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May 2012

Duwamish-Muckleshoot-Suquamish: Investigators to take new look at health effects of river cleanup - Before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency submits its proposed cleanup plan for the Duwamish River Superfund site later this year, community health researchers are conducting a “health impact assessment” to figure out ways the cleanup could affect surrounding communities. The tribes involved are the Duwamish, the Muckleshoot and the Suquamish.


April 2012

Duwamish: Tribal Chair's granddaughter gives river clean-up presentation for Earth Day - Earth Day at the Duwamish Longhouse Cultural Center Saturday, April 21, featured a presentation by two teens, including the granddaughter of Cecile Hansen, Chairwoman of the Duwamish Tribe. Alyssa Williams, 14, lives with her mother Cindy in Tukwila, and Cindy's mother, Cecile, Alyssa's grandmother, lives in Burien.


March 2012

Duwamish: Duwamish Waterway health study underway to inform EPA’s final cleanup plan for the Superfund site - The study will also look at “the nutritional and cultural impact of fish contamination on Tribes and other fishing communities, gentrification pressures on local businesses and neighborhoods, and opportunities for local economic stimulus and redevelopment.”


February 2012

Duwamish: Tribe Gala, Dinner & Art Auction - YOU ARE INVITED to join the Duwamish Tribal Services for their Sixth Annual Gala Dinner & Art Auction. This annual event is a celebration of contemporary and traditional culture of Seattle's First People, the Duwamish or "People of the Inside". Your gifts will help maintain operations at the Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center and fund events and programs for our youth.

Duwamish: Here's a chance to help restore Puget Creek and the Sanislo Wetland - Puget Creek Watershed Alliance is working to be good upstream neighbors to the Duwamish Tribe to support their efforts to daylight Puget Creek and restore salmon habitat near the Longhouse and Cultural Center in West Seattle.

Duwamish: Native visual & musical art grace the Longhouse Saturday - Two events took place Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center, one beginning at 4:00PM, the other at 6:00PM. 4:00 PM: Duwamish Longhouse Art Gallery Opening for "Peter Boome: Salish Connections." The gallery show features the paintings and prints of the nationally acclaimed Upper Skagit artist. Through June 16th. Then Paul "Che oke ten" Wagner told Native American stories and performed on a drum and his flutes, selections from his new album, "TIME OF PARADISE".

Duwamish: Native visual & musical art events at Longhouse Saturday, Feb. 11 - Two events will take place this Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center. We welcome you to both events, one beginning at 4:00PM, the other at 6:00PM. 4:00 PM: Duwamish Longhouse Art Gallery Opening for "Peter Boome: Salish Connections." 6:00 p.m.: Paul "Che oke ten" Wagner: TIME OF PARADISE--Native American Flute--Free

Duwamish: Introduction to Native Flute Workshop - Learn the basics. Play from the heart. No need to read music. Teacher is award winning Native American Flute Player and Storyteller Paul "Che oke ten" Wagner.


December 2011

Duwamish: Old Juanita Steamer Dock - Lowering Lake Washington eliminated aboriginal use of Juanita Bay. Long before people of European origin arrived, a band of today’s Duwamish tribe, the TAHB-Tah-Byook, lived in a village near the mouth of Juanita Creek, and here in the bay dug wapato bulbs, a nutritious, starchy staple, and no doubt hunted waterfowl. Smallpox that ravaged native peoples on the early 1800s, likely introduced by early Spanish explorers, apparently eliminated this band. But Native Americans are reported to have continued to stop at Juanita Bay to harvest wapato seasonally until the lake was lowered.


November 2011

Duwamish: Gift fair at the longhouse

Duwamish: Reclaiming the Duwamish River: A Conversation With James Rasmussen

Duwamish-Suquamish: Seattle's bounty of attractions beckons Whatcom visitors

Duwamish: $100,000 for healthier Duwamish River-area communities

 
American Indian Politics and the American Political System (Spectrum Series: Race and Ethnicity in National and Global Politics): The third edition contains a number of important modifications. First, it is now co-authored by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, who brings a spirited new voice to the study. Second, it contains ample discussion of how President Obama’s election has altered the dynamics of Indian Country politics and law. Third, it contains more discussion of women's issues, several new vignettes, an updated timeline, new photographs, and updated charts, tables, and figures.
 
 
 


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