182 results for: Coast Salish Peoples
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Swinomish drummer and singer at the Treaty Day observance, January 22, 1939
The Swinomish are a Coast Salish group whose historic lands were in the Skagit and Samish River valleys as well as Whidbey, Camano, Fidalgo Islands, and the San Juan Islands. They lived in large permanent villages during the winter, then spread out in spring and summer to gather resources – salmon from the rivers, shellfish from the coastline, cedar wood…
ID Number:PI23822
Date:1939
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George and Mary Adams standing outside their home, Port Gamble Reservation, February 1939
In February 1939, the representatives of the Port Gamble band of the Clallam (now S’Klallam) people invited a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and photographer to come to their village south of Hansville on the Olympic Peninsula. Chairman of the tribe’s governing committee Benny George, along with his aid Jackson and Rev. Karl Leonard of Bremerton, had been in contact with the…
ID Number:PI23825
Date:1939
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Josie Anderson digging clams, Port Gamble Reservation, February 1939
In February 1939, the representatives of the Port Gamble band of the Clallam (now S’Klallam) people invited a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and photographer to come to their village south of Hansville on the Olympic Peninsula. Chairman of the tribe’s governing committee Benny George, along with his aid Jackson and Rev. Karl Leonard of Bremerton, had been in contact with the…
ID Number:PI23827
Date:1939
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Skip George and Benny Anderson carrying clams at Point Julia, February 1939
In February 1939, the representatives of the Port Gamble band of the Clallam (now S’Klallam) people invited a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and photographer to come to their village south of Hansville on the Olympic Peninsula. Chairman of the tribe’s governing committee Benny George, along with his aid Jackson and Rev. Karl Leonard of Bremerton, had been in contact with the…
ID Number:PI23828
Date:1939
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siastenu at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer office, Seattle, November 16, 1940
siastenu (1857-1958), also named Ruth Sehome Shelton, was born in 1857 on Guemes Island, in one of the last remaining Samish longhouses. She was descended from the Dungeness Klallam, the Lummi, and the Samish peoples. siastenu spread the oral histories of the Coast Salish peoples and carried knowledge of that history into the 20th century. In 1889, siastenu married Wheakadim…
ID Number:PI23839
Date:1940
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siastenu and Ed Dalby at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer offices, November 16, 1940
siastenu (1857-1958), also named Ruth Sehome Shelton, was born in 1857 on Guemes Island, in one of the last remaining Samish longhouses. She was descended from the Dungeness Klallam, the Lummi, and the Samish peoples. siastenu spread the oral histories of the Coast Salish peoples and carried knowledge of that history into the 20th century. In 1889, siastenu married Wheakadim…
ID Number:PI23840
Date:1940
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Indigenous rowers carrying racing canoes into water, La Conner, November 29, 1941
In 1941, Swinomish leader Tandy Wilbur arranged a competition between two Indigenous racing canoes and two shells crewed by the University of Washington Huskies. Wilbur had recently become chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Community, and he intended the race to help form bonds among the several different tribal groups living together on the Swinomish reservation. He also wanted to use…
ID Number:PI23846
Date:1941
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Indigenous canoes and Husky crew shell racing, La Conner, November 29, 1941
In 1941, Swinomish leader Tandy Wilbur arranged a competition between two Indigenous racing canoes and two shells crewed by the University of Washington Huskies. Wilbur had recently become chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Community, and he intended the race to help form bonds among the several different tribal groups living together on the Swinomish reservation. He also wanted to use…
ID Number:PI23847
Date:1941
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Husky crew and Indigenous canoe race, La Conner, November 29, 1941
In 1941, Swinomish leader Tandy Wilbur arranged a competition between two Indigenous racing canoes and two shells crewed by the University of Washington Huskies. Wilbur had recently become chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Community, and he intended the race to help form bonds among the several different tribal groups living together on the Swinomish reservation. He also wanted to use…
ID Number:PI23848
Date:1941
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Husky crew and Indigenous canoe race, La Conner, November 29, 1941
In 1941, Swinomish leader Tandy Wilbur arranged a competition between two Indigenous racing canoes and two shells crewed by the University of Washington Huskies. Wilbur had recently become chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Community, and he intended the race to help form bonds among the several different tribal groups living together on the Swinomish reservation. He also wanted to use…
ID Number:PI23850
Date:1941