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Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Journey Information

The Snoqualmie Tribe’s Culture Department is honored to invite all Snoqualmie Tribal members and their families to attend this year’s 2023 Canoe Journey Paddle to Muckleshoot: Honoring Our Warriors Past and Present ( July 30, 2023 – August 6, 2023 ).

The upcoming Culture Department gatherings offer Tribal Members the opportunity to make their own regalia, learn songs and dances, learn how to make traditional art and help prepare gifts for the hosting tribe and guests, ready the participants who want to pull in the canoe, and learn how to speak Lushootseed while on the Canoe Journey.

Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Journey Experience

If you would like to view the Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Journey Experience & Photo Gallery, please click on the ‘View Live Map’ button below. The overall goal for this product was to create an environment where all Snoqualmie Tribe members, staff, and the public can experience the 2023 Canoe Journey and feel connected along our path.The Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Journey Experience works on any device, though the preferred method of viewing is on a computer-sized screen.

Each point on the map invites users to add photographs of locations from years past or in 2023! The Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Journey Experience live tracking map and photo submission e-form are located on this web page.

For questions, please contact the Snoqualmie Tribe GIS Department by email at [email protected]

Participation

The Canoe Journey “Journey” was formed for the revival of the Canoe Culture of our ancestors, and to educate those of these practices. It is the largest event held by Native Americans in the Northwest region and is hosted by different Tribes in the US and Canada.

The Canoe Journey is family oriented and is a drug and alcohol-free event.

All Tribes, federally recognized or not, are invited to attend this event as well as those who have their own canoe not associated with a specific tribe. The majority of attendees are Native American, but everyone is invited to attend. The events focus on revitalizing canoeing to those who have canoeing ancestry. Participants have come from as far away as Mexico, Japan, and Peru. Tribes who participate in Tribal Canoe Journey often have an organized team or what is called a “Canoe Family”, to organize the group. There are several different roles to fill for the preparation of the Journey.

At the end of the Canoe Journey the participants take part in Final Protocol, held at the hosting Tribe’s land. All the canoes that landed in the hosting Tribe’s territory are expected to participate in Final Protocol. This is done by sharing a variety of cultural information, songs, dances, and stories. To complete the etiquette of Final Protocol, participating Tribes will thank and gift the hosting Tribe and the guests who’ve taken part in witnessing their sharing.

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Upcoming Gatherings

Snoqualmie tribe canoe journey experience photo gallery e-form.

As part of the Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Journey Experience live tracking map, users are encouraged to add photos at each landing along the route. These photos can be from years past or from 2023 and will give visitors and Tribal Members an idea of what to expect along the way!

To access the e-form and submit your own photos, please click on the ‘View E-form’ button below.

Wayne Graika 425-449-6630 [email protected]

Debra Mathis 425-417-5698 [email protected]

Culture Department [email protected]

Ten Rules of Canoe Journey

• Every stroke we take is one less we have to make.
• There is to be no abuse of self or others.
• Be flexible.
• The gift of each enriches all.
• We all pull and support each other.
• A hungry person has no charity.
• Experiences are not enhanced by criticism.
• The journey is what we enjoy.
• A good teacher allows the student to learn.
• When given any choice at all, be a worker bee–make honey!

Emergency Medical Form

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Camping Checklist

Canoe Journey Route

Canoe Journey Transportation & Lodging Assistance

PURPOSE:  The Canoe Journey Benefit was developed to encourage participation of Tribal Members and their families in the Annual Canoe Journey. This benefit is a seasonal benefit that is approved and administered yearly per Snoqualmie Tribal Council approval.

ELIGIBILITY:  To receive this benefit, the applicant must be an adult enrolled member of the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe.

Checks in Advance:  Applicants requesting checks in advance must have their complete application submitted to the TCR Program by  July 30, 2023. Reimbursement:  Applicants requesting reimbursement for lodging/ferries/toll must have their complete application submitted with all original receipts to the TCR Program by  August 13, 2023.  Vendor payments are not being offered for this program.

To learn more about this benefit, please contact [email protected]

Canoe Journey Transportation and Lodging Assistance Eform

To apply to the Canoe Journey Transportation and Lodging Assistance via eform, please click on the button below.

Countdown to Canoe Journey 2023

MUCKLESHOOT MESSENGER

July 2023 (section i), muckleshoot canoe journey hosting 2023: honoring our warriors past & present.

Come feed your Indian and get your medicine!

By Salena Jackson

The big day is almost here! Our very first Canoe Journey since before COVID! On July 30th, around 100 canoes will be landing at Alki Beach in Seattle as Muckleshoot hosts the Inter-Tribal Canoe Journey for the first time since 2006! We are honored and excited and wish to ensure our guests have the proper information before arriving, so here are a few things to know:

Transportation: ‍

Muckleshoot Transportation will have charter buses going back and forth from Muckleshoot to Alki on July 30th from 9AM to 9PM. We will also have golf cart shuttles throughout the whole week transporting people from camp sites, RV sites and parking lots to the community center. Muckleshoot Tribal Transit will be running its regular route and, as always, is free to all riders. Route times and destinations can be found at www.tribaltransit.com

Parking at Alki:

‍ We have designated parking in Seattle for this event at the Port of Seattle (2949 SW Florida St., Seattle, WA) and will have shuttles going back and forth to transport people to Alki Beach. As there will be no parking at Alki Beach, it will be designated for charter buses only.

At Muckleshoot: ‍

Camping sites will be available at the Muckleshoot Powwow Grounds and we have partnered

with numerous hotels in Auburn. We also have a designated area for RV Parking. Although they will not have access to electricity, there is room for approximately 200 RV’s that will be located behind Fire Station 96 (17920 SE 400th St).

July 30 Dinner:

‍ As everyone gets settled into their camping spots/hotels, Dinner on July 30th will be from 5-6:30PM at the brand-new Muckleshoot Community Center. Protocol: Protocol is where we get our medicine! Each Tribe will have their own time on the floor to share their own songs and dances with everyone in attendance. Some tribes will have their sacred masks present and will ask for no pictures or recordings during certain songs. I was taught these are the type of songs and dances where it is a blessing to be able to witness, but making recordings is not allowed!

Some Tribes have fun songs where they go grab someone they don’t know from the audience to participate, some songs will be challenge songs for all kids to have fun and participate in – every tribe is different and have different styles of songs.

Protocol will start on Monday July 31st at 9AM and will continue around the clock (24 hours) for the rest of the week, starting with the tribe who traveled the furthest and working its way to the Host Tribe. Muckleshoot is planning to start Protocol on August 6th at 9AM.

‍ All the Work!

‍ This past year has been a heartwarming sight to see, to see our tribe pull together and pitch in wherever they can to ensure everything is done in time for us to host this grand event! All of the time, sweat, energy and prayers put into regalia, giveaway items, song, dance and canoe practice. We are so proud and grateful to have such a helpful and willing community! We couldn’t have done it without you!

We are so excited to host this amazing event for all of our people! Tribes will travel from all over Washington, Oregon, Canada, Alaska, New York, Hawaii and sometimes our New Zealand/Maori friends! We would like to put our hands up to anyone and everyone who has contributed their time and effort into Tribal Canoe Journeys 2023 Paddle to Muckleshoot, Honoring Out Warriors. Come feed your Indian and get your medicine!

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Suquamish Tribe Hosting

Friday, july 28 & saturday july 29, 2023, house of awakened culture | 7235 pkwy ne, suquamish wa 98392, suquamish is the last stop before muckleshoot. muckleshoot is the final destination..

The Tribal Canoe Journey is a celebration of tribes from across the Pacific Northwest that travel from tribe to tribe, sharing songs and dances along the way, to end up at a final tribal destination for a week of sharing food, songs, dances and giveaways.

Suquamish is expecting over 100 canoes and 8,000 to 9,000 people for this two-day hosting. For those who are not participating in the journey, but would like to spectate, we ask that you respect and honor the event by giving people space and respecting the process. The very best way you can be part of this annual event is to volunteer and you can sign up here! 

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Suquamish canoe family travel route.

Schedule of Events

• 12:00pm (ish) – Canoes land in Suquamish
• 5:00pm – Dinner
• 7:00pm – Protocol
• 7:00am – 9:00am – Breakfast
• 11:00am – University of Washington Canoe Family Gift Recognition
• 12:00pm – Protocol
• 5:30pm – Skippers Meeting
• 6:00pm – Protocol
• 8:00am – To-Go Breakfast
• 9:30am – Canoes leave Suquamish
• 12:00pm – Canoes land at Alki Beach

schedule is subject to change

The following locations are available for camping

• 18490 Suquamish Way NE, Suquamish WA 98392
• Map is subject to change

• 6861 South St, Suquamish WA 98392

• 6937 NE Totem Ln, Suquamish WA 98392

• 18513 Augusta Ave, Suquamish WA 98392

• #3 spot – 6968 NE Enetai Ln
• #6 spot – 18181 Cherry Tree Ln

• 5055 NE Totten Rd, Poulsbo, WA 98370

• 15836 Sandy Hook Road NE, Poulsbo, WA 98370

• 16301 Creative Dr NE, Poulsbo, WA 98370

• 7235 NE Pkwy, Suquamish WA 98392

Downtown Map

Downtown Suquamish, and the House of Awakened Culture, will be the main focus of the hosting

7235 NE Parkway, Suquamish WA 98392

If you would like to volunteer to help with the Tribal Canoe Journey hosting, please fill out our Volunteer Application

Toward the bottom of the form you can mention which event you’d like to volunteer for

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Muckleshoot              Stephanie James | 253.876.2994 | [email protected]

December 19, 2023

A Pacific Northwest Reminder of Tribal Connections

By Anne Taylor

In early August 2023, tribe members from coastal Native nations throughout the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska spent over a week paddling more than 130 canoes along the Salish Sea and its tributaries. In addition to the canoes, more than 700 cars and trucks, 89 trailers, and 82 boats caravanned in support.

The tribe members had all come together for the annual Intertribal Canoe Journey, an important celebration that reenacts trading trips of their ancestors. Leading up to the canoe launch, the Muckleshoot Tribe—original inhabitants of central Puget Sound watersheds and hosts of the 2023 event—created smart maps to guide the voyage.

Grant Timentwa, GIS program manager for the Muckleshoot Tribe, used geographic information system (GIS) technology to make the maps and coordinate logistics. “This year, I really pushed for the use of web and mobile applications for the route map and community center map to make it easier for everybody,” Timentwa said.

It wasn’t until 1990 that the Native American Languages Act passed Congress, entitling tribal members to speak their own languages and practice their cultural traditions, reversing forced assimilation. The Intertribal Canoe Journey predates the passage of this act by just one year.

Modernizing Ancestral Highways with GIS

Since the first canoe journey, the Paddle to Seattle in 1989, this epic event has happened regularly with a focus on the reclamation and revitalization of tribal history, culture, and traditional practices. The canoe journey sparked a renewal of traditions, such as canoe carving, which are taught to young people to keep the culture alive.

For past journeys, the hosting tribe would print paper maps to help guide canoe families. This year, everyone had access to digital maps that communicated locations of shoreline sites with details about amenities such as restrooms and parking. All the information participants needed was hosted on the Muckleshoot Tribe’s GIS hub site with smart maps that showed the overall journey as well as each waypoint.

Unlike a static paper map, GIS maps made it easy to update information and coordinate across tribes. “When I share the map with canoe families, they mark them up and say, ‘Here’s a date change,’ or ‘Here’s a route that was added, or scratched off,’” Timentwa said.

Bridging the Past and the Present through Maps

Maps provide the means to collaborate with local authorities and make plans for each site, including the coordination of supplies and ensuring public safety. Designing routes can be tricky, considering ferries and other water traffic—but smart maps helped in that area as well. “We have to be cognizant of the shipping containers that cross when we map routes,” Timentwa said.

The route culminated on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation, at Seattle’s Alki Beach, for a weeklong around-the-clock celebration. Before each canoe family could come ashore, protocol required each tribe’s members to introduce themselves in their tribal language and request permission to land. Once permission was granted, groups pitched in lead participants from the canoes to the weeklong gathering, guided by a detailed map of the Muckleshoot Nation.

More than 10,000 guests, tribal members, and the public learned about each of the tribes that took part in the canoe journey. Tribes took turns on the Muckleshoot stage to share their traditional stories, music, and dance. In the preceding week they had paddled to a series of Native nations, including the Quinault, Makah, Lower Elwha Klallam, Lummi, Swinomish, Tulalip, Jamestown S´Klallam, and Suquamish reservations.

Many of the participating tribes, such as the Alaska Native tribes and First Nations in Canada, are well known in the Pacific Northwest. They were able to share their canoeing traditions and explain how “they also use the water as their highway for sustenance, gathering, and travel,” Timentwa said.

Learn more about how Native American policymakers, administrators, scientists, and instructors use GIS to make their tribal organizations more efficient and effective.

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Canoe Journey 2023 Reconnects Regional Tribes to Each Other and Local Waterways

Back on the water after a pandemic hiatus, Canoe Journey 2023 is returning with more area Tribes than ever. Hosting the week’s dancing, feasting, and potlatch is the Muckleshoot Tribe this year.

The elegant craftsmanship, human-powered functionality, and history imbued in these canoes is a thing of beauty and legend. To the Indigenous of the Pacific Northwest, tribal canoes are family, they each have a spirit, and they are a connection to the forests, trees, salmon, and waters that are sacred. And, these canoes are the way that families, hunting parties, fishing people, and newcomers traveled throughout the region for centuries before there were roads and other methods of getting around.

It is right, then, to honor the canoe, along with the Tribes, through their return to the water with their annual Canoe Journey. In 2003, filmmaker James Fortier of Turtle Island Productions made a documentary called Canoes – Pulling Together for the Muckleshoot Tribe in honor of the occasion. We are sharing it here to provide readers with an inside look at the pullers, canoe families, and the tradition that is Canoe Journey.

Fortier provided the following synopsis for the film: “Reflecting the traditions of their ancestors, the Muckleshoot canoe ”family’ learns to put the group before the individual in order to survive the often-treacherous waters of Washington’s Puget Sound. Chronicling their 14-day odyssey during Tribal Canoe Journey – 2003, filmmaker James M. Fortier (Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation – Ojibway) captures the heart, and the heartaches of one tribe’s determined effort to share and revive their traditional canoe culture. This is a story of unity; of a group of Muckleshoot youth, men, women, and elders representing their tribal community, and learning to work together in order to overcome physical challenges, cultural differences, and personal obstacles, on a journey of self-discovery and cultural renewal. As canoe family member Les Nelson Jr. said, ‘The strongest person in the world cannot pull the canoe alone, you have to pull together.'”

Fortier followed up “Canoes – Pulling Together” with a 2006 documentary called “Gathering Together” filmed near Tacoma.

“‘Gathering Together’ goes behind the scenes to chronicle the story of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe’s first traditional potlatch in over a century as host of the 2006 Tribal Canoe Journey,” Fortier notes. “The second film focuses on their role as host to more than 60 canoe nations from as far away as Alaska and Hawaii, who gathered for the first time on Muckleshoot territory for five days of traditional song, dance, giveaways, ceremonies, and feasts.”

The documentary uses HD footage “to capture the unique beauty of Coast Salish canoe culture. What emerges is an intimate portrait of the Muckleshoot tribe grappling with the struggle between modernity and tradition, as they nervously anticipate their formal presentations before this historic gathering of thousands.”

About filmaker James M. Fortier

Writer/Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor/Dedicated Historian James is an enrolled member of the Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation (formerly known as Ojibways of Pic River First Nation), located in Ontario, Canada. Born in Nipigon, Ontario and raised in the Chicago area, first at Mooseheart, and then in Wheaton, James set out for California at the ripe age of 20 to complete film school at San Francisco State University and received his B.A. in Broadcast Television Arts with an emphasis on screenwriting and video production. His first documentary, “Alcatraz Is Not an Island,” won best documentary feature at the 1999 American Indian Film Festival and later screened at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, premiering nationally on PBS and APTN in Canada in the early 2000s. He runs Turtle Island Productions . His works include “ Searching for Sequoyah ” and “ Gifts From The Elders .”

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We Are Muckleshoot

Canoe journey 2023 documentary.

November 2, 2023

This short documentary serves as a window into the epic voyages, ancient traditions and culture brought to life Canoe Journey 2023, hosted by Seattle's Muckleshoot Indian Tribe.

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A window into the epic voyages, ancient traditions and culture brought to life Canoe Journey 2023, hosted by Seattle's Muckleshoot Indian Tribe. This spectacular event brought together thousands of Native people from far and wide for an unequalled celebration of indigenous people and history.

This year's theme, Honoring Our Warriors Past and Present, was a tribute to the ancestors who paddled the Salish Sea and the surrounding waterways since time immemorial, and those who continue the fight to uphold our sovereignty and treaty rights today.

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AIS is proud to support the new UW Canoe Family, č̓away̓altxʷ ʔiišəd (translated to Shell House Family from Lushootseed), a name gifted to the Canoe Family by AIS Professor, Tami Hohn (Puyallup). This summer marked the first Canoe Journey č̓away̓altxʷ ʔiišəd travelled on.

This Journey was embarked on with great care. The Canoe Family met throughout the year to prepare every aspect, from carving paddles with CAIIS’s Native knowledge-in-residence coordinator Philip Red Eagle (Dakota/Salish), pulling practice in the Willapa Spirit Honor Canoe on Lake Washington, gift making for traditional giveaway, and protocol practices sharing songs and stories from multiple tribes.

Canoe Journey 2023 was Paddle to Muckleshoot, Honoring our Warriors Past and Present. č̓away̓altxʷ ʔiišəd travelled up to Tulalip Tribes to start the Journey from Tulalip Bay. Pulling to Suquamish was the first official pull where the landing was met with tears of joy and celebration for safely reaching the destination. Suquamish Tribe generously hosted for two nights with endless food and protocol shared from tribes who travelled from as far as Alaska.

The morning of July 29, 2023, Marylin Oliver-Bard gifted the Oliver family canoe to č̓away̓altxʷ ʔiišəd in a traditional gifting ceremony, witnessed by Nigel Lawrence (Suquamish), Nicole Kuhn (Haida), and Nancy Jo Bob (Lummi).

Final landing on Journey was at Alki where the canoes were met by Muckleshoot Tribe before traveling to Muckleshoot for a week of final protocol. č̓away̓altxʷ ʔiišəd had one final pull back to the ASUW Shell House where President Ana Mari Cause generously offered for Willapa Spirit to be housed and call home since 2018.

If you are interested in learning more about Canoe Journey 2023, or the UW Canoe Family, č̓away̓altxʷ ʔiišəd, check out the article that covered this year’s Journey. č̓away̓altxʷ ʔiišəd is made up of UW students, faculty, staff, alums, elders and community members.

If you are interested in joining, check out one of the weekly meetings: Tuesdays from 5-6pm in CHL 160.

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'It's good medicine': Intertribal celebration marks completion of canoe journey

Crowds filled beaches near Seattle last weekend, as tribal members stood drumming and chanting to mark the arrival of dozens of canoe families coming in to shore.

One by one, the skipper of each of the crews introduced themselves and offered a formal request for permission to come ashore.

Only after a representative of the hosting tribe acknowledged them did the paddlers set foot on land.

This year, Alki Beach was their final destination. Some tribal members paddled hundreds of miles to attend. Yet the trip by water, the canoe journey, is only the beginning of the celebration.

After arriving, the paddlers headed by car or van to the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe's reservation for a full week of camping out and sharing food, dances, stories and song. The round-the-clock celebration honors all the tribal cultures that come together each year for the Canoe Journey.  

Canoes are at the heart of Indigenous cultures in the Pacific Northwest - they were used for transportation, fishing and hunting. And today, many say they feel connected to their ancestors through paddling and prayer.

That’s a large part of what this intertribal canoe journey is about. It’s also about sharing cultural offerings with other tribes – through formal presentations, referred to as "protocol."

Throughout the week, canoe families took the stage of the Muckleshoot Community Center in two-hour shifts. The schedule extended into the night, around the clock and continued for a week. By tradition, the first group to present is the one that traveled the farthest.

This year, that was the One People Canoe Society from Juneau, Alaska. They took a ferry to Skagway and drove through Canada to get to Bellingham, where they put their canoe in the water at the Lummi reservation, said Yarrow Vaara, who is Tlingit and one of their skippers.

“We still have camping gear that's soaking wet from our last stop, we still have sand in our shoes,” she said. “And then we're pulling out our dance gear that we've been keeping very sacredly safe and dry and clean.”

Despite that, she said everyone was excited to be at this event. After a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, they’re “hungry for culture.”

“We've been isolated and separated and segregated in different ways, you know, from COVID, from generations of trauma and different things,” she said. “And going through COVID kind of re-ignited some of those feelings.”  

Sharing is good medicine

Time spent on the water, “pulling” for long hours with your crew and often singing to stay in sync, is central to the canoe journey. Those images are the ones that tend to get the most air time. But the week of protocol afterward is equally important, said Muckleshoot Chairman Jaison Elkins. The presentations of songs, dances, cultural gifts and testimonials is available to anyone who shows up to witness it.

“And we believe that is good medicine for everybody. Because we need those teachings. We need those songs. We need the dance, and it's good medicine. It's good healing, for all of our people,” Elkins said.

He said the tribe spent two years preparing for the gathering. They set up water, camping space, restrooms and shower facilities. Elkins said over a hundred cooks were helping prepare food, including regional seafood such as salmon, crab and shrimp.

"We want to make sure they're comfortable and they're fed well while they share their songs and dances with us," he said.

“Just so everybody knows, it was against the law for us to practice our culture, not even seven generations ago,” said Freddie Lane, a Lummi community activist and former councilmember who spent hours inside the Muckleshoot Community Center during this year’s protocols, filming and livestreaming them on his Facebook page.

“It was banned by the United States and Canada,” he said of the traditional potlach that canoe journey protocols resemble. At the same time, those societies tried to erase the Indigenous cultures of the lands they settled, taking native children away from their families and sending them to boarding schools that forced them to assimilate.

He calls the week-long celebration he has helped document “the great gathering” that brings everyone together.

 “Because we're still here. You know, we survived the great flood. We survived smallpox and the boarding school,” Lane said. “But we're still here and all of us can come together in a good way. And we need more of this in our communities.”

“It’s a resurgence,” said Suquamish chairman Leonard Forsman, who is also president of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians. Forsman was involved in the original Paddle to Seattle canoe journey in 1989, launched to coincide with the Washington state centennial.

He noted that before colonization by Europeans, when the culture had no written language, protocol was a key time to get stories and information from other places. Today, the annual tradition has helped revive languages and keep them alive. It has also motivated more people to learn how to make Indigenous regalia such as cedar hats and necklaces.

“And that brings a lot of pride back to our people, it incorporates and teaches us about our traditions. It's a way for people to be proud of their heritage,” he said.  “And it's good for us to have that exciting time. Every year.“

Reconnecting to native culture

Sitting in the bleachers to soak up the presentations was 67-year-old John Stevenson. He’s a member of the Muckleshoot Tribe, but was adopted by a white family and grew up away from these traditions.

 "Yeah, I didn't know my culture at all. And my beautiful cousins and all my relations here at Muckleshoot taught me the traditions of what it is to be in the canoe family," Stevenson said.   

He said he’s deeply moved by this event – especially all the young people in their regalia, singing, dancing, and carrying their tribal cultures forward

“It’s amazing to see how native people have never gone away, no matter what happens,” he said. “And this is all of us coming together, to be able to celebrate our beautiful way of life.”

Literary Links: Summer Reading program rich with adventures

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Librarian Whitley Abell compiled this month’s selections.

Adventure is just a page away this summer at the Daniel Boone Regional Library as we invite you to participate in our Summer Reading program: Adventure Begins at Your Library.

Summer Reading starts June 1, and is free and open to all ages. Countless adventures await on our library shelves. Here are just a few books to kick-start your journey as we step outside and into the great unknown! 

In picture books (recommended for ages 0-5), one of my favorites is “Wonder Walkers” (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2021) by Micha Archer. When two young children take a walk outdoors, their imaginations lead from one natural mystery to another. This book is the perfect starting point for little ones’ own wonder walks as they ponder what makes the world work. 

“Fatima's Great Outdoors” (Kokila, 2021) by Ambreen Tariq follows a young immigrant family on their first camping trip in the Midwest. This joyful tale, written by the founder of the social media initiative @BrownPeopleCamping, fosters a sense of belonging as Fatima learns the ins and outs of camping, including pitching a tent, building a fire and warding off daddy longlegs. 

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“What a Map Can Do” (Rise x Penguin Workshop, 2023) by Gabrielle Balkan guides children through the art of map-reading. From bus maps to hiking trails, the book's adorable raccoon teaches kids to explore the world around them with a handy-dandy map. 

For newly independent readers (ages 6-8), picture-book stars Stick and Stone are back in an early-reader graphic novel, “Stick and Stone: On the Go” (Clarion Books, 2023) by Beth Ferry. The pals stick together as they explore caves and face off against a new puppy. This delightful graphic novel is full of humor and adventure and is perfect for fans of the “Narwhal & Jelly” series. 

“Treasure Map” (Scholastic Inc., 2023) by Brandon Todd is the first in the new early readers series, “The Adventure Friends .” Clarke and Miguel are ready to explore, as they map out their neighborhood and search for hidden treasure. Young readers might even get the itch to make their own neighborhood map, be it for treasure or for fun!

For older kids and preteen readers (ages 9-12), you can’t go wrong with small animals on big adventures. In “Haven: A Small Cat's Big Adventure” (Candlewick Press, 2022) by Megan Wagner Lloyd, a rescued cat teams up with an antsy fox on a journey to find help for Haven’s beloved human, Ma Millie.

“Survival Scout: Lost in the Mountains” (Roaring Brook Press, 2023) by Maxwell Eaton III kicks off a graphic novel series for aspiring adventurers. When Scout gets separated from her brother on a hike, she must find a way to make it back to civilization, all the while teaching readers how to survive in the wilderness. 

For teens (ages 13 and older), “The Atlas of Us” (HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024) by Kristin Dwyer clears a path through the Sierra Mountain hiking trails. Atlas James is directionless. In memory of her late father’s wish to hike the Western Sierra Trail, Atlas volunteers for a community service program cleaning up the trails. She spends four weeks in the wilderness, finding a sense of family in her trail mates and a way forward on her own. 

A camping adventure wouldn’t be complete without a scary story, and the young adult horror novel “The Woods Are Always Watching” (Dutton Books, 2021) by Stephanie Perkins fits that bill perfectly. When best friends Neena and Josie set out on their first backpacking trip the summer after high school, they find themselves in a fight for their friendship and their lives as they face the horror lurking in the forest. Prepare yourself for all the scares with this one! 

For adults, “Vanishing Edge” (Crooked Lane Books, 2021) by Claire Kells launches a mystery series perfect for outdoor enthusiasts. Investigative agent Felicity Harland and park ranger Ferdinand “Hux” Huxley team up to solve mysteries that occur within the National Park System — starting with an abandoned campsite and zero clues as to the cause of the campers’ disappearance. 

For nonfiction readers, “Hudson Bay Bound” (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) by Natalie Warren follows Natalie and her partner, Ann Raiho, on a 2,000-mile canoe journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, becoming the first women to complete that journey. Warren takes readers along on the journey as the pair tackles sexism, rapids and more on the Arctic waters. 

And lastly, Lonely Planet’s “Under the Stars USA” (Lonely Planet Global Limited, 2022) is a perfect campsite guide for the U.S. From roughing it to “glamping,” this travel guide highlights the best places in America to sleep under the stars. 

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