The calendar this year focuses on traditional storytellers. Gifted storytellers can engage their listeners by animating voices, using gestures and creating the sounds of nature. Through these techniques people are able to visualize the story and ultimately remember the story.
This calendar features 12 Lushootseed storytellers, though there were countless others over the millennia. Below each storyteller you’ll see a QR code that will take you to the storyteller’s page at TulalipLushootseed.com and links to some of the stories associated with them.

Physical calendars will be available at our office, the dxʷdigʷitəgʷəlalʔtxʷ (administration building), dəxʷhəliʔil (heath clinic), wiw̓su ʔə ti sʔuladxʷ (Betty J Taylor Early Learning Academy) and the Hibulb Cultural Center by December 15, 2023

Download 2024 dxʷləšucidəladxʷ here

58(32.4%)This placemat contains various phrases around the use of numbers and and mathematics.
A QR code directs your smartphone to a webpage, so you can listen to all the phrases, and words for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 
There’s also the words referring to standard measurements used in traditional times.

Playing with Numbers in Lushootseed

Heavy laminated Lushootseed Mathematics mats are available at the Lushootseed Department office.

Song written and sung by Maria Martin.

November 7 Deadline for Washington State voter registration or updates (in person only).

November 7 General Election – Deposit your ballot in an official drop box by 8 p.m. on Election Day.

Find your closest Drop Box here.

Daylight savings time ends  – ʔuhuəxʷ x̌ədid ʔə ti sləx̌    (finished saving of the light)

Clock –  ʔaləxʷk̓ʷid – (device for what time)

Move clock forward – pədyəhaw̓ – (Time to proceed)

Move Clock back – pədbəlkʷ (Time to turn back clock)

Smoke detector – səxʷƛ̕aʔapəq̓ʷ (Device to alert there’s smoke)

Battery – səxʷkacacutulč  (device for lightning (electricity) container)