Port Gamble S'Klallam Canoe Family

04/04/2026

Melissa P. (Suquamish); TJ V. Native scholarship available.

Last Call!! This could be the opportunity that changes everything.

WIGA Scholarship applications are due TONIGHT at 11:59 pm.

If it's on your to-do list, make it happen. We're rooting for you.

Apply now: https://www.washingtonindiangaming.org/scholarships/

06/18/2025

Breaks my heart she has not been identified after 45 years....💔 Isotope testing has shown she is possibly Canadian 🇨🇦 and possibly Native American.

Someone must be missing her....Please keep sharing...She deserves her name back...🙏

On July 17, 1980 the remains of an unidentified female were discovered in a heavily wooded area, one mile south of Eklutna Lake Road near mile post two in Eklutna Alaska.

The Jane Doe is believed to have been between 16 and 25 years of age. She was White with possible Native American admixture. She was between 4'11" and 5'1" and had long light brown hair with a red tint.

She was found wearing a brown leather jacket, a light colored knit sweater, jeans, and red knee-high high-heeled boots. She was also wearing a wide copper bracelet with three turquoise stones, a beaded necklace with a turquoise shell and single heart charm, gold hoop earrings and a gold ring with a white stone. A Timex wrist watch with a gold chain band, a gold case, a brown face and white hands was also located near the remains.

This unidentified female is a known victim of serial killer Robert Hanson, who murdered 17-21 women around Anchorage, Alaska between 1971-1983 😢

Please call the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST if you have any information that could help identify this female.

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02/09/2025

08/07/2024

03/10/2024

Auntie Louisa. Daughter of Charlie Jones, the whale rider of our people.

Known sometimes as Louisa, or “Grandma”, Louise Jones Pulsifer was the oldest member of the Skokomish tribe in Mason County at 96 years old. A beloved pillar of her community, Pulsifer was known for her friendly nature, her skills as a storyteller and her artistry, namely in the form of her expertly-woven baskets. From the age of nine, she began creating them out of cattails after seeing an elderly Skokomish woman do the same, and later incorporated sweet grass and bear grass as well, now under the woman’s mentorship. In this photo from 1964, she is pictured in her early eighties, surrounded by woven crafts, with two of her own handmade baskets in her lap.

As preservationist, Pulsifer dedicated countless years of time and attention to keeping her culture alive, despite beginning to go blind near the end of her life. Notably, her work includes continuing the use of the Skokomish language, Twana, both in its written and spoken forms – orally, she would translate her stories and legends while sharing them, and on paper, she contributed heavily to an official Twana dictionary. Her obituary recognizes her as having “saved” the language.

Fridays in March, we will recognize Washington women and their remarkable accomplishments in the 1960s and '70s.

Image from WSHS collection: Louise Pulsifer. Creation date: May 1964. Catalog ID: C1987.3.1.

07/29/2023

I love him, thank you Billy Frank Jr. For you many stands for treaty rights.

A Navajo-class towing, salvage, and rescue ship will be named the USNS Billy Frank Jr.