Anthropology Department has designed and managed the construction of the space. The Snoqualmie, Snohomish and Samish Tribes along with students and faculty from English, Engineering, Horticulture, Construction Industry Training at Lynnwood.

High School and the Monroe Correctional Facility, and the Interdisciplinary Studies Environmental Program at Scriber Lake High School have all contributed to the project. Laurie Ross, Edmonds College alumnus, Ardi Kveven, ORCA - Everett CC, and Pamela Bond-Coello, Snohomish Tribe, donated cedar trees that the Snoqualmie Tribe milled, also through donation.

Reviving traditional Coast Salish food knowledge - Excerpt from the Salish Bounty exhibit created by the Burke Museum in 2012:

Enormous changes came to Coast Salish diet and culture beginning in the 1850s. Non-Indian settlers rapidly altered ecosystems and restricted access to lands and waters, making it increasingly hard for Coast Salish people to collect traditional foods. The reservation system was supposed to replace this loss, but instead it imposed new foods poorly suited to Native people’s nutritional and cultural needs. Coast Salish people struggled to adapt and keep alive the cultural values that have always guided how and what is good to eat. That struggle continues to this day. https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/reviving-traditional-coast-salish-food-knowledge

PDF List of Traditional Coast Salish Foods: https://www.burkemuseum.org/sites/default/files/2019-07/reviving_traditional_food_knowledge.pdf

Roots of Wisdom - Native Knowledge. Shared Science: Learn how the Tulalip Tribes are reconnecting to traditional native foods and medicine.
https://omsi.edu/exhibitions/row/meet-the-communities/tulalip

From UW Medicine 2019 article Food for Thought - Revitalizing Indigenous Knowledge about Healthy Eating: http://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/news/article/food-for-thought-revitalizing-indigenous-knowledge-about-healthy-eating

Recipes

Nettle Pesto: From the Burk Museum’s Tribal Liaison, Polly Olsen (Yakama)

https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/how-make-nettle-pesto

The University of Washington's American Indian Studies Department, the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House, and Na'ah Illahee Fund's “Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Indigenous Foods" Symposium official site.
https://www.facebook.com/UWLivingBreath

Port Gamble S’Klallam Foundation Heronswoood Garden
Heronswood Garden offers plant classes on regional and cultural plants:
https://www.sklallamfoundation.org/heronswood-regional-and-cultural-plants-classes/

Indigenous Seedkeepers Network:
The mission of the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network is to nourish and assist the growing Seed Sovereignty Movement across Turtle Island ( North America). We are a project of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. As a national network, we leverage resources and cultivate solidarity and communication within the matrix of regional grass-roots tribal seed sovereignty projects. We accomplish this mission by providing educational resources, mentorship training, outreach and advocacy support on seed policy issues, and organizing national and regional events and convenings to connect many communities who are engaging in this vital work. We aim to create a collaborative framework and declaration for ethical seed stewardship and indigenous seed guidelines for tribal communities to guide them as they protect their seeds from patenting and bio-piracy. We support the creation of solutions oriented programs for adaptive resilient seed systems within tribal communities to enhance the creative capacity to continue to evolve as the face of our Mother Earth changes. https://www.facebook.com/indigenousseedkeepersnetwork

Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance - NAFSA
Promoting Indigenous culturally diversity for future generations by collecting, growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants.
https://nativefoodalliance.org/our-programs-2/indigenous-seedkeepers-network/
https://www.facebook.com/nativefoodalliance

Snoqualimie Tribe Ancestral Land Movement
https://www.facebook.com/SnoqualmieTribeAncestralLandsMovement/

Through education and awareness individuals can integrate land acknowledgement and respect for the Snoqualmie Tribe into their recreational practices and experiences.

Support Local Native Artists & Businesses:

Woolanders Ep. 27: Salish Cedar Canoes
Featuring Ed Carriere, Suquamish elder and master basket maker

Stillaguamish Salmon Ceremony

Canoe Journey 2017: Catching Songs from Suquamish

Books

Haboo - Native American Stories from Puget Sound

https://www.amazon.com/Haboo-Native-American-Stories-Puget/dp/0295962704

Sno-Isle Libraries - Indigenous history Month for Kids Collection

https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1482869309_vsieb/1665421930_indigenous_history_month_for_kids

Seattle Public Library Collection - Coast Salish Stories for Children and Teens

https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/list/share/202851054/1287778157

Podcasts

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Matriarch Movement

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