TULALIP — Drum beats pounded through the elementary school gymnasium, as young people in colorful traditional tribal clothing danced in the center of the room. Around them, students sitting on the ...
TULALIP — Every January, tribes gather at the longhouse overlooking Tulalip Bay to mark the signing of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott. It’s a time to gather, sing and dance, in traditional ways that ...
TULALIP — Kids barely old enough to walk joined their relatives and friends dancing to a steady drumbeat that echoed off the wood-paneled walls and century-old tree trunks of the Tulalip Tribes’ ...