Everett adds Coast Salish sculpture outside municipal building, taking ‘land acknowledgements’ to the next level

The city teamed up with Tulalip artists to put words into action.

EVERETT, Wash. — A growing number of cities across western Washington are formally acknowledging the fact the land we all live on once belonged to native people.

The City of Everett was one of the first to do so.

Officials took it one step further on Thursday by turning the spoken word into the physically tangible.

The downtown headquarters for Everett city government is not far from the ancestral villages where leaders of the Tulalip tribes once lived.

It was at this very spot that Native Americans and

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