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 a...