The Duwamish tribe will hold an open house celebration Jan. 21 featuring new a Duwamish film, cultural program & reception. Celebrate the heritage of Greater Seattle's First People, Chief Seattle's Duwamish Tribe. Open house, 10-5, visit exhibit areas and art gallery.

Festivities include:
10am Duwamish Film—Promised Land, 1
2pm--Reception,
1-3pm Cultural Program with special guests & native storytelling.
Duwamish Heritage Group will invite friends to join in song and dance. Free admission & parking.

Duwamish Longhouse

It is the 8th Anniversary of the building of the first Duwamish Longhouse since the last one was burned down in West Seattle in 1894 to push the Duwamish off their land. In 1851, there were over 90 Duwamish Longhouses. Opened in 2009, the Longhouse is a traditional cedar post and beam structure designed in the Puget Salish Longhouse style. It houses a Native Art Gallery, Duwamish History Museum, Gift Shop, Duwamish Tribal Offices, and traditional Longhouse. As in ancient times, Longhouse is the site where tribal business is conducted and cultural & educational events are held.

Promised Land—Longhouse premiere of new Duwamish documentary

This new documentary “Promised Land” revisits Chief Seattle’s Duwamish Tribe’s continuing struggle for justice in its own land. The filmmakers & Duwamish tribal leaders will be present for a brief discussion after the film to be followed by a reception.

PROMISED LAND is a social justice documentary that follows two tribes in the Pacific Northwest: the Duwamish and the Chinook, as they fight for the restoration of treaty rights they've long been denied. The film examines a larger problem in the way that the government and society still looks at tribal sovereignty. Produced and directed by Vasant and Sarah Samudre Salcedo, and sponsored by 4Culture and San Francisco Film Society.

Promised Land debuted in select theaters fall 2016. It received an award for Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking at the 10th Annual LA Skins Fest, and was an official selection for the 41st Annual American Indian Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum's 19th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival, the 12th Annual Ellensburg Film Festival, and the 5th Annual Social Justice Film Festival, among others.

More information about the film can be found at promisedlanddoc.com and on the film's Facebook page: facebook.com/promisedlanddoc.