For years, the Lummi Youth Canoe Family helped connect Lummi Tribal members to their culture and other Pacific Northwest Indigenous communities by facilitating canoe journeys throughout the Salish Sea ...
LUMMI ISLAND, Wash. — The Lummi Nation is bringing back an ancestral tradition. The annual Lummi Nation Canoe Journey made a stop at Lummi Island at Legoe Bay on Friday. It was the last leg of their ...
A traditional voyage is underway in Western Washington, and this year, it’s something not seen since the 1800s. This came as part of the Lummi Nation’s Gathering of the Eagles, spanning nine days of ...
Tribes as far as Alaska gathered for the paddle, with about 112 canoes making the voyage from Lummi to Muckleshoot. SALISH SEA — Dozens of tents lined the beach Sunday in Lummi Nation, the smell of ...
SALISH SEA — Dozens of tents lined the beach Sunday in Lummi Nation, the smell of saltwater and seaweed wafting off the waves. Members of Coast Salish tribes roused from their sleeping bags around 9 a ...
When the Xw’lemi Outrigger Racing Association (or XORA for short) met for the first time in September 2024, it had six members. By its next practice, that number had doubled. “Posted (it) to social ...
Several canoes made their way through rain and choppy water Monday to complete a journey from the Lummi Reservation to the shores of the Fidalgo Bay Resort. A chorus of chants and drums rang out from ...
SEATTLE — The annual Canoe Journey is making its return to Washington this year after a hiatus of four years. About 100 canoes landed in Suquamish in front of the Tribe’s House of Awakened Culture on ...