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Healing Through Waters Honoring Ancestors | Spokane News
For the ninth year, the Muckleshoot Canoe Family and 130 other canoes honored their ancestors and reclaimed their heritage on a powerful intertribal journey across ancestral waters — a defiant act of cultural survival that began in 1989 when such traditions were illegal. More than just paddling, this pilgrimage is a living testament to resilience, featuring dancers, medics, and support crews working in harmony, culminating in a vibrant potlatch where tribes shared songs, stories, and dances — proving that Indigenous identity, though suppressed, has never vanished, and continues to heal…
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