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 ...

Decades of work building new relationships between Native artists and the Burke Museum in Seattle make a wool-weaving exhibit ...

Full-body forensic reconstruction of a woolly dog based on a 160-year-old pelt in the Smithsonian’s collection as well as archaeological remains. The reconstructed woolly dog stands against a stylized ...

CounterPoint Press Publishing Northwest author Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe’s newest book is called Thunder Song. It’s a collection of essays examining the intersection of her Indigenous ancestry, Coast ...

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 ...

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 ...

A classic-style Coast Salish blanket, which includes a mixture of woolly dog and goat wool. The woolly dog wool is in the warp (vertical strands). Accessioned 1858. Collection notes. Researchers from ...

Lummi Nation artist Yolanda Felix-Wilbur discusses the meaning behind her piece depicting the Lummi Nation’s history, canoe journey and the tradition of the potlatch. It reads through symbolism on two ...

When Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe set out to write her first memoir she was carrying on a family legacy of telling native stories. Her book, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, ...

Note to editors: Photos illustrating this research and other associated press materials can be found via Dropbox here (password: mutton). Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...