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Coast Salish Culture and Stories

Coast Salish peoples have called this area home since time immemorial. These books recognize the Puget Sound's indigenous history and celebrate the work that modern artists, poets, and thought leaders do to honor Coast Salish culture.

Whatcom County Library System

20 items

  • Jesintel

    Living Wisdom From Coast Salish Elders

    Book, 2023Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023] — 971.1004/9794 23
  • Where the Language Lives

    Vi Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed

    Yoder, Janet
    Book, 2022Seattle : Girl Friday Books, 2022. — 979.7004 YODER 2022
  • Haboo

    Native American Stories From Puget Sound

    Book, 2020Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]. — 979.0049 HABOO 2020
  • Interwoven Lives

    Indigenous Mothers of Salish Coast Communities

    Wellman, Candace,
    Book, 2019Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2019]. — 979.773 WELLMAN 2019
  • I Sing the Salmon Home

    Poems From Washington State

    Book, 2023Chimacum, Washington : Empty Bowl Press, [2023]. — 811.608 23
  • Invisible No More

    Voices From Native America

    Book, 2023Washington ; Covelo : Island Press, [2023] — 305.897 INVISIBL 2023
  • Project 562

    Changing the Way We See Native America

    Wilbur, Matika,
    Book, 2023California ; New York : Ten Speed Press, [2023]. — 970.0049 WILBUR 2023
  • A Line of Blood and Dirt

    Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands

    Hoy, Benjamin,
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] — 320.12 HOY 2021
  • Homewaters

    a Human and Natural History of Puget Sound

    Williams, David B., 1965-
    Book, 2021Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]. — 304.2091 WILLIAMS 2021
  • Island Fishing

    History and Seascape of Marine Harvesting in the San Juan Islands Amid the Salish Sea

    Pratt, Boyd C.,
    Book, 2021Friday Harbor : Mulno Cove Publishing, [2021] — PRATT
  • Peace Weavers

    Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-cultural Marriages

    Wellman, Candace
    Book, 2017Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, 2017. — 305.8009 WELLMAN 2017
  • Salish Blankets

    Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth

    Tepper, Leslie Heyman, 1947-
    Book, 2017Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]. — 677.0282 TEPPER 2017
  • Bitterroot

    a Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption

    Harness, Susan Devan,
    Book, 2018Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]. — HARNESS, SUSAN DEV Harness
  • Rights Remembered

    a Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future

    Hillaire, Pauline, 1929 or 1931-2016
    Book, 2016Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]. — Biography HILLAIRE, PAULINE Hillaire
  • Katie Gale

    a Coast Salish Woman's Life on Oyster Bay

    De Danaan, Llyn
    Book, 2013Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]. — B GALE DE.DANAA 2013
  • Interweaving Coast Salish Cultural Systems

    the Collected Works of Pamela Thorsen Amoss

    Amoss, Pamela,
    Book, 2017Richland, WA : Journal of Northwest Anthropology, 2017. — 970.004/97 23
  • DVD, 2013[Edwardsville, Ill.?] : WoRKS Group, p2013. — DVD 704.0397 COAST.SA
  • Book, 2009Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009. — 398.2097 FOLK.TAL 2009