The landscape and seascape at Cherry Point, near Bellingham, Wash. is known in the Lummi language as Xwe’chi’eXen. “For thousands of years, and continuing to this day, our people have lived here, fished here, gathered plants here, raised families here, and buried loved ones here,” said Lummi Nation Chairman Anthony Hillaire.

Author Archives: Isaac Stone Simonelli
Staff reporter at Cascadia Daily News.