Why the Duwamish?

This region has been continuously inhabited for more than a thousand generations. The village of tohl-AHL-too ("herring house"), at the mouth of the Duwamish river, had been inhabited at least since the 6th century CE, near where the Dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish) Longhouse now sits. It is for Chief Siah’l - that Seattle takes its name, even though the Duwamish remain a federally unrecognized tribe.

This watershed is at the intersection of indigenous sovereignty, equity, circular economy, distributed energy production, transportation, estuary regeneration; home to heavy industry such as the port, Boeing, recycling and waste treatment, cement factories, artist studios, residential neighborhoods in a food desert, and is currently a super fund site, where the soil cannot currently support edible crop production. This is emblematic of the challenge we face in poly-crisis, but also gives the incredible opportunity to imagine and dream together,

What does a regenerate future look like for this area? What could a regenerative future look like for the Cascadia bioregion? How do we fund and see people supported to make this happen?