The Long House

The Long House, where tribes dance, sing and exchange gifts with guests
Credit: Michael Hanson for The New York Times
(http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/25/us/20110725_CANOE-4.html)

A growing number of American Indians from tribes scattered across coastal regions of Washington State and British Columbia have climbed into traditionally designed cedar canoes and traveled for more than two or three weeks every summer.

(Port Gamble S’klallam Reservation Journal: A Northwest Journey by Canoe to Reconnect With the Old Ways)

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