• Look up Lummi or lummi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lummi most commonly refers to: Lummi people, a Coast Salish people located in western Washington...
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    The Lummi (Lummi dialect: Xwlemi or Lhaq'temish) are a Central Coast Salish people Indigenous to western Washington, namely parts of the San Juan Islands...
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    Lummi Island lies at the southwest corner of Whatcom County, Washington, United States, between the mainland part of the county and offshore San Juan...
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    Cynthia Marie Lummis Wiederspahn (/ˈlʌmɪs/ LUH-miss; born September 10, 1954) is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States...
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    The Lummi Nation (/ˈlʌmi/ LUH-mee; Lummi: Xwlemi [xʷləˈmi] or Lhaq'temish; officially known as the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation) is a federally-recognized...
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  • Lummis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ben Lummis (born 1978), New Zealand pop and R&B singer Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859–1928)...
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  • Lummi sticks, named after the Lummi Native American peoples, are hardwood cylindrical sticks, usually roughly 7 inches long and 0.75 inches in diameter...
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  • Lummi (Xwlemi Chosen, IPA: [xʷləmi tʃɔsən]) is a dialect of the North Straits Salish language traditionally spoken by the Lummi people of northwest Washington...
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  • C. Douglas Lummis is a writer, former professor at Tsuda College in Tokyo and former U.S. Marine. Lummis was born in 1936 in San Francisco. He attended...
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    Charles Fletcher Lummis (March 1, 1859, in Lynn, Massachusetts – November 25, 1928, in Los Angeles, California) was a United States journalist, and an...
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    of the Canada–US border. The mountain's name Shuksan is derived from the Lummi word [šéqsən], said to mean "high peak". The highest point on the mountain...
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    Canon William Murrell Lummis MC (4 June 1886 – 2 November 1985) was a British military historian most noted for the research he conducted on the Victoria...
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  • Lummis Day is a signature community arts and music event in the neighborhoods of Northeast Los Angeles, showcasing the community's considerable pool of...
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    she was renamed Lolita after the heroine in Vladimir Nabokov's novel. The Lummi Nation of Washington refers to her as Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, or, a female...
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    Lummis House, also known as El Alisal, is a Rustic American Craftsman stone house built by Charles Fletcher Lummis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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    Dayton Lummis (August 8, 1903 – March 23, 1988) was an American film, television and theatre actor. He was perhaps best known for playing the role of General...
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    independently organized after additional settlement. Its name derives from the Lummi word Xwotʼqom, also spelled [x̣ʷátqʷəm], perhaps meaning 'noisy' or 'noisy...
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    for $2.2 million from the Department of the Interior and returned to the Lummi Nation. The tribe agreed to manage the property as an open space open to...
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    United States. It is separated from the Lummi Peninsula by Portage Bay and from the central part of Lummi Island by Hale Passage, in Whatcom County...
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  • coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Lummi River is the current name for a river channel that was, prior to the beginning...
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    Elizabeth Fries Ellet (née Lummis; October 18, 1818 – June 3, 1877) was an American writer, historian and poet. She was the first writer to record the...
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    in Ferndale, Washington, United States. It is owned and operated by the Lummi Nation. It opened in 2002 and is the largest Casino resort within the Bellingham...
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    individuals. Lolita, also known as Tokitae, or as Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut to the Lummi, was captured during the 1970 Penn Cove capture, and died on August 18,...
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    vehicles to Lummi Island from Gooseberry Point west of Bellingham, Washington. The Gooseberry Point terminal is situated on land belonging to the Lummi Nation...
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    Straits are as follows: (†) marks a dialect that has no native speakers. Lummi (Lummi: Xwlemi Chosen) Saanich (Saanich: SENĆOŦEN, W̱SÁNEĆḴEN) Samish (Samish:...
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  • Ben Lummis (born Isileli Junior Brown on 1 June 1978) is a New Zealand R&B/pop/gospel recording artist who rose to musical fame as the winner of the first...
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    under the water,’” according to former Lummi tribal chairman Jay Julius. Lolita was viewed as a member of the Lummi Nation's family, and they believed that...
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  • Chow-its-hoot (also spelled as Cha-wit-zit or Chowitsuit) is a Lummi name. Several Lummi individuals carried this name. The name means "Strong Man"...
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  • of the Canada–US border, on the Strait of Georgia between Birch Bay and Lummi Bay. Completed in 1971, its design and construction was overseen by George...
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    Spanish-sounding, names and pronunciations. In 1908, librarian Charles Fletcher Lummis, who argued for the name's pronunciation with a hard g (/ɡ/), reported that...
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