Oral History Interview with Darrell Hillaire

Darrell Hillaire is the Executive Director of Children of the Setting Sun Productions. He served several terms on the Lummi Indian Business Council including as Chair. Retiring from the Council in 2008 he founded and ran the Lummi Youth Academy. In 2013 he wrote the acclaimed play What About Those Promises? about the Treaty of Point Elliot and founded Children of the Setting Sun Productions to stage the play. He has since led the growth of Children of the Setting Sun Productions into a four-pronged organization: 1) Collecting and retelling Indigenous Stories; 2) Developing youth leadership in digital storytelling; 3) making a full documentary series on Native Salmon Peoples in the Western United States and Canada; and 4) providing commercial video & audio services. He is the coeditor of the book Jesintel: Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders (2023).