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Learn about Seattle’s public Indigenous art, the country’s first distillery on reservation land and a housing project rooted in Native culture.

For more than a dozen years, Stillwater® was the face of the “nomadic brewing” movement, brewing its innovative and eclectic beers at dozens of facilities around the globe.

The Indian Intercourse Act of 1834 — intended to regulate trade and “preserve the peace on the frontiers” — made the manufacturing of liquor in “Indian Country” illegal. Nearly 200 years later, the first Native-owned distillery on U.S. reservation land opened in Washington state.

After repealing a racist 1834 law, the tribes opened Talking Cedar in 2020 and will begin distilling their own spirits next week.