Even as woolly dogs have disappeared, Coast Salish weaving has continued. Michael Pavel, from the Skokomish-Twana Indian Nation, said that a renaissance in traditional wool weaving has grown the ...

Aspen Decker, who was awarded first place in the Montana Museum of Art and Culture’s (MMAC) inaugural “19 Under 39 ...

As a lot of traditions were lost through residential schools and what happened to my culture, Salish weaving was one that was almost extinct in this territory. Three of my aunts, Deborah Sparrow ...

She designed and created a 10’ Weaving Governance panel for her final MBA Capstone Project, researching traditional laws of the land, to help re-instate the value of Coast Salish weavings as Holders ...

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, ...

Weaving is especially important to Sparrow and the other weavers on the panel because of their role in its revival after disappearing for 85 years among the Coast Salish after contact with ...

Like the chief of the salmon people, who in Coast Salish teachings leads the salmon ... ancestors and relatives today use to spin wool for weaving. The patterns of the work are rendered in the ...