Indian Tribes
Speaking up for tribal women
Tulalip leader lobbies for protection for women
Date: 05/23/2012 | Local News
Rename Ebey Slough?
Some call Ebey a bad guy; others say it's not really a slough
Date: 05/16/2012 | Local News
Comments in on future of Suiattle River Road
DARRINGTON -- Many people in Snohomish County remember driving up Suiattle River Road in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, also known as Forest Road 26, to popular trailheads, hunting and fishing spots and campgrounds.
Date: 05/05/2012 | Local News
Tribes celebrate new treaty fishing access site
YAKIMA -- Native American tribes celebrated the completion of the last of 31 tribal treaty fishing access sites along the lower Columbia River on Monday.
Date: 04/25/2012 | Northwest
Front Porch: Opportunity Expo
Opportunity ExpoThe Marysville Rotary, Tulalip Tribes and the Marysville School District are providing a College, Career, and Work Expo for students and their parents. The event is set to be open from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Tulalip Resort's Orca and Chinook rooms.
Date: 04/16/2012 | Local News
Tribal art’s wide reach
Tulalip artwork for Cabela's means work for many
Date: 04/15/2012 | Business
Tribes, government agree to $1 billion settlement
YAKIMA -- The federal government will pay more than $1 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by American Indian tribes over mismanagement of tribal money and trust lands, under a settlement announced Wednesday.
Date: 04/11/2012 | Northwest
Name change proposal irks Soap Lake residents
SOAP LAKE -- A proposal to change the name of Soap Lake to Lake Smokiam is generating strong opposition from residents of the town of Soap Lake.
Date: 04/04/2012 | Northwest
Tulalips elect new tribal board member
TULALIP -- The Tulalip Tribes have a new member of their board of directors in Deborah Parker, replacing Marie Zackuse, who spent more than 20 years on the board.
Date: 04/03/2012 | Local News
Eight fired Sauk-Suiattle workers sue tribe
DARRINGTON -- Eight former employees of the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe have filed suit in its Tribal Court, alleging that the Tribal Council violated its constitution and employee handbook and intentionally discriminated against the former employees.
Date: 03/29/2012 | Local News
Planning resumes for Suiattle River Road work
EVERETT -- In the big timber heyday, loaded log trucks rumbled down the Suiattle River Road to Darrington and lumber mills throughout the county.
Date: 03/24/2012 | Local News
Indian artifacts at dock site
No added delay seen for Mukilteo ferry project
Date: 03/23/2012 | Local News
Efforts under way to change Soap Lake's name
SOAP LAKE -- Soap Lake's name may change to Lake Smokiam in an effort to bridge relations with American Indians. A state committee is considering whether to reinstate the original name.
Date: 02/29/2012 | Northwest
President to sign land deal for Quileute Tribe
PORT ANGELES -- Congressman Norm Dicks' office says President Obama could sign the land deal with the Quileute Tribe as soon as Friday.
Date: 02/15/2012 | Northwest
Family, Tulalip Tribes feuding over lucrative land
SEATTLE -- To the Campbell brothers, the 56 acres of prime land near the Tulalip Tribes' popular casino and outlet mall was a chance for the family to generate income for generations to come.
Date: 02/12/2012 | Northwest
Work to restore salmon habitat on Stillaguamish River near Darrington nearly complete
DARRINGTON -- A side channel along the North Fork Stillaguamish River once provided salmon habitat, until railroad tracks cut it off from the river's main channel in the 1930s.Now, work by the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians to restore the waterway is nearly complete.
Date: 02/10/2012 | Local News
Tulalip tribal members fight against drug-trafficking
Roy Pablo was fed up with drug dealers.He posted as much on his Facebook page.He didn't know it'd start a movement.Pablo, 34, of Tulalip, now is helping organizing a grassroots campaign against drug-trafficking on the reservation, he said.
Date: 02/03/2012 | Sirens
Stillaguamish announce more than $500K gifts to city of Arlington, school district, agencies
ARLINGTON -- The Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians announced Monday the donation of more than a half-million dollars to benefit those who live in the Arlington area.
Date: 01/25/2012 | Local News
The bridge between worlds
William Shelton saved his Indian culture by reaching out
Date: 01/03/2012 | Local News
Tulalips lobby Navy to give tug contract to state shipyard
TULALIP -- The Tulalip Tribes are among several Indian tribes lobbying the Navy to build its next fleet of tugboats in the Northwest.
Date: 12/16/2011 | Local News
Building their futures
Tulalip Tribes training American Indians in construction
Date: 11/21/2011 | Local News
Tribes aren't banking on just casinos anymore
INDIAN TOWNSHIP, Maine -- Long before Europeans arrived, the Passamaquoddy tribe spent summers feasting on seafood along the rocky shore of Passamaquoddy Bay, known for its dramatic tidal changes. In the winter, the tribe traveled up the St. Croix River in birch canoes to hunt deer, caribou and...
Date: 11/14/2011 | Nation & World
Tulalip Tribes donate record $5.5 million in grants
TULALIP -- The word "potlatch" means "to give" or "gift."It's also the name of an ancient tradition practiced by the Coast Salish people, when families invited guests for a feast and shared what they had.The Tulalip tribal members are continuing this tradition in a new way.
Date: 09/24/2011 | Local News
Darrington’s Sauk-Suiattle Tribe welcomes first dugout canoe in generations
DARRINGTON -- For the first time in generations, the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe has a new shovel-nose dugout river canoe.The cedar canoe was delivered to the tribe Sept. 17 by Lummi tribal artist and Salish cultural scholar Felix Solomon, who had been commissioned to carve the canoe.
Date: 09/23/2011 | Local News
Study could end debate about what's causing foul odor
An outside expert might be brought in to help clear the air on whether Cedar Grove Composting is the source of irritating smells constantly wafting through Marysville and the Tulalip Reservation.
Date: 09/16/2011 | Local News
A fix for water woes
A new pipeline will connect the Tulalips with Everett's supply
Date: 09/15/2011 | Local News
Cherokees expel descendants of slaves from tribe
TULSA, Okla. — One of the nation's largest American Indian tribes has sent letters to about 2,800 descendants of slaves once owned by its members, revoking their citizenship and cutting their medical care, food stipends, low-income homeowners' assistance and other services.
Date: 09/09/2011 | Nation & World
Casino makes donation to Granite Falls Senior Center
GRANITE FALLS -- The Granite Falls Senior Center can pay off its new roof.
Date: 08/27/2011 | Local News
Tribes want Discover Pass rules clarified
OLYMPIA -- State and tribal officials are working to clarify the new Discover Pass program's rules, which fail to spell out when tribal members are exempt from paying the fee for access to state parks and recreation land.
Date: 08/22/2011 | Local News
Woman tackles climb to support health for Indians
Rhonda Neufang used to step on a scale backwards. During doctor visits, she couldn't stand to see how much she weighed.At her heaviest, the Monroe woman may have tipped the scale at more than 193 pounds. She's not sure. After her weight hit 193, she said, "I didn't look."
Date: 08/21/2011 | Local News
Nations will do battle
Thousands will gather for stick game tourney in Tulalip
Date: 08/19/2011 | Local News
Brides, border crossings and a birthday bash
Surprises were in store when we celebrated husband Chuck's 62nd birthday at the Tulalip Resort Casino.
Date: 08/17/2011 | Local News
Front Porch: Play slahal with Tulalip Tribes
Play the stick gameThe Tulalip Tribes invites the public to learn the traditional tribal stick game, also known as slahal or bone game, on Thursday.Hourly sessions are planned from 3 to 7 p.m. in a tent behind the Tulalip Resort Casino.
Date: 08/17/2011 | Local News
Tulalip utility employee arrested after $5,000 metal theft
TULALIP -- About $5,000 worth of brass fittings have been stolen from the Tulalip Tribes and police suspect an employee with the utilities department is responsible.
Date: 08/04/2011 | Local News
Marysville, Tulalips seek Seattle’s help in odor debate with Cedar Grove Composting
In the ongoing war of words over who's to blame for odor problems at Cedar Grove Composting, the city of Marysville and the Tulalip Tribes now are asking Seattle to step in.
Date: 08/04/2011 | Local News
Cabela's breaks ground on Quil Ceda Village site
TULALIP -- The Tulalip Tribes have launched an accelerated 30-week construction program intended to allow Cabela's Inc. to open its Quil Ceda Village store in April, officials said.
Date: 08/02/2011 | Business
New county council districts shaping up
If you live in Granite Falls, the Tulalip area or on the outskirts of Everett, you might soon find yourself represented by a different face on the Snohomish County Council.
Date: 07/29/2011 | Local News
Coast Salish tribes gather
78 canoes arrive in Swinomish, part of annual journey (video)
Date: 07/26/2011 | Local News
Tulalips, Microsoft amicably settle name issue
TULALIP -- No hard feelings, tribal leaders say.The question of whether tribal leadership was upset with the use of "Tulalip" for a prototype of a Microsoft social media design project was answered Thursday evening when the tribes' Board of Directors issued the following statement:
Date: 07/22/2011 | Local News
Teen who committed suicide had been in 22 foster homes
LYNNWOOD -- A boy who jumped to his death from a Lynnwood overpass in January had been on a waiting list for a bed at a state-run psychiatric hospital. He had been in 22 different foster homes since 1998.
Date: 07/21/2011 | Local News
Tulalip Tribes question Microsoft about name for company's social media project
TULALIP -- It got the techies buzzing.One day last week, Microsoft published online a prototype of an uber-secret social media design project.Here's the kicker: The project name was "Tulalip."
Date: 07/21/2011 | Local News
Veterans Affairs official to meet with Northwest tribes
AIRWAY HEIGHTS -- Representatives of several Northwest American Indian tribes plan to meet with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' new director of tribal government relations.
Date: 07/11/2011 | Northwest
Sacred Indian burial grounds burn
Several American-Indian tribes are lamenting the damage to sacred burial grounds and archaeological sites caused by the largest fire in New Mexico history.
Date: 07/03/2011 | Nation & World
Oak Harbor was advised to get archaeology help before ancient remains found
OAK HARBOR -- Three sets of American Indian remains were found during downtown road construction after officials rejected a suggestion to employ an archaeologist on the project. archeology
Date: 06/24/2011 | Local News
Tulalip graduate's short film honored by film competition
TULALIP -- Aaron Jones hopes to see his film this August when it's part of the Smithsonian Native Cinema Showcase in Santa Fe, N.M.
Date: 06/24/2011 | Local News
Community Extra: Applause
HONORSTulalip Tribes win awardThe Tulalip Tribes have been recognized with this year's Emil Eriksson Service to Children Award.
Date: 06/23/2011 | Local News
Concerns raised about Sauk-Suiattle tribal firings
DARRINGTON -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs wants members of the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe to make sure its actions won't harm federal funding for the tribe.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Local News
Sauk-Suiattle Tribe fires 11 of its 64 employees in dispute among council members
DARRINGTON -- A group of people have been fired by the small Sauk-Suiattle Tribe amid a dispute among members of the Tribal Council.Sauk-Suiattle Chairwoman Janice Mabee confirmed that 11 of the tribe's 64 employees were fired on Friday, a move she said she did not support.
Date: 06/16/2011 | Local News
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