Canoes rack up for final entry protocols

• Main Author: Frazier, Allen
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Washington State Library 2004
• Subjects: Canoes; Indigenous peoples; Indian reservations; Cedar Canoes; Chemainus First Nation; Coast Salish; Cultural resurgence; Nisqually pullers; Pacific Northwest Tribal Culture; Paddle to Chemainus; Paddle to Stz'uminus; Protocols; Squalli Absch; Spiritual healing; Stz'uminus First Nation; Substance abuse prevention; Canada; Pacific; Indian; British Columbia; First Nations
• Online Access: http://content.statelib.wa.gov/cdm/ref/collection/nisqually/id/171

Canoe paddlers hold the sides of each others' canoes, as they wait for permission to land at Chemainus First nation, in the final rack up of the 2004 Paddle to Chemainus. The red canoe seen at center was Delbert Miller and Misty Kalama's, pulled by the Skokomish Tribe's Canoe Family and carrying two Nisquallys, Iwalani and Brianne McCloud. To the right The Nisqually Tribe's Canoe, the "Squally Absch" can be seen, with it's signature cedar circle gracing the prow. Images in this collection document the Nisqually Indian Tribe's participation in the Tribal Canoe Journeys, an annual celebration of canoe culture by Coast Salish peoples from British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington. In 2004, the event was known as the "Paddle to Chemainus," hosted by the Stz'uminus First Nation.