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Whatcom County’s first Native American judge to be sworn in Friday

Raquel Montoya-Lewis, 46, will be sworn in on Friday, Jan. 16, as the first Native American judge in Whatcom County Superior Court.

Gov. Jay Inslee plans to attend the ceremony, open to the public, at 3:30 p.m. in County Council chambers at the courthouse, 311 Grand Ave. Inslee’s office…

2015-01-14
Judge with tribal background appointed to Superior Court

A longtime tribal judge will become Washington’s only Native American Superior Court judge when she starts this month on the bench in Whatcom County.

Raquel Montoya-Lewis, who has been the Chief Judge for the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian Tribes, was appointed to a new seat on the…

2015-01-06
Jack presents on self-silencing research at Boston conference 2015-01-02
National Endowment for the Arts awards fellowship to Vanderbilt MFA student

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a literary arts fellowship to Anders Carlson-Wee, a second-year poetry student in Vanderbilt’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Carlson-Wee, a former professional rollerblader, will receive a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. This $25,…

2014-12-18
Whatcom’s new Superior Court judge has tribal background

Whatcom County will have its first Native American Superior Court judge in 2015.

When Raquel Montoya-Lewis begins her term in January, she also will be the only Superior Court judge of tribal descent in the state.

2014-12-16
After 46 years at Western, Larner to retire 2014-12-08
Retirement party for Dan Larner is Dec. 10 2014-12-04
Concert features songs about death

“Moving the Bones: Lively Songs about Death,” a free concert that is part of “The Art of Death: Shifting the Way We Look at Death” series of events, takes place 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, at Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College auditorium on South College Drive. Performing are Laurel…

2014-10-03
Human rights, history of indigenous peoples among topics in WWU lecture series

Items such as human rights in Honduras and the history of indigenous people in the United States will be discussed by activists, researchers, and scholars in the Fall World Issues Forum lecture series, organized by Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies.…

2014-10-01
Fairhaven College announces fall World Issues Forum slate 2014-09-29
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