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Paddle to Seattle : a native Washington movement to "Bring them canoes back home" Lincoln, Leslie Jeanne
Abstract
This thesis documents the 1989 Washington Centennial Commissions' Native Canoe Project. Seventeen Western Washington tribes participated in a canoe-oriented cultural heritage renewal movement. The ethnographic setting establishes Native dugouts in their historic social context and presents the classic hull forms of representative canoe types. After a hiatus of several generations of canoe use, many tribes began to reconstruct their disappearing canoeing ways. Through the process of carving and using their dugouts, they have addressed current issues. Canoe racing and voyaging has proven to be effective, culturally relevant alternative to drug and alcohol abuse. Native people reaffirmed access to landing beaches and forest resources and created community carving centers. Case studies of the Lummi, Suquamish, Tulalip, Port Gamble Klallam and Quileute tribes reveal continuity, schisms and the reinvention of Native dugout traditions. The culminating "Paddle to Seattle" voyage illuminates the vital role of these canoes to unite communities and legitimize Indian values. Abundant use of Native commentary from collected oral histories substantiate my interpretations and offer authority to Native perspectives. Ethnopoetic transcriptions express an understanding of these cedar canoes in the enduring Native thoughtworld.
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Paddle to Seattle : a native Washington movement to "Bring them canoes back home"
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University of British Columbia
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1990
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This thesis documents the 1989 Washington Centennial Commissions'
Native Canoe Project. Seventeen Western Washington
tribes participated in a canoe-oriented cultural heritage
renewal movement. The ethnographic setting establishes Native
dugouts in their historic social context and presents the
classic hull forms of representative canoe types. After a
hiatus of several generations of canoe use, many tribes began
to reconstruct their disappearing canoeing ways. Through the
process of carving and using their dugouts, they have addressed
current issues. Canoe racing and voyaging has proven to be
effective, culturally relevant alternative to drug and alcohol
abuse. Native people reaffirmed access to landing beaches and
forest resources and created community carving centers. Case
studies of the Lummi, Suquamish, Tulalip, Port Gamble Klallam
and Quileute tribes reveal continuity, schisms and the reinvention
of Native dugout traditions. The culminating "Paddle
to Seattle" voyage illuminates the vital role of these canoes
to unite communities and legitimize Indian values. Abundant use
of Native commentary from collected oral histories substantiate
my interpretations and offer authority to Native perspectives.
Ethnopoetic transcriptions express an understanding of these
cedar canoes in the enduring Native thoughtworld.
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eng
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2012-04-16
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0107116
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University of British Columbia
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Graduate
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