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On this day in history the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott was signed Today Lummi commemorates the signing of the treaty Today we share with our children and families what this means to us as Lummi people. Educate our people - Knowledge is Power A Treaty is an agreement between two sovereign nations A Treaty is the Supreme Law of the land Sovereign is supreme power or authority Reminder- Keep our people healthy and safe Thank you to the ones leading by example Save the Date 'Scuttlebutt with the Ch

Lummi Nation School students help release a fisher in the North Cascades Mountains. The students and the Lummi Blackhawk Singers, who can be heard in the background, were among dozens who witnessed the reintroduction of fishers to North Cascades National Park, near the site of an ancestral Upper Skagit Indian Tribe village. Fishers, members of the weasel family native to Washington state, were wiped out in the 1900s by overtrapping and habitat loss. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife