Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Department

Welcome to the Cultural Resources Department's page

Enclosed are a few of the things going on for the Members of the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe.

We will be working on doing a Calendar shortly.

Please contact Dora Dailey with your input and needs regarding Cultural Events.

Please offer us days of the month and week for Cultural Activities that will work to ensure your attendance. We are working on weekly Cultural Activity Night now, but need your input for Saturday Cultural Activity Days. Maybe one or two Saturdays a month.

We will be working on an annual calendar for Cultural Events, such as;

Gathering trips for

Cedar Bark,

Various Berries,

Bear Grass,

Roots,

Tubers,

Cattails,

Tules,

Teas, etc.

Events like

Tribal Journeys,

SSIT Powwow,

The Big Walk,

Attending Elders Day’s with other Tribes, Etc.

We are hoping to make opportunities for the Membership to learn, teach, share and know one another in regard to our culture.

SSIT is working with Astrida Onat to develop the historical ground work on establishing some our treaty rights. She has been touch with the Brown Family and set a date to interview and collect data Saturday October 22, 2011 at the SSIT Community Building.

And tentatively she would like to meet with the Enick Family on Sunday, October 23 at the SSIT Community Building.

Astrida is hoping to meet with the Price Family sometime in November before Thanksgiving. Please contact me regarding potential times and places so that we can facilitate your meeting.

She also would like to set up a date with our Moses family in this same time frame. Please speak with other family to develop a potential date as well and I will also support your meeting.

A number of our people will need to attend more than one of these family meetings according to our ancestry.

Your input is important no matter how fragmented or small the detail. Your attendance is important not only for sharing information but to hear the stories and experiences of our families.

Last month SSIT Council appointed Dora Dailey the Interim LongHouse Committee Chairman to establish an appropriate Committee in accordance to the LongHouse Code and the practices of our tribal ancestry and families. I would like to encourage any tribal member to attend. Especially, those wanting to serve on the LongHouse Committee.

Chapter Five LongHouse Committee

5.030 LongHouse Committee Qualifications

In order to be qualified for appointment to the LongHouse Committee, a person must:

1. Be at least one quarter (1/4) blood Indian: and

2. Be a resident of either Snohomish or Skagit County;

3. Provided that, at all times at least (2) members of the Committee must be a members of the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe and one (1) must be a member of the Tribal Council.

Tribal Members are encouraged to attend whether qualified for membership of the committee. Membership input is important for all matters of our culture.

Please let me know which Saturday of the month would work best.

Dora Dailey Office: (360)436-2204

5318 Chief Brown Lane Cell: (360)722-1732

Darrington WA 98241 Email: dldailey@sauk-suiattle.com

If there are any questions please free to contact us at: (360)436-2204

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