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.
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The Boldt decision of 1974 was the result of sacrifices made by Native fishers and their families who were jailed and beaten while defending their rights.

The UW participated in its first Tribal Canoe Journey, with students, faculty, staff, and alums working together as a family — the Shell House Canoe Family, č̓away̓altxʷ ʔiišəd — to make it all happen.

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s first Coho fishery on an Elwha River unimpeded by dams in more than 100 years got underway in mid-October. Tribal member Jonathan Arakawa shares his thoughts.

Rachel Heaton shares her experience leading six other native mountaineers up Tahoma, or Mount Rainier, to increase Native visibility and raise awareness of the ancient relationship between Tahoma and the Indigenous peoples who honor her.
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