Page 1 - Chehalis Tribal Newsletter - July - August 2023
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The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, ‘People of the Sands’
TRIBAL
CHEHALIS NEWSLETTER
July-August 2023 FIND HISTORY, HERITAGE & RESOURCES AT CHEHALISTRIBE.ORG
inside Super celebration Blueberry bounty
Trauma and healing / 5 Elders Luncheon / 9 Warm welcome Elders fill their
Back-to-school event / 6 Fourth of July / 10 back for students buckets at farm
Youth workers / 7 LGBTQIA+ event / 11
Employee picnic / 8 EOT 2 celebration / 11 page 6 page 3
HONOR on the WATER Chehalis tribal elder Rodney
Youckton and fellow tribal elders
met former Mariners player
Edgar Martinez at the Legends
Sports Bar grand opening.
The Chehalis Canoe Family glides across Puget Sound
on Tulaap during the Paddle to Muckleshoot. Sports
Tribe pulls together to complete sacred Canoe Journey
By Frazier Myer bets now
he Chehalis Tribal Canoe Family
returned to the waterways to take at casino
Tpart in the 2023 intertribal Canoe
Journey Paddle to Muckleshoot. The theme
of this year’s voyage was Honoring Our Fans visit Legends
Warriors Past and Present. Bar, meet baseball
Tulaap is the name of the Chehalis
Tribe’s 27-foot vessel that the canoe family icon Edgar Martinez
takes on the annual journey. The Chehalis
people joined this year’s passage on July Lucky Eagle Casino & Hotel
24 in Lower Elwha near Port Angeles. This welcomed guests to the grand
was a main pit stop for dozens of canoe opening of its new Legends
families from the Pacific Coast and British Sports Bar on July 7. Hundreds
Columbia, Canada. PAGE 4 were in attendance to meet Hall
The group of canoes traveled together, of Fame Major League Baseball
making stops each night as tribes paddled Tribal youth player Edgar Martinez as the
along the Salish Sea. On July 25, they pulled embrace highlight of the celebration.
into Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe for a night tradition The new sports bar offers
of rest and preparation for the next leg of during Rites betting on a variety of events,
their journey to Port Townsend. of Passage including Major League
An issue with Tulaap arose when the Baseball, National Football
League, National Basketball
See JOURNEY / page 2 Association/Women’s National
See BETS / page 9
