The Anchorage pullers arrived at Petroglyph Beach on May 23 for a canoe naming ceremony. One of the canoes they will paddle to Juneau was dedicated to Wrangell's Marge Byrd, Kiks.adi matriarch Shaawat Shoogoo. The canoe's name is Xíxch' dexí (Frog Backbone).
A canoe with 16 paddlers from Wrangell and at least four more canoes from other communities were scheduled to push off Wednesday morning toward Juneau, roughly a 150-mile journey to Celebration, the biennial Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultural festival.
The paddlers are scheduled to arrive in downtown Juneau at 11:30 a.m. June 4. Celebration will run June 5-8.
The Wrangell canoe planned to leave from the Reliance Float.
The theme for this year's event is "Together We Live in Balance," and the festival's featured dance group is the Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Dakhká Khwáan Dancers (People of...
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