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Visitors are invited to experience these these experience to invited are Visitors events. special are typically not accessible accessible not typically are celebrations that mark seasonal cycles and commemorate commemorate and cycles seasonal mark that celebrations gatherings or winter dances dances winter or gatherings language, music and dance, food, arts and crafts, and and crafts, and arts food, dance, and music language, such as smokehouse smokehouse as such and its communities continue to value traditions of of traditions value to continue communities its and ceremonial or spiritual events events spiritual or ceremonial Seattle is proud of its diverse ethnic and cultural heritage, heritage, cultural and ethnic diverse its of proud is Seattle cultural centers. 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The guides guides The heritage. cultural rich city’s the explore to want When and Where are are Where and When are a resource for visitors who who visitors for resource a are Guides Cultural Seattle SEATTLE SERIES GUIDE CULTURAL THE ABOUT NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE AMERICAN NATIVE The ubiquitous totem pole, “We have always been here, we are still here, we will the most visible example of always be here.” – Upper Skagit Elder Vi Hilbert Native artwork in Seattle, actually comes from Southeast SPECIAL EVENTS Seattle is Indian Country. The city is named for a hereditary Alaska and British Columbia. chief of the Suquamish and Duwamish people, many of First Salmon Ceremonies our communities and landscape features have Indian Indian Reservations throughout the Pacific Northwest names, and tribal artwork can be found throughout the These annual ceremonies are observed by many tribes in spring or city’s museums, galleries and public squares. Several summer, depending on the timing of local salmon runs. According Indian tribes call the Seattle area home, including the to tradition, the first salmon caught each season is considered sacred, and must be treated with respect. This time-honored Duwamish, Suquamish, Muckleshoot, Snoqualmie, event is an opportunity to thank the salmon for returning and Tulalip, and Puyallup Nations. In addition, Seattle is home for giving its life to feed the people. Contact individual tribes to a diverse group of Native people from throughout for information about dates and locations; a directory of tribes Washington, Alaska and the rest of North America. Since the Klondike Gold Rush of around the state can be found at www.goia.wa.gov. 1897, Seattle has had close ties to Lushootseed, or Puget Sound Salish, is the dialect of the the Northwest Coast, and many Coast Salish language that is traditionally spoken in the SEAFAIR Indian Days Pow Wow monumental works of art from Haida, At Daybreak Star in Discovery Park Seattle area, and tribes are working hard to maintain Tsimshian and Tlingit carvers can be On the third weekend in July each year, hundreds of fluency through youth language programs. In recent seen in Seattle. These poles were dancers in full regalia, dozens of drum groups and years, a cultural revival has taken place in Puget Sound traditionally carved from cedar trees thousands of spectators gather to celebrate the richness Native communities, based on renewing the traditions of to serve as memorial posts displaying of Native American cultures. www.unitedindians.com canoe carving and canoe journeys, and passing them on inherited crests, or as house posts to younger generations. providing support for large cedar long Archaeological sites in the Puget Sound area date back over houses. Traditional totem poles are on 10,000 years, and are found throughout the landscape, display at the Burke Museum, Victor from high in the Cascade Mountains to lowland rivers and Steinbrueck Park, Pioneer Square, and beaches. For many generations, traditional life has been other parks and viewpoints around the based on two primary resources: cedar and salmon. Oral city. Contemporary