Pe’pi’ow’elh, San Juan Island, National Historical Parks
WE - ONE MIND FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE WORK
WE - ONE MIND FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE WORK
A Beyond Boundaries story:
Whiteswan Environmental and US National Parks Service
February 2, 2021
Whiteswan Environmental and US National Parks Service
February 2, 2021
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National Parks Service 100th Centennial Anniversary
August 25, 2016
August 25, 2016
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.
Reef Net Captain (Saanich) & Salmon Story Boards (Lummi)
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.
Your donation will help us with future installments that will tell the story of the Reef Net Captain, the Salmon Woman and their children. The completion of these story boards will show how the saltwater salmon people are waiting to go back home to their 800 foot longhouse.
Stern, Bernard. Lummi Indians of Northwest Washington, 1934.
Morris, Gary. Strait Salish Prehistory, 2010.
Your donation will help us with future installments that will tell the story of the Reef Net Captain, the Salmon Woman and their children. The completion of these story boards will show how the saltwater salmon people are waiting to go back home to their 800 foot longhouse.
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Whiteswan Environmental relies on donations from the community to make this vision a reality.
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