Native Heritage
 Explore Skagit Valley’s native heritage through nature, art, historical museums, and salmon exhibits. North Cascades National Park is home to a historic site of a 1400-year-old Indian hunting camp on the Rock Shelter Trail in Newhalem. View spawning salmon in autumn at the Northern State Recreation area and explore the restored salmon habitat of Hanson Creek. Explore Indian art outdoors. There is an interactive salmon wheel at Totem Pole Plaza in front of La Conners Maple Hall on First Street by master carver Kevin Paul. Totem poles can be viewed at the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community center, La Conner’s Maple Hall, and the Maiden of Deception Pass at Deception Pass State Park on the Fidalgo Island side of the park between Rosario Beach and Bowman Bay. View a dugout Indian canoe around the corner from La Conner’s Maple Hall. After viewing Maiden of Deception Pass by Bowman Bay, it’s an easy drive to the Island County Historical Museum in Coupeville where several Indian carved canoes are on display. If you are heading toward the Clinton/Mukilteo ferry, visit the “treaty grounds” where the Treaty of Point Elliott was signed. In Mukilteo – there’s a little known plaque on the hill above the ferry landing that commemorates the site.
Featured Sites:
The Swinomish Experience..Past, Present & Future
Samish Indian Nation/Culture
People of the North Cascades
Related Sites:
Anacortes Museum
Deception Pass Foundation
Island County Historical Museum
North Cascades National Park Rock Shelter Trail
Northern State Recreation Area
Padilla Bay Natural Estuarine Research Reserve
Skagit County Historical Museum
Sunnyside Cemetery/History of Contact Period
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