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On The Menu Guests were treated to a meal complete with traditional foods prepared in traditional ways. Above, salmon is roasted over an open fire pit and in
the inset, skewered eel also roasts on the open fire. Crowds overflowed the Tribal Community Center to eat and witness the name-giving.
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Family & Friends Tribal member Mike Larsen
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Feast Presentation Head cook Wilbur Johnson prepared
the 200 pounds of fresh, Columbia River salmon.
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On The Trail We-la-lik is draped in blankets, each to be given to a guest attending the ceremony. Laid out in front ofWe-la-lik are the many traditional gifts the Holmes
family picked out for guests. We-la-lik is draped in Pendleton blankets, each to be given to a guest attending the name giving ceremony. Laid out in front ofWe-la-lik is the
many traditional gifts the Holmes family picked out for many of nearly 200 guests. Warm Springs Medicine manTaaw-lee-winch called the arrangement of gifts "aTrail."