SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) — More than a dozen tribal canoes, including one from the Lummi Tribe arrived at Alki Beach in Seattle as part of an annual Native American celebration.
Members of the Muckleshoot Tribe greeted the boats Thursday afternoon.
Tribes throughout the Northwest leave their own shores in canoes and visit other tribal lands as they make their way to the host tribe’s land.
Once onshore, pullers and volunteers heft each canoe overhead up the beach and above the high tide zone.
It takes at least two dozen pullers and volunteers to carry the canoes up the beach.
The journey ends on Lummi land on July 24, where about 100 canoes are expected.