231 results for: Northwest Coast Native Peoples
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Cecilia and George White welcoming visitors at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, March 8, 1985
On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:2000.107.178.14.01
Date:1985
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Judge Kathleen Bishop outside the Nisqually Tribe Community Church where she holds court, 1977
Kathleen L. Bishop Turner (1915-1978), a member of the Snohomish Tribe, was active in Native American affairs throughout her life, following in the footsteps of her father, Senator William Bishop, who was the first Native American to serve in the Washington State Legislature. She devoted most of her live to the preservation and promotion of Native American traditions and culture.…
ID Number:2000.107.19770420.1.38
Date:1977
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S'Klallam tribe canoe leaving Port Gamble, June 13, 1993
In the summer of 1989, seventeen tribes from around Puget Sound and the Washington coast participated in the first Tribal Canoe Journey, known as the Paddle to Seattle. Part of the Washington State Centennial celebration, the journey celebrated Native maritime history, specifically the history of canoe travel across the region. Each canoe “family” started from their home and stopped at…
ID Number:2000.107.19930613.1.22
Date:1993
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S'Klallam woman Melody Fulton sitting in canoe, June 13, 1993
In the summer of 1989, seventeen tribes from around Puget Sound and the Washington coast participated in the first Tribal Canoe Journey, known as the Paddle to Seattle. Part of the Washington State Centennial celebration, the journey celebrated Native maritime history, specifically the history of canoe travel across the region. Each canoe “family” started from their home and stopped at…
ID Number:2000.107.19930613.2.20
Date:1993
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S'Klallam tribe canoe leaving Port Gamble, June 13, 1993
In the summer of 1989, seventeen tribes from around Puget Sound and the Washington coast participated in the first Tribal Canoe Journey, known as the Paddle to Seattle. Part of the Washington State Centennial celebration, the journey celebrated Native maritime history, specifically the history of canoe travel across the region. Each canoe “family” started from their home and stopped at…
ID Number:2000.107.19930613.2.31
Date:1993
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Paddlers in S'Klallam tribe canoe, Port Gamble, June 13, 1993
In the summer of 1989, seventeen tribes from around Puget Sound and the Washington coast participated in the first Tribal Canoe Journey, known as the Paddle to Seattle. Part of the Washington State Centennial celebration, the journey celebrated Native maritime history, specifically the history of canoe travel across the region. Each canoe “family” started from their home and stopped at…
ID Number:2000.107.19930613.2.33
Date:1993
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Lummi carvers Verne Johnson Jr. (Tsow-sum) and Ken Cooper working on totem pole, October 21, 1993
This image shows Lummi carver Verne Johnson, Jr. (1952-1994), named Tsow-sum in the Lummi language, working on an 8-foot totem pole. Ken Cooper, also a Lummi carver, stands behind him. The pole was a gift from the city of Ferndale, Washington (near the Lummi reservation) to its sister city of Miyoshi-mura in Japan. Johnson was a graduate of the Lummi…
ID Number:2000.107.19931021.1.23
Date:1993
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Doreen and Ben Nathan studying at the Seattle Indian Center, December 21, 1993
The Seattle Indian Center was founded in 1958 to provide assistance to people in need, especially Indigenous people cut off from their families and cultures. In addition to educational programs, the Center also has a food bank, shelters, and offers community outreach services. This image shows Doreen Nathan (Tsimshian) and her son Ben Nathan studying at the Seattle Indian Center,…
ID Number:2000.107.19931221.15.23
Date:1993
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Dustin Williams holding traditional talking stick at Nelson Mandela welcoming ceremony, Seattle, December 8, 1999
In December 1999, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça Machel visited Seattle a few months after Mandela left office as president of South Africa. Their visit was intended to raise money for their charitable organizations. In addition to meeting with prominent philanthropists, Mandela and Machel addressed students at Seattle University, spoke at a world health conference at the University of…
ID Number:2000.107.19991208.1.23
Date:1999
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Mike Evans (Snohomish) wearing a traditional cedar hat, Redondo Beach, August 2002
Seattle celebrated the sesquicentennial of its 1852 founding in 2002. On August 31, the commemoration ended with The Spirit Returns, a group of 15 tribal canoes from Washington and British Columbia that paddled along West Seattle starting at Seacrest Boathouse. Their destination, Terminal 107 Park, was the location of Chief Seattle’s childhood home and the proposed site of the Duwamish…
ID Number:2000.107.20020822.CD01.01.001
Date:2002