Tulalip Tribe Research Paper

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Tulalip tribe is Indian tribe admitted by federal government, which is located on the Tulalip reservation in the mid-Puget Sound area bordered on the east by Interstate 5 and the city of Marysville. Tulalip tribe is a place where government allow the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skyimish, and other allied bands living in. the Tulalip tribe’s land cover 22,000 acres. The Tulalip tribe has abundant nature resources to supply their people’s normal life such as “marine waters, tidelands, fresh water creeks and lakes, wetlands, forests and developable land” ( who we are). Also, they have their unique language to communicate with their people which is Lushootseed –Coastal Salish. Because the traditional language should be extend, they have one master language …show more content…

In the past, because the glaciers disappeared slowly can make people have a low temperature, clean water during the summer, but at the same time the salmon begin and end their lives. With temperature getting warmer and our glaciers melting, every stage of salmon’s life cycle is getting hurt. According to the article “Tribes are reacting to climate change” written by Billy Frank Jr., we can find that the Tulalip tribes are trying to study ocean acidification, and climate change bring side-effect. And they also research for “The chemistry of the ocean and Puget Sound is changing because water absorbs carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuels. The Tulalip Tribes are paying careful attention to acidification's impacts on local eel grass beds while protecting the remaining beds.” In fact, the Tulalip hold an opinion that they have no idea whether they can change climate change or not, although they do want to do it. But, meanwhile, what they need to do is to protect the salmon and habitat as many as they can. …show more content…

As we know, the climate change is extremely important issue which is deeply related to our life. Although they have plentiful nature resources and they do get the benefit from the glacier melted, they pay more attention to the long-term development- to protect their nature resources and find solution. Also, this tribe emphasized the development of education, in order to meet more people’s demand, they prepared to build elementary school so that can contain more students. Meanwhile, they had held event to attract more travelers and develop their economic. This tribe become to a more likely modernization

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