Se’Si’Le (saw-see’-law) is the Lummi Indian word for “our grandmother.”

Our Mission is to utilize Indigenous ancestral knowledge for the benefit of our Mother Earth, Indigenous lifeways, and for future generations.

We offer strategies and plans to protect Indigenous sacred sites, areas, resources, and landscapes,  and to promote the understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing the nature of Nature.

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Se'Si'Le

CURRENT PROJECTS

Climate Change and Environmental Justice

We have had the unique opportunity to coordinate regional, national and international environmental campaigns in collaboration with a wide range of organizations. The goal of the Climate Change and Environmental Justice initiative is to consolidate and help strategically position an expanded field of collaboration led by indigenous peoples on the…

International Indigenous Forest Forum

October 18-21, 2024, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle The Forum will bring together Indigenous forest stewards and knowledge-keepers for five days to share ceremonies, experience and expertise, strategies, resources, networks, and develop avenues for collective action on climate change, environmental justice and threats to forest biodiversity. The Forum…

Right and Respectful Relations

In 2024, Se’Si’Le will produce two books on the theme of Right and Respectful Relations. The books will be authored by our Board Members and Senior Advisors, along with other indigenous writers, scholars, artists, and activists. Volume I will be available in June of 2024 and will address the theme Expressions of Right and Respectful Relations in…

XR Program

Engaging remembrance and the imagination through virtual reality Se’Si’Le is creating a unique XR Cultural Experience to be used in physical installations, schools, and educational environments. Virtual and Augmented Reality, or XR, allows for new and more immersive modes of storytelling and avenues for a radical re- imagining of our relationship…

Indigeneity, Ecology, and Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Se’Si’Le (saw-see’-law) is an indigenous-led nonprofit in Washington State. Our name, Se’Si’Le, means “our grandmother” in Xw’lemi-chosen (the language of the Lummi Indians). “We sit in the lap of Mother Earth learning all there is to learn…not all at once, but built up over a lifetime, every day.We need to keep learning.To never quit learning.”--…
Ey Kw’elhsh en-sela’lexw
Take good care of your elders
JOURNEYS

All Our Relations

All Our Relations

Snake River Dams Campaign
Sept-Oct 2023
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Spirit of the Waters

Spirit of the Waters

Totem Pole Journey Campaign
May/June 2022
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Red Road To DC

Red Road to DC

Sacred Obligations (Red Road) Totem Pole Journey to Washington, DC
May/June, 2021
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