Nisqually Indian Tribe

Freshly caught chum salmon display their greens and pink colors like the aurora, in December on the Nisqually River.

‘It just tastes like time’: Salmon are a sacred relative to the Nisqually tribe and Native Americans across the Northwest

(Runtime 3:54) On a tall bluff that overlooks the south Puget Sound in one direction and sparkling headlights on Interstate 5 in another, members of the…

Nisqually tribal fisher Willie Frank III holds a freshly caught chinook, or king, salmon at the Nisqually River, where his family has fished for generations. The chinook being caught are from the Nisqually Indian Tribe's hatcheries. (Credit: Annie Warren / NWPB)

National News

Billy's magic: Tribal leader’s fierce fight for fishing rights to be honored with a statue in Washington, D.C.

Anna King

When the sun-warmed blackberries are ready in late summer — so are the king salmon.So said Willie Frank III, the son of well-known Nisqually environmental…

Chay Squally and Sarah Colleen Sotomish at the Nisqually Indian Tribal Summit on May 4. Photo courtesy of Debbie Preston.

Local News

Nisqually Tribe’s sovereignty summit focuses on MMIWP crisis

Washington state has one of the largest numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples cases in the nation.On May 4, the Nisqually Indian Tribe’s Annual Protecting Our Sovereignty Tribal Summit focused on the missing and murdered Indigenous peoples crisis.