‘They’re not new to our people’: Washington state tribes grapple with floods

Freddie Lane, an enrolled member of Lummi Nation, has watched his people’s lands flood since his childhood on the Whatcom County reservation.

Around the world, Indigenous people have their flood stories,” he said. “These great floods and whatnot — they’re not new to our people.”

But Lane depicted the current floods as “pretty biblical.”…

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