By Phuong Le
Tsawwassen, British Columbia (AP)
Pushing off one morning from a beach riddled with dead eelgrass, skipper Larry Nahanee plunked a scientific probe into the water and steered the hand-carved cedar canoe toward the next landing.
His ancestors, the Coast Salish, had paddled the same waters to Washington for hundreds of years before him, using canoes as spiritual vessels.
Tsawwassen, British Columbia (AP)
Pushing off one morning from a beach riddled with dead eelgrass, skipper Larry Nahanee plunked a scientific probe into the water and steered the hand-carved cedar canoe toward the next landing.
His ancestors, the Coast Salish, had paddled the same waters to Washington for hundreds of years before him, using canoes as spiritual vessels.