NWIN #40 – August 2009

Chenoa Egawa, Lummi Tribal member, hosts the program from the shores of Tulalip Bay on the Tulalip reservation during the Tribal Journeys 2009 Paddle to Suquamish landing.

The canoes and canoe families here today have traveled from the northern Puget Sound and lower British Columbia coastal regions. However, In a few days they will join together with other canoes from five separate routes during the culmination of Tribal Journeys 2009, Paddle to Suquamish, being hosted at the Port Madison Indian Reservation.

More than 80 ocean going canoes and as many as 7,000 people will gather together to  witness the canoes coming ashore.

NWIN 40 stories:

“Yakama Nation Wild Horses” You may know that; the horse has always been an important part of Yakama Nation culture. But did you know that wild horses still run free in the foothills of the Yakama reservation?

“Kasaan Totem Raising” In Bella Coola, British Columbia the Nuxalk (nu hulk)First Nation raises a sacred totem pole the way their ancestors have been doing it for thousands of years.

“Hawai’ian Reunion of Ancestry Celebration”  Many First Nations’ band members from southwestern Canada and Tribal members from the northwestern U.S. have Hawai’ian ancestry. Find out more about the bloodline connection to Hawai’i in our upcoming report.