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WWU requests funding from Whatcom County Council for Longhouse

Whatcom County Council is considering a request from Western Washington University for $75,000 in funding for the creation of a traditional Coast Salish style Longhouse.

The council unanimously offered verbal support for the project at their meeting Tuesday, Feb. 22. Whatcom County…

2022-02-24
Journalist Brandi Morin presents about missing, murdered Indigenous women Oct. 12 2021-10-07
Ted George: "A heart filled with compassion"

Prominent education advocate, WWU alumnus, and former Port Gamble S’Klallam tribal councilman Ted George died on May 13 from natural causes. At age 92, George was the tribe’s oldest elder before his passing, the tribe says.

2021-06-03
Christopher ‘Caskey’ Russell Named New Dean of Western's Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies 2021-05-13
WWU to host Susan Burch May 18 for 'Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions' 2021-05-10
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