August 25, 2016
National Parks Service 100th Centennial Anniversary
National Parks Service 100th Centennial Anniversary
Reef Net Captain (Saanich) & Salmon Story Boards (Lummi)
In the spirit of WE - One Mind for the Purpose of the Work, Whiteswan Environmental coordinated with NPS to hold a ceremony at the ancestral village site Pe’pi’ow’elh, San Juan Island. WE sponsored Lummi and Saanich nations to carve three story boards to give to the National Parks. This was the culmination of the 2016 Spirit of the Sxwo'le (SOS) Stewardship Corps and now serves to educate over 300,000+ annual visitors a year about (The First Ones" (NPS, 2015).
A Lummi Creation Story: In the Beginning
There were two brothers who were placed on earth in Somane. Finding no livelihood, the older brother moved to Melaxat (Saanich), but the younger brother, Swetan, continued to San Juan Island (Lummi), where he stopped to make a home. To both brothers the Creator gave the gift of the salmon, the spear, the reef-net (Sxwo’le), the suin and fire.
Stern, Bernard. Lummi Indians of Northwest Washington, 1934.
Morris, Gary. Strait Salish Prehistory, 2010.
Stern, Bernard. Lummi Indians of Northwest Washington, 1934.
Morris, Gary. Strait Salish Prehistory, 2010.
June 10, 2021
Article Link: Featured in the NPS Women's Heritage Project
"Williams and Olsen collaborated with the National Park Service’s 2016 centennial celebration at San Juan Island National Historical Park, seeing this as an opportunity to honor the Indigenous history and educate visitors. Consequently, this expanded the park’s narrative focus beyond the nineteenth-century cultural and military exchanges between the US and British forces that the park was established to commemorate."
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February 2, 2021
Video: A Beyond Boundaries story:
Whiteswan Environmental and US National Parks Service
Video: A Beyond Boundaries story:
Whiteswan Environmental and US National Parks Service
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