The chief says he is growing weary of so much death from the drug. The pills can easily be mistaken for candy. With Halloween about a month away, he is warning parents, guardians, and really anyone, to be on alert. So, the drugs are coming from the outside. It departs from the Convention Center, with a schedule that departs at different times on different days. The chief says the person arrested was not a Tribal member. It’s not going to just magically disappear out of our existence.” “So, these things happened 100 years ago. “These are just things that are the effect, the ripple effect of being in generational trauma,” said Shelbi Hatch, a Tulalip and Native American liaison for the Marysville School District. The impact has been felt across this tight-knit community. And one of the four who died, he says, was on the Tulalip reservation. Chief Sutter confirmed fentanyl was responsible. Last week, the Lummi Nation posted on social media after four deaths on that reservation near Bellingham.
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