Join more than 300 coastal indigenous elders, leaders,
cultural practitioners, scientists and witnesses, as well
as non-tribal participants, for the first national U.S.
symposium addressing the impacts of climate change on
coastal indigenous peoples.
This inaugural event will be hosted by the coastal treaty
tribes of Washington state—the Hoh, Makah, and
Quileute Tribes and the Quinault Indian Nation—in
collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National