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Graphic created by George Valdez
Stankiya, the 33-foot canoe the Grand Ronde Canoe Family is paddling in
the 2008 Canoe Journey, is carried to the Swinomish Channel in La Conner,
Wash., so paddlers can continue on the journey on Tuesday, July 22.
Photos by Michelle Alaimo
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Grand Ronde Canoe Family President Bobby Mercier, second from left, and
Canoe Family and Tribal member Brian Krehbiel, third from left, sing and Grand Ronde Canoe Family President Bobby Mercier asks the Swinomish
drum along with other Canoe Family members during a dinner after arriving Tribe for permission to leave the shore of the Swinomish Channel to continue
at the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community on Monday, July 21 .
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on the 2008 Canoe Journey on Tuesday, July 22.
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Grand Ronde Canoe Family members take part in protocol, along with other Tribes, In the Swinomish Tribe's smokehouse on Monday, July 21 .The Swinomish
Indian Tribal Community, In Washington state, was a stop on the 2008 Canoe Journey. More coverage of the Grand Ronde Canoe Family's paddle will appear In
the Aug. 1 S edition of Smoke Slgnalt.