Native Americans

ID: 634 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the National Park Service

This file appears in: Native Americans on San Juan Island during the Joint Occupation

These are the ancestors of the current Lummi Nation who lived on San Juan Island.

This file appears in: Native Americans on San Juan Island during the Joint Occupation

Native Americans on San Juan Island during the Joint Occupation – Admiration and Tension

We often look at the Joint Occupation of the San Juans (1860-1872) through the eyes of the British and American citizens and soldiers who faced off and vied for supremacy. But the original Native inhabitants, the Straits Salish Indians, maintained a…