Tribal Journeys 2024

Created on June 16, 2023, 10:01 am

Last Updated June 10, 2024, 11:34 am

The Power Paddle to Puyallup Youth Canoe Journey 2024 will start in La Push on July 19 during Quileute Days, landing in Neah Bay on 7/21, Pillar Point on 7/22, Lower Elwha on 7/23-24, and Jamestown 7/25 and continue to stops along the way. At each stop they will be welcomed by the hosting tribe and joined by others from Vancouver Island, British Columbia and Puget Sound. All canoes will converge August 1-5 for Protocol at the Canoe Landing in Tacoma. For more information go to https://www.puyalluptribe-nsn.gov/power-paddle-to-puyallup-youth-canoe-journey-2024/

1) Tribal journeys: the resurgence of the Canoe nations

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This year's Tribal Journey starts as early as July 19 and concludes with ceremonies from July 30-August 6th, is hosted by the Muckleshoot Tribe. https://muckleshootcanoejourney.com/ These items, some of which are only available for in-library use, give some background to this annual event that includes Canoe Families from along the Washington Coast, Puget Sound and British Columbia.

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DVD-R. Interviews and demonstrations by Mary McQuillen (Makah); Ed Carriere (Suquamish); Al Charles, Jr. (Lower Elwha Klallam); Jerry Jones (Snohomish); David Neel (Kwagiutl)

2) Tribal journey

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Robinson, Gary, 1950

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PathFinders (Summertown Tenn.)

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Sixteen-year-old Jason is left with a paralyzed leg after a car accident and it is only after becoming involved with his Duwamish mother's tribe and learning to "pull" a canoe that he begins to see himself as more than a boy in a wheelchair.

3) Canoe journeys

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Access vertical file of Archive collection at Port Angeles Main Library.

4) Paddle to Seattle: a native Washington movement to "Bring them canoes back home"

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Lincoln, Leslie Jeanne, 1959

5) Northwest Coast canoes of indigenous North America: a historical view of styles and development

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Hoover, Alan L

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This history of Indigenous canoes from the Northwest Coast of North America includes the first comprehensive review of canoe types from the time of Newcomer contact in the late 18th century to contemporary times. Drawings, paintings, lines drawings and models illustrate canoes from the Columbia River to the Alaskan Panhandle. The canoe-making revival that began in the late 20th century is featured and canoe makers, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous...

6) against the seas saving civilizations from rising

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7) Coast Salish essays

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Suttles, Wayne P., 1918

8) S'abadeb =: The gifts : Pacific Coast Salish arts and artists

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S'abadeb - the Gifts captures the essence of Coast Salish culture through its artistry, oral traditions, and history. Developed in conjunction with the first extensive exhibition of the art and culture of the Coast Salish people of Washiington State and British Columbia, the book traces the historic, cultural, and social context of Salish art from prehistory to the present. Sculpture in wood, stone, crafted basketry, woven regalia, and works in glass,...

9) Folk-tales of the Coast Salish

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First published in 1934, this collection of tales was recorded and edited by Thelma Adamson, a student of Franz Boas and one of the first women to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest. A major contribution to our knowledge of western Washington Salish oral traditions, Folk-Tales of the Coast Salish contains 190 texts from nineteen consultants, most collected in English or in English translation. The 155 stories represent Upper Chehalis...

10) Contemporary art on the Northwest coast: Salish, Nuu-chuh-nulth and Makah

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Norris, Karen

11) Jesintel: living wisdom from Coast Salish elders

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"Dynamic and diverse, Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview. Jesintel-"to learn and grow together"-characterizes the spirit of this book, which brings the cultural teachings of nineteen elders to new generations. Featuring interviews that share powerful experiences and stories, Jesintel illuminates the importance of ethical reciprocal relationships and the interconnectedness of places,...

12) Homewaters: a human and natural history of Puget Sound

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Williams, David B., 1965

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding...

13) The black canoe: Bill Reid and the spirit of Haida Gwaii

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Bringhurst, Robert

14) Indian canoes of the Northwest coast

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Durham, Bill

15) The great canoes: reviving a Northwest coast tradition

Author

Neel, David

16) Jimmy Bluefeather: a novel

Author

Heacox, Kim

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"Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in), he s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa...

17) Native peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: who we are

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The nine Native tribes of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula--the Hoh, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Quinault, Quileute, and Makah--share complex histories of trade, religion, warfare, and kinship, as well as reverence for the teaching of elders. However, each indigenous nation's relationship to the Olympic Peninsula is unique. Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are traces...

18) The sea runners

Author

Doig, Ivan

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Book, eBook

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The story of four indentured servants in Czarist Russia in 1853 who escape and travel to freedom by canoe. In 1853, four Scandinavian indentured laborers in Russian Alaska steal a canoe and begin to paddle south toward the mouth of the Columbia River, twelve hundred miles away.

19) Our Teacher

Author

Aleck, Patrick

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Coast Salish carver Beau Wagner honours his late teacher's wish by carving a canoe on Gabriola Island with local elementary school students to revitalise Coast Salish canoe culture and foster understanding and respect for Coast Salish knowledge.

20) Andy's tribal canoe journey

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Beaton, Seabacola

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Andy has had a rough school year and is ready for summer vacation. But when Grandpa Rick tells him that he will be participating in a canoe journey instead of enjoying his usual summer activities, Andy feels he is being punished. Join Andy as he experiences a Tribal Canoe Journey for the first time and learns what it's like to belong to a canoe family. Follow along as Andy navigates physical and emotional challenges and finds an answer to the important...