<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=192888919167017&amp;ev=PageView&amp;noscript=1">
Thursday, March 28, 2024
March 28, 2024

Linkedin Pinterest

Lummi tribe celebrates first salmon of season

The Columbian
Published: May 31, 2012, 5:00pm

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — The Lummi tribe celebrated the first salmon of the season in a ceremony Thursday at the high school on the reservation near Bellingham.

Drummers beat a slow rhythm as a spring Chinook was wheeled in on a cart wrapped in a red blanket covered in cedar fronds. A procession of children matched the rhythm, shaking rattles and clicking small paddles.

The Bellingham Herald reports (http://is.gd/M6AycH ) the ceremony included a feast of roasted salmon and other seafood.

Hundreds of tribal members and guests attended the ceremony and heard the traditional story of how salmon came to the Lummi people.

___

Information from: The Bellingham Herald, http://www.bellinghamherald.com

Loading...