If you're interested in learning more about the local tribes, I want to refresh this piece @cocoalaney.bsky.social and I put together last year about the Nooksack language revitalization efforts and learn the Nooksack words for some local landmarks.

I pulled over to take in the view following the Lummi Nation School's Indigenous Peoples Day assembly. As we reside on unceded land, it's important to acknowledge those who have tended it since time immemorial.

The arch was erected in 2018 to memorialize these events as well as the 1885 expulsion of Chinese immigrants and the 1942 internment of people of Japanese descent.

On Sept. 4, 1907, a mob of hundreds of white men attacked the homes of Indian immigrants working in local lumber mills. Driven by the Asiatic Exclusion League, the mob forced more than 100 immigrants to flee Bellingham.

Sure, people including myself aren’t denoising every single picture, but I’m photographing a lot of high school sports, poorly lit indoor events, etc. so it’s a tool I’ve come to use often.

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