Acknowledgements - Foreword - Introduction - Family History -Early Life - Salish Society and Culture - Winter (Spirit) Dancing and Other Religious Activities - Ron Hilbert: Life as an Artist - The ...

Nakesha Edwards was only 14 years old when her immersion in traditional Coast Salish art began with a wood carving class taught by one of her uncles. Edwards is an enrolled Swinomish tribal member ...

A classic-style Coast Salish blanket, which includes a mixture of woolly dog and goat wool. The woolly dog wool is in the warp (vertical strands). Accessioned 1858. Collection notes. Researchers from ...

Researchers from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have explored the enigmatic realm of woolly dogs, a now-extinct canine species with deep cultural significance for Indigenous ...

A new analysis sheds light on the ancestry and genetics of woolly dogs, a now extinct breed of dog that was a fixture of Indigenous Coast Salish communities in the Pacific Northwest for millennia.

Since time immemorial, the Coast Salish, including the people of the Samish Indian Nation, have managed their lands with intentional, low-intensity fires. These carefully timed burns nurtured their ...

The R/V Albatross’s nets and dredges caught all manner of sea life, from tiny cold water corals to enormous halibut and salmon, as the research vessel surveyed the fisheries of Alaska and the West ...

Victoria Friesen has always had an artistic eye. She gravitates towards the visual arts and has dabbled in pencil drawings and character designs, where her subjects are usually animals. The ...

If you read her award winning memoir, you may know Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe as a "Coast Salish punk." Now, LaPointe is back with a new essay collection, titled "Thunder Song: Essays." In it, we get to ...