Johnny Moses
Johnny Moses, also known by the traditional name Whis.stem.men.knee, or Walking Medicine Robe, is a Nuu-chah-nulth and Tulalip Coast Salish storyteller, singer, oral historian and cultural educator. Smithsonian Folkways identifies him as “Nuu-chah-nulth and Coast Salish Tulalip,” and SIUE describes him as a “Nuu-chah-nulth and Tulalip Coastal Salish tradition-bearer.”
Moses has also been described as a Tulalip Native American master storyteller, oral historian, healer and spiritual leader. Jack Straw Cultural Center describes him as a “Tulalip Native American master storyteller, oral historian, healer and spiritual leader.”
Moses’s work is associated with storytelling, oral history, medicine songs and cultural traditions of Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Moses received the Washington Governor’s Heritage Award in 2012. ArtsWA’s official list includes Johnny Moses among the 2012 Governor’s Arts & Heritage Awards honorees.
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