SEATTLE — Seattle Indian Health Board and other Native organizations today applauded Seattle City Council for passing a resolution that acknowledges the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) crisis in Seattle, Continue reading
Construction continues on the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge, previously known as the Puyallup River Bridge. The Puyallup Tribe and the City of Tacoma celebrated the renaming on August 9, 2019. Continue reading
As thousands of hectares of tropical forest burn from wildfires in South America, Inuit across circumpolar nations in Alaska, Canada, Chukotka, and Greenland are expressing their solidarity with the Indigenous peoples living in the Amazon and their concern for the implications of these fires on the global climate system. Continue reading
Lummi Nation held a Sna’teng, a traditional naming ceremony, for the Southern Resident Killer Whale population on Thursday, August 22, on a beach at H’eT’atCh’L, an ancestral village site on Orcas Island. Traditional names connect family members to one another, to ancestors, to culture, and to spirit. In receiving the name Sk’aliCh’elh, the qwe’lhol’mechen (orcas) were affirmed as members of the Lummi family. Continue reading
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. announced Thursday that the tribe is taking an historic initial step to enact the Cherokee Nation’s treaty right to send a delegate to the U.S. Congress. Continue reading
