✨2025 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration ✨
nilh tu o: Weaving the Past, Present and Future
📅 Monday, October 13, 2025
🕠 Doors open: 5:30 p.m. (with dinner service)
🎤 Program: 6:00–8:00 p.m.
💃 Jam + dancing: 8:00 p.m.–late
📍 Location: Lummi Nation School - 2334 Lummi View Dr, Bellingham, WA

🍽️ Dinner, community, student speakers, music, and dancing — come celebrate with us!

Please join our local community in celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This year’s theme is: nilh tu o: Weaving the Past, Present and Future. Nilh tu o (pronounced Neesh tu o) translates from Xwlemi language to “since the beginning/creation".

We will enjoy a community dinner catered by local caterer Seawolf Surf n Turf managed by local business owner Cesarita Ballew.

🌎 All are welcome! This family-friendly, intergenerational community event for everyone in Whatcom County, invites students from: Lummi Nation School, Northwest Indian College, Whatcom Community College, Bellingham Technical College, Ferndale & Bellingham School Districts & Western Washington University to collaborate and plan together. This event is sponsored by the Community Consortium for Cultural Recognition.
Learn more at: wwu.edu/indigenous-peoples-day

Please note we are not the hosts of this event, but supporters and look forward to attending this event together!