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Canoe Journey 101

'We get this opportunity to live our canoe culture because leaders before us made sure that canoe culture would never die.'

Aug 01, 2023
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by Stephanie Masterman

Stephanie Masterman (Tlingit) holds the paddle she carved while wearing the Silver Paddle Earrings she designed with Louie Gong (Nooksack) based off her carved wooden paddle.

I’m not sure I’d be the person I am today if it wasn’t for tribal journeys.

The 2012 Paddle to Squaxin Island was my first journey. Before that, I had tagged al…

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