FDI - Samish

The Lummi were sedentary coastal hunter/gatherers and relied heavily on fishing. The tribe lived on Samish Bay, Samish Island, Guemes Island, and the northwest portion of Fidalgo Island.. They were known to frequent a group of islands east of Vancouver Island. They suffered from the White influx. Subsequent to 1855, the Samish tribe is included in Lummi population numbers.

Year	*History*
1787	Strait of Juan de Fuca discovered by Charles Barkley
1788	Visited by Mears
1790	Manual Quimper explored both shores of strait
1792	Area charted by Capt. George Vancouver
1827	Hudson Bay Company founded Fort Langley
1841	Influx of Oregon Trail settlers began, conflicts followed
1850	Christianized by Rev. Casimir Chirouse
1855	Treaty of Point Elliot

Lummi Sites:

Boarding Schools Stripped Indians' Culture http://news.bellinghamherald.com/special-pub/centennial/160542.shtml

Coast Salish Bibliography http://home.istar.ca/~bthom/salish-rev.htm

Lhaq'temish: People of the Sea http://www.lummi-nsn.org/

Lummi and Nooksack Tribes http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjguides/natam2.html

Lummi Education http://news.bellinghamherald.com/photobook/lummi/

Lummi Healing Poles http://www.lummihealingpole.org/Press1.htm

Lummi Indian Nation http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1556.html

Lummi Indian Nation http://www.lwvwa.org/bellingham/try/lummination.htm

Lummi Indian Tribe and Life with Salmon http://www.sustainable.org/casestudies/washington/WA_af_lummi.html

Lummi Indians http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09431a.htm

Lummi Indians and Salmon http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/ted/lummi.htm

Lummi Nation http://www.northregionems.com/native/Lummi%20Nation.htm

Lummi National Profile http://www.npaihb.org/profiles/tribal_profiles/Washington/Lummi%20NationTribal%20Profile.htm

Lummi Place Premium on Recovering Language http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co06022001/CO_06022001_Lummi_Language.htm

Lummi School Sees Big Changes http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co09082001/CO_09082001_Lummi.htm

Lummi Sticks http://www.scoutinglinks.com/GSRC/game0010.htm

Lummi Totem Pole Ceremony http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2004/sp20040919-depsecdef0782.html

Lummi Totem Pole Memorial to WTC Victims http://www.whrtf.org/News/healingpole.html

More Indian Remain Found at Blaine Site http://www.mail-archive.com/nativenews@mlists.net/msg05013.html

Northern Puget Sound http://www3.csc.noaa.gov/npsec/html/human/tribes.htm

Plagued by Drugs, Tribes Revive Ancient Penalty http://www.susanohanian.org/atrocity_fetch.php?id=1645

Potlatch Economics http://www.cwis.org/fwj/22/potlatch.htm

Salish-Straits Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=STR

Salish-Straits Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=STR

Samish Indian Nation http://www.samishtribe.nsn.us/

Samish Island http://www.samishisland.net/history.htm

Samish Land Restored http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096409965

Samish Tribal Profile http://www.npaihb.org/profiles/tribal_profiles/Washington/SamishTribalProfile.htm

Samish Tribal Profile http://www.northregionems.com/native/Samish%20Nation.htm

Samish Tribe in San Juan Islands http://www.sanjuanislander.com/groups/samish_indians/naming.html

Schooling Has Lasted Lifetime for Lummi Cultural Teacher http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co06022001/CO_06022001_Lifetime_Schooling.htm

Treaty of Point Elliot http://historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2629

Treaty of Point Elliot ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wa/indians/treaties/pteliott.txt

Vancouver Begins British Survey of Puget Sound, 1792 http://historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5230

*Ethnie:*	SAMISH
*Language:*	Salish-Straits
*Family:*	Straits
*Stock:*	Central Salish
*Phylum:*	Salishan
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwest

Year	Population	Source
1700	200	NAHDB calculation
1780	200	NAHDB estimate based on Mooney estimate
1800	200	NAHDB calculation
1900	0	NAHDB calculation (Enumerated with Lummi)
2000	0	NAHDB calculation