The Lummi ( ; Lummi: Xwlemi ; also known as Lhaq'temish, or People of the Sea), governed by the Lummi Nation, are a Native American tribe of the Coast Salish ethnolinguistic group in western Washington state in the United States. The tribe primarily resides on and around the Lummi Indian Reservation, at to the west of Bellingham and south of the Canadian border, in western Whatcom County.