FRONT From the land near the waters of 2005 AND 2007 COAST SALISH British Columbia, to the South Puget GATHERING LIST OF ATTENDEES Sound, the Salish Sea Peoples come together continued from inside panel: ANNUAL each year to discuss a common goal. Tribal and First Nation Entities Coastal Salish Initiative Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group COAST SALISH develop Sencot’len Alliance British Columbia Aboriginal Fisheries Commission GATHERING 2005 AND 2007 COAST SALISH Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission GATHERING LIST OF ATTENDEES Skagit River Cooperative System WESTERN WASHINGTON TRIBES Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council AND BRITISH COLUMBIA FIRST Western Washington Tribal Chairman and Council share US Federal and Washington State Agencies NATIONS OF THE SALISH SEA Swinomish Indian Tribal Community US Environmental Protection Agency Lummi Nation Washington Department of Ecology Tulalip Tribes Puget Sound Action Team Nooksack Tribes People for Puget Sound Makah Indian Tribal Council unify Northwest Straits Commission Suquamish Tribal Council Skagit County Marine Resource Center Squaxin Island Tribe City of Seattle Skokomish Tribe Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Canada Federal and British Columbia Provincial Agencies Nisqually Tribe Pacific Yukon Region, Environment Canada Snohomish Tribe Canadian Consulate Samish Indian Nation British Columbia Ministry of Environment Lower Elwa Klallam Tribe British Columbia Park Canada Quinault Indian Nation British Columbia Ministry of Transportation Georgia Strait Alliance First Nation Chiefs and Councilors South Coast Fisheries and Oceans Canada Sumas Nation Aboriginal Programming Fisheries and Oceans Canada Tsleil Waututh Nation Squamish Nation Educational Enties Chemainus First Nation University of British Columbia Halalt First Nation Washington State Evergreen College Cowichan Tribes Northwest Indian College Cheam Indian Tribe Coast Salish Gathering Secretariats Snyxeymuxw First Nation Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Soowahalie First Nation Coast Salish Initiative Chawathil First Nation Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission KwawKwawApilt Nation Georgia Basin Action Plan Steering Committee, Sto:lo Intergovernmental Tribal Council First Nation Representatives Homalco Nation Chemainus First Nation CONTACT INFORMATION: Tsartlip First Nation Debra Lekanof, Coordinator Charles O’Hara, Lyackson First Nation [email protected] Planning Director Tsexclm First Nation Phone: 360-391-5296 [email protected] Songhees Nation Patti Gobin Phone: 360-466-7203 Penelakut Nation Special Projects Manager Ray Harris Nanoose First Nation Tulalip Tribes Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group Stolo Nation [email protected] First Nation Representative Tsawwassen Nation Phone: 425-754-7965 [email protected] Tsawout First Nation continued on back panel Phone: 250-245-4660 www.coastsalishgathering.com A GATHERING OF COAST SALISH PEOPLES: A common goal: to protect the environment of the Salish Sea. WESTERN WASHINGTON TRIBES AND BRITISH COLUMBIA FIRST NATIONS OF Our homeland are rich in diverse array The Coast Salish Gathering provides the opportunity of marine and upland resources unique to this area THE SALISH SEA for US Tribal Chairmen and First Nation Chiefs, the that sustain our cultures and traditions. Salmon are the US Environmental Protection Agency and Environment icon of this essential and yet diminishing connection Canada to build a collaborative body an mutual The Gathering facilitates of our people to our land. Our homelands and our understanding we must all have together to solve the a shared effort for resources are under significant pressure from population environmental issues facing our shared homelands. We do identifying environmental growth, industrial expansion and economic demands. not observe the gathering as a government to government Due to the serious environmental challenges to the consultation process, but merely a means of coming issues, policy and Salish Sea, Tribal and First Nation leaders, along with together to find common grounds on environmental and recomendations in the U’wq(united ) non tribal governing officials, come together, in a non natural resources issues, concerns and projects. Coast Salish region. We come together to share, government to government consultation event yearly The Gathering facilitates a shared effort to identify develop and recommend to engage in a policy dialogue, to find common ground priority environmental concerns, issues and projects in the on environmental issues in our shared region. The trans boundary Coast Salish Region that is comprised of policies and actions to ensure focus is to find a means of resolving these critical issues the Puget Sound in the United States, the Georgia Basin in develop together. We remember, our environment and natural Canada, and the Straits of Juan de Fuca, the Salish Sea. Develop Policy to Protect the Region of the Coast Salish the protection of our shared resources know no boundary, nor do the traditions and cultural life ways of the Coast Salish Peoples. For more information, visit environment and natural www.coastsalishgathering.com share Share Environmental Projects in Our Lands resources in our homeland, the Salish Sea. unify Unify — Protect Our Traditional Knowledge, Cultural Resources and Lifeways The Annual Coast Salish Gathering is made possible by Coast Salish Tribes and First Nations, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environment Canada and supporting non federal tribal organizations. The United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environment Canada, state and provincial funding and Western Washington Tribal Funding..