Friday, July 3, 2009

Lummi Nation helps celebrate FH's Centennial and July 4



















Lummi Nation Canoe off Shipyard Cove

from the Lummi Nation site:

We are Lummi. We are Coast Salish people with a rich history, culture and traditions. We are fishers, hunters, gatherers, and harvesters of nature's abundance. We envision our homeland as a place where we enjoy an abundant, safe, and healthy life in mind, body, society, environment, space, time and spirituality; where all are encouraged to succeed and none are left behind.

Related Journal of the San Juan's post by Richard Walker is HERE.

from the above article:

Canoes regularly plied the marine highway between the San Juan Islands and what is now Canada and mainland Washington state. Communities on the islands had different names then — p’kweekh-EEL-wuhlh, WH’LEHL-kluh, EH-leh-luhng, SMUH-yuh.

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