The Coast Salish woolly dog was once a fixture in communities across what’s known today as the Pacific ... ‘That’s where they kept the woolly dogs for this village,’” she recalls.

If you had been wandering the Coast Salish territories of British Columbia some 4,000 years ago, rambling dense woodland and visiting village longhouses, you would likely have spotted a number of ...

Debra qasen Sparrow recalls talking and learning about Coast Salish woolly dogs with her grandfather, Ed Sparrow, in her early days as a weaver. Born in 1898, Ed remembered seeing ...

The term Coast Salish refers to people from many different communities along the coast of the Salish Sea, near present-day southern British Columbia, Washington, and northern Oregon. Prior to colonial ...

For thousands of years, a village on Seattle's waterfront was used as the center for fishing and trade among the Coast Salish tribes. It was known as "Dzidzilalich." ...

Leaders from “Vancouver’s” top businesses got a lesson on Indigenous economics from three Coast Salish leaders last Thursday.

Long gone from existence, the Coast Salish Woolly Dog is brought back to life in the pages of a new book: The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog. Rich with stories from Musqueam ...

Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History led a new analysis that sheds light on the ancestry and genetics of woolly dogs, a now extinct breed of dog that was a fixture of ...

Tulalip artist James Madison created a Coast Salish sculpture for the outside walls of Everett's Municipal Building. It's there to remind all who enter that the land upon which the building sits ...

As early as 4000 years ago, the Coast Salish were feeding the ancestors as part of their burial ritual – a practice that continues today in the form of “burnings” -- like the one we witnessed in early ...

Call me Coast Salish or poet. Call me a girl who loves Nick Cave, and night swimming, and ramen, and old Bikini Kill records. I no longer wish to be called resilient.