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. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/42022 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Creators | Lincoln, Leslie Jeanne |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | 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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