City Council chambers were packed Monday morning, Oct. 12, as community members gathered to honor the city’s first Coast Salish Day. “Some of you may know there’s a surge across America with cities ...

Bellingham’s newest piece of public art is also its first by a Coast Salish artist, in collaboration with a well-known local muralist. Their sweeping mural, called “The Salmon Run,” depicts orcas and ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — The salmon are running in Bellingham... up a river of concrete? In a new mural lining North Forest St. near downtown Bellingham, Jason LaClair, an artist of Lummi and Nooksack ...

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.

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 ...

As ecosystems in coastal British Columbia disappear due to long-term browsing pressures from overabundant black-tailed deer, ...

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 ...

In a collection featuring the patterns, textures and stories of Coast Salish people, Native-owned art and lifestyle brand Eighth Generation has partnered with Starbucks for an exclusive five-item ...

Rick Castellano of the Island County Historical Society, an expert on Coast Salish foods, will discuss the diverse natural diet of the people who lived here long before foreign settlers arrived. He’ll ...

Hospital waiting rooms are filled with nervous tension, somehow heightened with spaces often lit with the dull glare of fluorescent lights. A collaboration celebrated Thursday between the Tulalip ...