We are a non-profit, 501c3, holding a large annual cultural event, “Blue Jay Brings Back the Moon” A Celebration of Native Arts & Culture, Saturday, November 18, 2017, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Duwamish Longhouse, 4705 West Marginal Way SW. Featuring Shipibo Textiles from Peru and local Native artists. Native Art Show & Reception: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Traditional Dinner & Festive Program: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tickets Sliding Scale: $5 to $50 Questions: info@naahillahee.org, 206-784-0818. A Production of Na’ah Illahee Fund.

Fry Bread Making Classes Instructor: Cecile Hansen, Tribal Chairperson Dates: 3/17/18/18 1-3 pm 4/21/18 11-1 pm 6/09/18 11-1 pm Location: Duwamish Longhouse Commercial Kitchen Fee: $20 Suggested Donation Call to reserve at (206) 431-1582 ext. 1 or Email: Cecile@duwamishtribe.org Open to the Public

Book Signing Event: Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name by David M. Buerge Date: March 24, 2018 at 6-8 pm Location: Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center Free Public Event Read more about the book in this Seattle Times story.

Fry Bread Making Classes Instructor: Cecile Hansen, Tribal Chairperson Dates: 3/17/18/18 1-3 pm 4/21/18 11-1 pm 6/09/18 11-1 pm Location: Duwamish Longhouse Commercial Kitchen Fee: $20 Suggested Donation Call to reserve at (206) 431-1582 ext. 1 or Email: Cecile@duwamishtribe.org Open to the Public

Please join us to support the Duwamish Tribe at our annual gala and auction on June 30, 2018. Silent and live auction. The ticket price is $125 per person. YOU ARE INVITED to join Duwamish Tribal Services for its 12th Annual Gala Dinner & NW Art Auction. This annual event is a celebration of contemporary and traditional culture of Seattle's First People, Chief Seattle's Duwamish Tribe. Your gifts will help maintain operations at the Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center and provide tribal services. We thank you for recognizing the significant role that Seattle's First People play in the diversity and cultural richness of our community. Your support makes a difference! "We raise our hands to you!" We are excited to announce that Actor/Singer/Comedian - RAY THUNDERCHILD will be our emcee this year! Doors open at 4:00 pm at the Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center for check-in. Reception starts at 4:30 pm with Wine, Beer & Appetizers. Silent auction items will be in full swing until 5:45 pm. After enjoying the Reception & Silent Auction, at 6:00 pm guests will gather in the "longhouse room" for a brief traditional program and traditional buffet-style dinner. Guest will enjoy a spirited live auction of art by Northwest artists. Individual Tickets / Full Table Sponsor / Event Sponsorships Ticket 1: $125 per person - Full Event, Reception/Silent Auction and Buffet Dinner/Live Auction 4:30 to 8:30pm Ticket 2: Table Sponsor/Seats 8- $800 ($200 Savings) for Full Event, Reception, Silent & Live Auction. 4:30 to 8:30pm Various Sponsorship levels of our event are available to choose from. We hope you will join us, but if you are unable to attend and still wish to support our Annual Gala, this is a great way to be a part of our event and show your support. Note: Free Courtesy Shuttle and parking available at Seattle Parks Maintenance Facility at 4209 W. Marginal Way SW,Seattle, WA 98106 Duwamish Tribal Services is a registered 501(c) 3 non-profit and donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Use the link below to purchase your tickets. You can also call to pay by phone. Please consider a donation even if you can’t attend this year. Thank you for your generous contributions! PURCHASE TICKETS HERE For information about how to sponsor or contribute, please click here.

Forest & Fish Presentation: September 8, 1 to 3 pm, FREE. Hosted by the Seattle Parks Department. Salmon Lunch for sale ~ $15 starting at noon

TIME TO APOLOGIZE TO THE DUWAMISH TRIBE? It’s happening Saturday, March 30 at Duwamish Longhouse, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. 4705 W Marginal Way SW “In the spirit of cultural humility, we apologize – and listen to the voices of the land,” reads a flyer put out by the Grandmothers Global Healing Movement, founded by Norma Jean Young, focused on bringing the Wisdomkeeping Grandmother’s presence and voice back to the world. Young first gathered global Grandmothers in 2003 at “Getting Down to Earth with the Grandmothers” on Whidbey Island, at Whidbey Institute. It featured five key grandmothers: from New Zealand, Tibet, Hawaii, Lummi, and Grandmother Vi Hilbert of Upper Skagit Nation. The Apology will be focused on the Duwamish people, and all Native American tribes, at a ceremony March 30 at the Duwamish Longhouse, 4705 W. Marginal Way SW, Seattle at 1 p.m. A meal will be served at 3 p.m., with music throughout. The apology is co-sponsored by the Duwamish Longhouse and the Grandmothers Global Healing Movement. Featured speakers include H.E. Dagmola Kusho Sakya of the Tibetan Buddhist lineage; Rev. Kelly Brown, lead pastor of Plymouth Church Seattle; Pastor Pat Wright of Total Experience Gospel Choir fame; and others. Everyone is encouraged to bring food and gifting to the Indigenous, whether dollars, services or goods. “This critical time of breakdown in our world culture demands the presence that holds life whole. Wisdom-keeping grandmothers have always been stabilizers, looked to for functional guidance to hold life whole - especially in troubled times,” says Young. “This is a healing event to bring together the essential components of healing—cultural humility, apology, listening, and taking action in partnership.” Norma Jean Young, a reiki master, served as a healer and helper to Great Grandmother Vi Hilbert in the three years before she died. Hilbert, the last fully fluent language speaker of Lushootseed culture, was a most valued Grandmother taproot who served many Coast Salish tribes. She was named a Washington State Living Treasure in 1989, and received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994, presented by President Bill Clinton.

$75 per person, limited to 10 students per class, includes all materials . Please call the longhouse or CLICK HERE to purchase tickets for this class. Basket Necklace for Beginners: In this 4-5 hour class students will be taught the basics of Coast Salish weaving and it’s cultural significance by fashioning a traditional ceremonial cedar basket necklace. Basket making kits are included and each students will walk away with their own handmade cedar basket necklace. This class is taught by by Coast Salish weaver Joshua Mason. Joshua Mason is a Squaxin Island Tribe member and Coast Salish Weaver. Joshua has been teaching for over ten years and works with multiple fibers. Joshua harvests, processes, and weaves all his own fibers, including the fibers and materials students will use in this class.

You're lovingly invited to join us at the Duwamish Longhouse for a day of building community and being in relationship to ancestry, land, water, spirit and story. Together we will activate relationships to Indigenous Worlds through a practice of protocol that reflects teachings from Coast Salish Life Ways followed by sharing of contemporary Indigenous dance knowings, led by practitioners Shana Therese O'Brien (Darkingjung - Australia) and Dakota Camacho (Matao - Lågua yan Gåni). We will then move to ceremonial activation at the Duwamish River for the healing of our relations with the elements. This event is made possible by an Indigenous worldview centering collective generosity and reciprocity. We are asking everyone that is able to please bring an offering (spiritual or monetary - there is no separation) for the Duwamish who generously sponsored us with the space. You can also consider making a regular donation to the Duwamish at https://www.realrentduwamish.org/ Please also consider bringing offerings for the facilitators and support team as well. If you have questions or need anything, please contact Dakota Camacho at: Email: dakotacamacho@gmail.com RSVP: Tinyurl.com/mwsseattle

This year's Tribal Journeys canoe families are headed northbound to the Lummi Nation. As of this entry, the Muckleshoot are hosting canoes at Alki Beach again this year, with an expected date of July 18th. UPDATE: The tribe's calendar says they will be ready for arrivals starting at noon. Here are the routes.

Please join us to support the Duwamish Tribe at our annual gala and auction on October 11, 2019. A kick-off to Indigenous Peoples Day Celebrations. Purchase tickets online at https://2019duwamishgala.brownpapertickets.com/ You are invited to join the Duwamish Tribe for its 13th Annual Gala Dinner & NW Art Auction. This annual event is a celebration of contemporary and traditional culture of Seattle's First People, Chief Seattle's Duwamish Tribe. Your gifts will help maintain operations at the Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center and provide tribal services. We thank you for recognizing the significant role that Seattle's First People play in the diversity and cultural richness of our community. Your support makes a difference! "We raise our hands to you!" This year marks the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center; the only traditional Longhouse in the City of Seattle that represents the culture and story of Seattles indigenous people, the Dxdwab. Our annual event is designed to kick off the celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day 2019 with first acknowledging our own regions first people, The Duwamish , Dxdwab, understanding our past and celebrating all cultures into the future. As part of our 10th Anniversary celebration, we want to make this a special occasion for you by connecting our story to the present. At Seattles Miners Landing at Pier 57 you will enjoy a delicious lunch, receive complimentary tickets to view Wings over Washington, share in the excitement of our live auction and much more all to support the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center. Doors open at 12:00 pm, event begins at 1:00 pm at the banquet hall at Miners Landing, Pier 57 at 1301 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA 98101. Single Ticket: $150, Full Event, Reception and Catered Lunch Followed by Live Auction If you are unable to attend but would still like to support the Duwamish, please choose the donation option and input your desired donation amount. Check in begins at 12:00 pm Banquet lunch begins at 12:30pm Live Northwest Art Auction at 1:00 pm Closing remarks at 2:30 pm The Duwamish Tribe's nonprofit, Duwamish Tribal Services, is a registered 501(c) 3 non-profit and donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

The annual Duwamish Tribe Princess Angeline Tea Party is a non-traditional offering featuring Jean Ramos's exclusive "sovereign tea", as well as thoughtfully selected green and black teas—paired with a special selection of hors d'oeuvres at our carefully crafted table settings. The tea program will begin with a traditional blessing by Duwamish Tribe Chairperson Cecile Hansen, an update on the Duwamish Tribe's longstanding Federal Acknowledgment case, and a brief discussion on the importance and impact of native sovereignty from the Duwamish Tribe's government leadership. In honor of Princess Angeline, we are donating $5 of each ticket sold to the nationwide initiative Missing Murder Indigenous Women (MMIW) through Women Spirit Coalition, a local organization dedicated to establishing and maintaining programs that support the safety of Native Women. To learn more, please visit: Women Spirit Coalition . Your ticket will include a variety of teas, light finger food, and a brief speaking program outlined above. We look forward to your attendance and support. Tickets available for purchase soon.

Dubai to Baku: A Wisdom Keeper Delegation @ UNCOP Date/time: April 20 @ 1 pm – 3 pm Location: Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center / 4705 W Marginal Way SW / Seattle Join us at the Duwamish Longhouse to hear about the work of the Wisdom Keepers, an international team of indigenous leaders and activists leading efforts for the inclusion of indigenous perspectives in global climate policy discussions at UNCOP. This is an opportunity for adults and youth to learn more about an indigenous perspective on climate change and the urgency combined with optimism that guides indigenous efforts worldwide. Please register for this free event at bit.ly/WisdomKeepers4-20-24 For more information, email Carrie at louise_wa@yahoo.com

INDIGENOUS TREES TEACHINGS: Coastal Peoples Eco-Cultural Stewardship DATE: Sunday, June 30, 2024 TIME: 10 am to 4 pm WHERE: Camp Long Lodge & Park 5200 35th Ave SW Off 35th Ave & Dawson St Free parking Tribal Teachings by Coastal Elders & Heritage Leaders Indigenous Trees Tour Stewardship Ways Talking Circles Cultural lunch Raffle & Giveaway Surprises Educational Materials Trees Mapping CONTACT: windzofchangealliance@gmail.com (206) 683 - 9804 Link for FREE REGISTRATION drive.google.com/file/d/1klYedRq8SIPw7goyKU3DHT0fukUmbNbQ/view?usp=sharing