Swinomish provide food, rest for Canoe families
Share
Tweet
August 1, 2018
READY TO REST AFTER A LONG JOURNEY – On a beautiful Monday afternoon, July 23, the canoe families traversing the inland passage came down the Swinomish Channel for rest and celebration with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. The 110 canoes and their families are in Puyallup for festivities ending Saturday. – Photo by Don Coyote
On a perfectly sunlit summer afternoon last week, pricey yachts were upstaged on Swinomish Channel by a caravan of canoes.
Not just any canoes, mind you.
These were the colorfully painted tribal canoes being pulled from village to village over Northwest waters in both British Columbia and western Washington as part of the 2018 Canoe Journey.
The annual event pays tribute to ancestral use of canoes on waterways as means of trade, travel and making cultural connections.
This year’s route made Swinomish a key stopping point five days removed from the canoes reaching their destination in Puyallup,...
For access to this article please
sign in or
subscribe.
Reader Comments(0)