Upper Skagit

“The Upper Skagit people are descendants of aboriginal bands that inhabited 11 villages from the foothills of the Cascades to the Puget Sound. The Upper Skagit Reservation lies in the uplands of the Skagit River Valley, east of Sedro-Woolley in Skagit County and near Exit 236 along Interstate 5 just north of Burlington near Alger.

Flowing more than 125 miles from glaciers in the Canadian Cascade Mountains, through old-growth forests and farmlands to Skagit Bay in the Puget Sound, the Skagit River is one of western Washington’s largest rivers. It is one of the few rivers that sustain its entire original wild salmon species: Chinook, Chum, Coho, Pink, and Sockeye.”

To learn more, please visit the Upper Skagit Tribe website.

Children’s Picture Books

• Loon and Deer Were Traveling: A Story of the Upper Skagit by Vi Hilbert (Read-Aloud)

Children’s Fiction

• I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

• The Sea in Winter by Christine Day

Non-fiction

• Haboo Native American Stories from Puget Sound by Vi Hilbert

• Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  By Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe