Dr. Mike Tulee is the executive director of United Indians of All Tribes Foundation. His organization is working to make a closer connection to tribal culture in Seattle with the addition of a new 1,200-square-foot Canoe Carving House on the western edge of Lake Union Park.

“Local Native culture, people are closely connected to trees and through those trees to canoes,” said Ken Workman, a Duwamish Tribe council member who called the siting of a carving space on Lake Union “absolutely fantastic.”

The groundbreaking of the carving center will take place later this year. You can find the full article here.