Our Program and Services:
WE serve People of the Salish Sea through several programs including:
1) Coast Salish Youth Stewardship Corps
2) Whatcom Intergenerational High School (WIHS) Pilot Project
3) Indigenous Community Liaison Services
4) Coast Salish Tribal Heritage Field Institute Proposal
All intersect to offer hands-on, intergenerational, phenomenon-based experiences that build upon the spirit of cooperation between bio-regional tribes, government, and non-government organizations and academic institutions. These experiences help reconnect Coast Salish youth and community members with their culture and ancestral homelands while strengthening relationships with those that support what Treaty Signers considered sacred trust responsibilities.
Our next generation of historians and conservationists have been working with traditional providers, elders and partners through place-based stewardship programs. This holistic planning engages many stakeholders who are helping us implement the vision of a Coast Salish Tribal Heritage Field Institute - 7 longhouses in the San Juan Islands and 7 longhouses in the Gulf Islands culminating in an Indigenous-led, 13 Moon, Mountain to Sea, Reef to Reef, K-PhD program. WE believe such a program will allow Coast Salish peoples to practice their inherent birthrights and treaty rights, and in doing so, offer a measure of cultural, historical and ecological health protection and sustainability that can be modeled across the United States and Canada.
As fellows surround and support our living model of practice, WE guide infrastructure and curriculum development through a pilot and proposal that is in alignment with the Office of Native Education - OSPI and the 2015 Washington State Senate Bill 5433 in which tribal history, culture, governance, and language is mandated for common schools. Through such collaboration, students acquire culturally relevant practices to meet Indigenous and Western competencies that contribute to a more just and sustainable world.
By using Indigenous models for Indigenous communities, our projects and programs made history. President Obama thanked us for our shared commitment to the environment and putting our children’s future first. As well, WE received a social innovation award and were commended for being at the leading edge of reversing epistemicide and creating transformational change in public health and social sciences.
WE serve People of the Salish Sea through several programs including:
1) Coast Salish Youth Stewardship Corps
2) Whatcom Intergenerational High School (WIHS) Pilot Project
3) Indigenous Community Liaison Services
4) Coast Salish Tribal Heritage Field Institute Proposal
All intersect to offer hands-on, intergenerational, phenomenon-based experiences that build upon the spirit of cooperation between bio-regional tribes, government, and non-government organizations and academic institutions. These experiences help reconnect Coast Salish youth and community members with their culture and ancestral homelands while strengthening relationships with those that support what Treaty Signers considered sacred trust responsibilities.
Our next generation of historians and conservationists have been working with traditional providers, elders and partners through place-based stewardship programs. This holistic planning engages many stakeholders who are helping us implement the vision of a Coast Salish Tribal Heritage Field Institute - 7 longhouses in the San Juan Islands and 7 longhouses in the Gulf Islands culminating in an Indigenous-led, 13 Moon, Mountain to Sea, Reef to Reef, K-PhD program. WE believe such a program will allow Coast Salish peoples to practice their inherent birthrights and treaty rights, and in doing so, offer a measure of cultural, historical and ecological health protection and sustainability that can be modeled across the United States and Canada.
As fellows surround and support our living model of practice, WE guide infrastructure and curriculum development through a pilot and proposal that is in alignment with the Office of Native Education - OSPI and the 2015 Washington State Senate Bill 5433 in which tribal history, culture, governance, and language is mandated for common schools. Through such collaboration, students acquire culturally relevant practices to meet Indigenous and Western competencies that contribute to a more just and sustainable world.
By using Indigenous models for Indigenous communities, our projects and programs made history. President Obama thanked us for our shared commitment to the environment and putting our children’s future first. As well, WE received a social innovation award and were commended for being at the leading edge of reversing epistemicide and creating transformational change in public health and social sciences.
Whiteswan Environmental relies on donations from the community to make this vision a reality.
