The 2009 Tribal Canoe Journey is underway, with crews from the U.S. and Canada headed to the Port Madison Reservation in Washington for a weeklong celebration.
The event began in 1989. Every year, a different tribe hosts the closing Canoe Journey potlach. The Suquamish Tribe is expecting thousands on the reservation from August 3-8.
Today, ten canoes from the U.S. are being hosted by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe before heading to the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe and the
Tulalip Tribes at the end of the week.
The Canadian route was due to stop on the Songhees First Nation in British Columbia yesterday but only a few paddlers showed up.
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Port Angeles beach landing site today for canoe journey (The Peninsula Daily News 7/29)
Tulalips host Canoe Journey rest stop
(The Everett Herald 7/29)
Tribal canoes arriving in Port Angeles (KONP 7/29)
Tribal Journeys canoes a no-show (The Victoria Times Colonist 7/29)
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