Skagit County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census,the population was 129,523. The county seat and largest city is Mount Vernon. The county was formed in 1883 from Whatcom County and is named for the Skagit Indian tribe,which has been indigenous to the area prior to European-American settlement.
La Conner is a town in Skagit County,Washington,United States with a population of 965 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Mount Vernon–Anacortes,Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town hosts several events as part of the annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival held in April.
Sauk-Suiattle,or Sah-Ku-Me-Hu, is a federally recognized Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. The tribe historically lived along the banks of the Sauk,Suiattle,Cascade,Stillaguamish,and Skagit rivers,in the area known as Sauk Prairie at the foot of Whitehorse Mountain in the North Cascade Range.
The SwinomishSWIN-ə-mish are an historically Lushootseed-speaking Native American people in western Washington state in the United States. The Tribe lives in the southeastern part of Fidalgo Island in northern Puget Sound,near the San Juan Islands,in Skagit County,Washington. Skagit County is located about 70 miles (110 km) north of Seattle.
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,also called Pine Ridge Agency,is an Oglala Lakota Indian reservation located almost entirely within the U.S. state of South Dakota,with a small portion in Nebraska. Originally included within the territory of the Great Sioux Reservation,Pine Ridge was created by the Act of March 2,1889,25 Stat. 888. in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border. Today it consists of 3,468.85 sq mi (8,984 km2) of land area and is one of the largest reservations in the United States.
Lushootseed,also Puget Salish,Puget Sound Salish or Skagit-Nisqually,is a language made up of a dialect continuum of several Salish tribes of modern-day Washington state. Lushootseed is one of the Coast Salish languages,one of two main divisions of the Salishan language family.
The Red Lake Indian Reservation covers 1,260.3 sq mi in parts of nine counties in northwestern Minnesota,United States.
The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians is a Native American tribe of Ojibwa mixed heritage people,who would be considered Metis if they were Canadian,based on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt,North Dakota. The tribe has 30,000 enrolled members. A population of 5,815 reside on the main reservation and another 2,516 reside on off-reservation trust land. It is federally recognized and Jamie Azure is the current Tribal Chairman elected for 2016 to 2018 - 2018 to 2020 - 2020 to 2022 terms.
The Standing Rock Reservation lies across the border between North and South Dakota in the United States,and is inhabited by ethnic "Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaksa bands of the Dakota Oyate," as well as the Hunkpatina Dakota. The Ihanktonwana Dakota are the Upper Yanktonai,part of the collective of Wiciyena. The sixth-largest Native American reservation in land area in the US,Standing Rock includes all of Sioux County,North Dakota,and all of Corson County,South Dakota,plus slivers of northern Dewey and Ziebach counties in South Dakota,along their northern county lines at Highway 20.
The Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855,or the Point Elliott Treaty,—also known as Treaty of Point Elliot / Point Elliott Treaty—is the lands settlement treaty between the United States government and the Native American tribes of the greater Puget Sound region in the recently formed Washington Territory,one of about thirteen treaties between the U.S. and Native Nations in what is now Washington. The treaty was signed on 22 January 1855,at Muckl-te-oh or Point Elliott,now Mukilteo,Washington,and ratified 8 March and 11 April 1859. Between the signing of the treaty and the ratification,fighting continued throughout the region. Lands were being occupied by European-Americans since settlement in what became Washington Territory began in earnest from about 1845.
The Lower Skagit are a tribe of the Lushootseed Native American people living in the U.S. state of Washington. Today they are enrolled in the federally recognized tribe,the Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation.
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an American Indian and Alaska Native rights organization. It was founded in 1944 to represent the tribes and resist federal government pressure for termination of tribal rights and assimilation of their people. These were in contradiction of their treaty rights and status as sovereign entities. The organization continues to be an association of federally recognized and state-recognized Indian tribes.
The Samish Indian Nation is a Coast Salish nation and a signatory to the Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855. Samish has a government-to-government relationship with the United States of America. The Samish are a Northern Straits branch of Central Coast Salish peoples. The Samish Nation is headquartered in Anacortes,Fidalgo Island,in Washington,north of Puget Sound.
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community,also known as the Swinomish Tribe,is a federally recognized Tribe located on Puget Sound in Washington. They are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest that includes the Central and Coast Salish peoples who lived in the Samish and Skagit River valleys,nearby coasts,and islands. The Tribe's population includes Swinomish,Lower Skagit,Upper Skagit,Kikiallus,and Samish peoples.
The United States public policy agenda on issues affecting Native Americans under the Obama administration includes the signing of the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010,which allowed tribal courts to extend and expand sentences handed down to them in criminal cases,strengthening tribal autonomy. Obama also supported and enforced the Executive Order 13175,which requires the federal government to consult with tribal governments when deliberating over policies and programs that would affect tribal communities. Under the Obama Administration was also the launching of Michelle Obama's program Let's Move In Indian Country,which aims to improve opportunities for physical activity,to increase access to healthy food in tribal communities,and to create collaborations between private and public sectors to build programs that will end childhood obesity in Native communities. Obama also supported tribal communities through certain provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,which allocated $510 million for rehabilitation of Native American housing,and the settlement of the Keepseagle case,a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture for discriminating against tribal communities by not allowing them equal access to the USDA Farm Loan Program. Most recently,Obama signed Executive Order 13592,which seeks to improve educational opportunities for American Indian and Alaska Natives. Obama has been praised by many tribal leaders,including those who claim he has done more for Native Americans than all of his predecessors combined.
The Dakota Access Pipeline Protests,also called by the hashtag #NoDAPL,began in April 2016 as a grassroots opposition to the construction of Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access Pipeline in the northern United States and ended on February 23,2017 when National Guard and law enforcement officers evicted the last remaining protesters. The pipeline runs from the Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota to southern Illinois,crossing beneath the Missouri and Mississippi rivers,as well as under part of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Many members of the Standing Rock tribe and surrounding communities consider the pipeline to be a serious threat to the region's water. The construction also directly threatens ancient burial grounds and cultural sites of historic importance.
David Archambault II is the former (2013–2017) tribal chairman of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota. He was instrumental in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and continues to work to promote an understanding of the historical treaty rights and indigenous rights of Native American people. Archambault holds degrees in Business Administration and Management. In 2017 he joined FirstNation HealthCare as its chief consulting officer.
Deborah Parker,also known by her native name cicayalc̓aʔ,is an activist and indigenous leader in the United States. A member of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington,she served as its vice-chairwoman from 2012 to 2015 and is,as of July 2018,a board member for Our Revolution and the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center. She is also a co-founder of Indigenous Women Rise.
Katherine Paul is a Swinomish/Iñupiaq singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Portland,Oregon. Her music is influenced by post-rock,alternative rock,and Native American traditional music. She has released an EP and two albums under the moniker Black Belt Eagle Scout. Her self-titled EP as Black Belt Eagle Scout was released in June 2014. Her debut studio album,Mother of My Children,was first released by Portland tape label Good Cheer Records in 2017,then re-released in September 2018 by Saddle Creek Records. On April 26,2019,Saddle Creek released a new Black Belt Eagle Scout single titled "Loss &Relax" on a seven-inch vinyl backed with b-side track titled "Half Colored Hair”.
Harold C. Frazier is an American politician and tribal leader who is the former Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe,serving in that position since 2014. A member of the Democratic Party,Frazier serves concurrently as the Chairman of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association,a position he was elected to in 2018.
