Layne Jorgensen, 9, plays with the seaweed on Mission Beach near her family's home. This is their third summer in Tulalip from their home at Mill Creek.

While fishing in Tulalip Bay on the west side of Hermosa Point, the power went off and the net had to be pulled in by hand on Bernie Gobin's boat. Nick Gobin is on the left.

Cheyenne Marcellany, who attends college and works at the Tulalip Casino as a hostess, jokes around with her boyfriend's brother, Kyle Moses, 7, at a softball game in Marysville. The Tulalip softball team plays in the Marysville Parks and Recreation league.

Pete Hansen talks to LeRoy Joseph, the owner and chef of Slo-Joe's Cafe at the Tulalip Marina.

Fishing begins at dawn in Tulalip Bay on the west side of Hermosa Point on Bernie Gobin's boat. The casino has replaced fishing as the area's main way of making a living.

Bernie Gobin shouts orders to his crew from the flying bridge of his boat. Gobin, who has been fishing for 61 of his 69 years, is an elder in the Tulalip tribe. He is officially retired, but can't stay away.

Tulalip Bay firefighter Keegan Reinke clears the hoses after a small brush fire on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. Fire District 15 of the Snohomish County Firefighters is the only district in the United States that is entirely reservation land. The firefighters get approximately 500 calls per year, many of them brush fires.

Arnold Cheer, 6, bounded up and down on a fallen tree over Mission Bay for a little summer entertainment before school began this week.

Stan Jones has been fishing Tulalip Bay and Alaskan waters for 44 of his 73 years, and has served on the Tulalip Tribal Council for the past 34 years. But, he says, the fishing isn't what it used to be.