Indian Tribes
Pages for the history books
Diane Janes has been collecting tribal photos for years
Date: 05/23/2013 | Local News
Tulalip Tribes' cultural director lived for preservation
TULALIP -- Hank Gobin lived to see his dream come true: the creation of a museum to serve as the focal point of local tribal history and culture.Gobin, 71, cultural resources director for the Tulalip Tribes, passed away Thursday -- a little more than 1½ years after...
Date: 05/02/2013 | Local News
Chairman gives upbeat State of Tribes address
TULALIP -- Mel Sheldon wanted his State of the Tulalip Tribes speech to be educational, informative and leave those who listened to it with a better understanding of the Tulalip Tribes.
Date: 04/27/2013 | Local News
Gregoire sided with Boeing on water quality rules
Entering her final year in office, former Gov. Chris Gregoire found herself in a difficult spot: Indian tribes, powerful supporters of the governor, wanted stricter water pollution rules. The current regulations mean tribal members, along with sport fishermen and some other Washington...
Date: 04/24/2013 | Local News
Tulalip time capsule
Tribal museum features work of early photographers
Date: 04/15/2013 | Local News
State facing $1.9 billion bill for new culverts
In 1978, North Creek -- which originates in south Everett and runs south to Lake Washington -- was teeming with chinook, coho and sockeye salmon, along with steelhead and cutthroat trout."The fish were so thick you could literally walk across their backs during the spawning...
Date: 04/09/2013 | Local News
Keeping a language alive
Tulalip parents learn Lushootseed to pass it on to kids
Date: 03/31/2013 | Local News
Packing house, moving on
Forced to leave Tulalip land, residents preserve home
Date: 03/29/2013 | Local News
Ruling gives Duwamish Tribe shot at recognition
SEATTLE -- The Duwamish Tribe of Seattle has another shot at gaining federal recognition after a federal judge ruled in the tribe's favor.
Date: 03/26/2013 | Northwest
Tribes win power to prosecute non-Indians
WASHINGTON -- Congress on Thursday gave Indian tribes new power to prosecute non-Indians in tribal courts for any crimes linked to domestic violence.
Date: 03/01/2013 | Nation & World
Tribes, cable groups protest plan for tidal-power project
EVERETT -- While a federal study recently gave an environmental OK to the Snohomish County Public Utility District's plan to try out two tidal power turbines, some don't agree with the conclusion.Three Indian tribes, a cable...
Date: 02/19/2013 | Local News
Tribal survivors of rape gather to ‘lift our sisters up’
Courageously she stood, a blanket around her shoulders. Roxanne Chinook wasn't alone in the Tulalip Tribes' Hibulb Cultural Center Longhouse.
Date: 02/15/2013 | Local News
Time runs out on leases
Decades-long residents must leave cabins (gallery)
Date: 02/15/2013 | Local News
Documentary crew to visit Tulalip
A French film crew plans to visit the Tulalip Indian Reservation next week to work on a short documentary and conduct interviews regarding the reauthorization efforts there for the Violence Against Women Act.Tulalip officials last year, including...
Date: 02/07/2013 | Sirens
Tribe donates patrol car to Granite Falls
A new squad car is rolling around Granite Falls, thanks to a donation from the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians.Granite Falls police have been hurting for cars for a long time now. It didn't help when one of...
Date: 01/31/2013 | Sirens
Meet up with Stilly River’s bald eagles for 2-day festival
ARLINGTON -- The Skagit River's bald eagles get plenty of attention, but the Stillaguamish River watershed also supports one of the largest populations of wintering bald eagles in the lower 48 states.
Date: 01/30/2013 | Local News
Super Kid: Brian Blatchford
Tulalip Heritage student hopes to join Coast Guard
Date: 01/28/2013 | Life
Tulalips screen film about American Indian jazz great
Jim Pepper was known for pioneering the fusion jazz movement as well as being the kind of musical innovator who blended jazz with American Indian music.
Date: 01/26/2013 | Life
MicroGreen to hire 200
Tribe's $5 million investment helping Arlington company
Date: 01/10/2013 | Business
Tulalips’ $10,000 grant bolsters juvenile drug court
EVERETT -- Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Bruce Weiss doesn't expect the kids in drug court to tell him everything.He also knows that many of them need to speak up or they're won't get clean and sober.
Date: 12/24/2012 | Local News
Cantwell to chair Senate Indian Affairs committee
TULALIP -- Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is poised to take on the chairmanship of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
Date: 12/17/2012 | Local News
562 tribes, one photographer
Tulalip woman starts journey to show Indians as they are
Date: 11/25/2012 | Local News
Petroglyph thefts stun tribe
BISHOP, Calif. -- Ancient hunters and gatherers etched vivid petroglyphs on cliffs in the Eastern Sierra that withstood winds, flash floods and earthquakes for more than 3,500 years. Thieves needed only a few hours to cut them down and haul them away.
Date: 11/23/2012 | Nation & World
Documentary spotlights tribal traffic successes
The Washington Traffic Safety Commission recently won an award for a documentary they made about traffic-safety improvements on the Colville Indian Reservation.
Date: 11/21/2012 | Sirens
A place to gather and heal
Tulalips, Providence partner to transform waiting room
Date: 11/16/2012 | Local News
Exhibit explores native food traditions
The trend of buying, cooking and eating locally grown food is going native with a new exhibit that explores the renewal of local native food traditions.
Date: 10/31/2012 | Life
Company's fines help fund Snohomish estuary restoration
MARYSVILLE -- Fines that landscaping and construction-materials company Pacific Topsoils paid last year for environmental violations on Smith Island have been put to use to restore part of the Snohomish River estuary.
Date: 10/31/2012 | Local News
A natural answer
Tribe's nursery’s native plants key to habitat projects
Date: 10/27/2012 | Local News
Tulalip art to grace county park
TULALIP -- The Snohomish County Arts Commission plans to dedicate a new work of public art by James Madison at noon on Saturday at Kayak Point Regional Park, 15610 Marine Drive, south of Stanwood.
Date: 10/19/2012 | Local News
Times have changed
Marsville Pilchuck may change its Tomahawk mascot name
Date: 10/07/2012 | Local News
Tulalip health clinic renamed to honor dedicated leader
TULALIP -- In the early 1980s, Karen Fryberg got laid off from her job at the Tulalip health clinic.Now the clinic is named for her.
Date: 09/20/2012 | Local News
Arlington's natural wonder
Old farm is now a park and wetland that cleans stormwater
Date: 09/15/2012 | Local News
State, Tulalips join to save salmon
TULALIP -- After several years of negotiations, the Tulalip Tribes and the state have reached an agreement for joint management of hatchery Chinook salmon aimed at rebuilding stocks of the threatened species.
Date: 09/03/2012 | Local News
A home for Tulalip history
Celebration marks anniversary of Hibulb cultural center
Date: 08/16/2012 | Local News
Halting slide of lampreys
Tribes, biologists work to protect important fish
Date: 08/14/2012 | Local News
Tribes ask for action on climate change
WASHINGTON -- Climate change is sweeping indigenous villages into the sea in Alaska, flooding the taro fields of native Hawaiians and devastating the salmon population from which Indian tribes in Washington state draw their livelihood, tribal leaders testified Thursday at a Senate hearing.
Date: 07/20/2012 | Nation & World
Salmon survival plummets
Northwest tribes press government to take more control
Date: 07/14/2012 | Local News
Carver of tribes’ canoes to speak at Smithsonian
The story of the return of shovel-nose dugout river canoe for the Stillaguamish and Sauk-Suiattle tribes is scheduled to be told in Washington, D.C., next week at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
Date: 07/13/2012 | Local News
A wise elder of the human tribe is mourned
The world is a poorer place with the July 1 passing of Donna Cooper.
Date: 07/13/2012 | Need to Know
Cedar Grove asks to release phosphorus into slough
EVERETT -- Cedar Grove Composting is asking permission from the state to release an unlimited amount of phosphorus -- a substance that in large amounts can harm fish -- into Steamboat Slough from its plant on Smith Island.
Date: 07/02/2012 | Local News
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