Robert and Elizabeth Satiacum have six children and ten grandchildren. He hosts a radio show, Tribal Talk, which airs on KLAY in the Tacoma, Washington area, and founded the cultural activist coalition Full Circle. He also co-starred in the 2007 film Rain in the Mountains, in which he portrayed a tribal police officer. Starting in 2010, he has led an effort to officially re-name Mount Rainier to Ti'Swaq, the name of a band of Indian people who lived high on the mountain's slopes.