Paddlers from Anchorage made their way past cruise ships docked in downtown Juneau before their landing on June 4 in advance of the start of Celebration.
"Good morning Paddle to Celebration 2024! It's time to get up!" Jim Zeller's booming voice echoed through the forest. It was 4:30 a.m. and rain pattered the roof of my tent on Read Island. I could hear people in nearby tents begin to stir, along with the faint snoring of those that hadn't been roused by Zeller.
We were a couple days into our seven-day canoe journey from Wrangell to Juneau, where we would arrive for Celebration, the biennial gathering of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people.
The paddle began in the early 2000s as a way to celebrate and strengthen the traditional mode of travel a...
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