The Muckleshoot
Indian Tribe are descendants of the area’s original Coast Salish people.
Their homeland is the
Puget Sound region
which lies nestled
between two great
northwest Mountain ranges – The Cascades and the Olympics.
As the Pacific Ocean travels inland for hundreds of miles
to fill its countless bays and inlets, it transforms the Puget
Sound region into one of the most productive ecosystems on
earth. Its vast natural resource of wild salmon runs have supported a large
population of Native peoples for thousands of years and continues to supply the
Muckleshoot Indians with both
food and income. Originally they used spears, traps and weirs
to harvest the salmon but
today with the help of modern fishing
tools, they harvest large quantities
of wild salmon.
In the midst of this bountiful harvest, the Muckleshoot Indians have never forgotten their ancestral roots and the reverence due the salmon and its life sustaining presence in their culture. To ensure the future runs of the Puget Sound natural wild salmon, the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe has invested in a staff of full time fish biologists. They co-manage the fisheries in three major river systems of the Puget Sound Region – the White, Green and Cedar River.
