(Photo Courtesy JANE FRITZ) JR Bluff & Francis Cullooyah welcome tribal members with a song as last years paddlers landed in Kettle Falls, Wash. Upper Columbia Plateau Tribes, which includes the Kalispel Tribe of Indians, will begin a journey from Sandpoint City Beach this Thursday and will make their way to Usk, Wash., in time for the 42nd annual Powwow celebration. They invite non-native paddlers to come along for part or all of the journey.
August 2, 2017
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Tribal members to begin journey at City Beach
SANDPOINT — Last summer, at Summer Solstice, members of The Upper Columbia Plateau Tribes, which includes the Kalispel Tribe of Indians, joined by their Canadian relations, paddled newly constructed dugout canoes — fashioned from ancient cedar trees donated by one of the tribes on the Northwest Coast — from their respective reservations to a traditional tribal landing and gathering site along the Columbia River at Kettle Falls, Wash.