Buy Native! Support Native owned businesses Eighth Generation is a Native-owned and operated company based in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 2008 when Louie Gong (Nooksack/Chinese/French/Scottish) — a Native artist, activist and educator widely known for merging traditional Coast Salish [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Salish’
February 18th, 2015 - 1:14 am § in America
Support Chief Leschi, Fight Illegal Immigration on the Anniverary of His Death
When Chief Leschi resisted the American occupation by attacking Seattle , he was tried and convicted for murder. His first trial resulted in a hung jury because of the judge’s instruction that killing of combatants during wartime did not constitute murder. He was convicted and sentenced to dea[...]
October 14th, 2014 - 11:19 am § in Misc.
HUMOR: The bus as Sisiutal
A view of what the Curitiba City Hall is calling the world’s longest articulated bus, as it was presented to the press before going into service on the city’s public transportation grid, in Curitiba April 5, 2011. The bus, made in Brazil by Volvo with a Neobus chassis, has a capacity of[...]
November 23rd, 2010 - 5:07 pm § in Uncategorized
HAPPY NW POTLATCH! (and Thanksgiving!)
For those of you who have not yet grown webs between your fingers (a sign of living here too long), I thought you might like to now what the term means: A potlatch is a festival practiced by the peoples living on the shores of the Salish Sea (Puget Sound, the Gulf of Georgia, and […][...]