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For centuries, Indians across the Pacific Northwest navigated the area’s waterways on canoes. And while much has changed for the dozens of tribes in the region, a two-week event hopes to keep the tradition alive.
Seven canoes landed at Owen Beach in Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park on Wednesday on the second day of Tribal Journey 2008. As each vessel approached the rocky shore, its skipper would stand, greet a member of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and ask permission to enter the tribe’s ceremonial waters.
“This really brings our elders and our youth together, paddling the pathways of our ancestors,” said Mark Anderson, the skipper of the Cowlitz tribe’s canoe. “There’s a great sense of unity, among ourselves and between tribes.
“Canoe families participate together, pull together, live together.”
The Puyallups later hosted the crews for dinner of salmon, geoduck fritters and other local specialties, and the participants camped together at Chief Leschi School in Puyallup.
More than 80 canoes representing tribes from Alaska to Western Washington are expected to arrive near Duncan, B.C., on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island when the journey concludes next week.
Wednesday’s participants launched from Solo Point near Fort Lewis shortly after 8 a.m., and they leave today for Alki Beach in Seattle.
The Liquor Control Board approved an Alcohol Impact Area in the South End and East Side of Tacoma today.
That means years of work have paid off for a group of dedicated residents. Cheap, high-powered booze (like OE800 and Tilt) can’t be sold within the area.
We’ve got intern Joyce Chen in Olympia for the hearing. I’ll post what she sends when I get it. Until then, you can read some background here.
Click below to read the press release
Another day on the reader rep desk, but we're going to have someone in Olympia for the vote by the state Liquor Control Board on an Alcohol Impact Area for the South End and East Side of Tacoma.
