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Totem pole and its messages brought to Swinomish reservation

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Click here or the image below for the story from goskagit.com on May 17th, 2021.

SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY — Stop No. 29 for a 24-foot totem pole carved from a 400-year-old cedar tree was the Swinomish reservation on Monday morning. The totem pole’s journey seeks to connect the past to the present while looking toward the future and voicing concerns for the protection of sacred lands and waters, and of Native Americans themselves. It’s a journey that began at the Lummi Nation reservation in February and won’t end until August when the totem pole is gifted to the Biden administration and displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. (Image courtesy of Oliver Hamlin, Skagit Valley Herald)

WE GIVE THANKS TO A GROWING NUMBER OF PARTNERS INVOLVED IN THE JOURNEY.

THE JOURNEY WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OUR SPONSORS.

  • Chorus Foundation
  • Compton Foundation
  • Ceres Fund
  • David Rockefeller Fund
  • Hewlett Foundation
  • Invoking The Pause
  • Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
  • Solutions Project
  • Vadon Foundation
  • Wilburforce Foundation
  • Sierra Club
  • The Wilderness Society
  • American Rivers
  • Grand Canyon Trust
  • Rainforest Action Network
  • Water Foundation
  • NDN Collective
  • Global Green Grant Fund
  • Western Conservation Fund
  • Native American Rights Fund