Here’s your handy clip & save guide map to the Youth Paddle to Puyallup 2024. You can cut it out, fold it up, and carry it in your purse or pocket.
Muckleshoot will start out at Port Townsend, arriving on Friday, July 26, where they will join canoe families from Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula.
From there, they will travel to Port Gamble (July 27) and Suquamish (July 28), before Muckleshoot welcomes 50+ canoes to the beach at Saltwater State Park on Monday, July 29. Open floor protocols will be held. Further information will be made available as plans firm up. From Saltwater State Park, the canoes will travel to Owen Beach for a soft landing on July 30, followed by the Puyallup grand landing on Wednesday, July 31. Navigation address for the landing site is 4224 Marine View Drive, Tacoma. Protocols will be held from Thursday, August 1 through Tuesday, August 5 at (navigation address) 3515 72nd Street E, Tacoma, WA.
In June, Muckleshoot witnessed the graduation of 42 Muckleshoot Tribal Members with college degrees and 134 Muckleshoot Tribal Members who earned their technical education and vocational certificates.
Muckleshoot celebrated its Warrior traditions and veterans service with Tribes from around the region at the 2025 Veterans Powwow last month. Photos courtesy of Danielle Wilcox.
Councilwoman Cross joined retired Seattle University professor Fr. Pat Twohy, S.J., to celebrate his 86th birthday and the recent publication of his latest book, syəyaʔaʔ: Coast Salish Sacred Lifeways and the Sacred Lifeways of Jesus.
The Muckleshoot Tribal Council, Muckleshoot Intergovernmental Affairs, and our D.C. team were actively engaged since the BBB’s inception in January to ensure that the Tribe’s sovereignty and treaty rights were protected in this process.
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