Elders of Cascadia

Carriers of Indigenous Spirits of Cascadia - Sharing common breathe, drinking of sacred waters, walking ancestral grounds, lighting fires light. "In our present living - Can we circle with elders & teachers knowing that we are listening and living with respect for all existence? Will the 7th Generation receive a world as abundant as the one we have received? Are we dancing centering between the worlds?" Representing living and ancestral elders. Please suggest edits or additions. Eee Hychka!
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Tlingit Chief Charles Jones Shakes at home with possessions, Wrangell, Alaska, ca. 1907
Tlingit Chief Charles Jones Shakes at home with possessions, Wrangell, Alaska…
Open Exhibit
Nathan Jackson - Master Carver Charlene Gerrish, NWS, WW, WHS Aptos, CA 38"x30" ~~ This image is the property of the artist and protected by copyright.
Tsiark - or medicine dance of the Makahs. Women dress front view (<a href='http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Record/3432791'>view</a>)
James Swan's watercolor of Haida tattoo ceremony, circa 1883
LUX: Yale Collections Discovery
[Drawing of Indian ceremonial dancer with headdress.] James Swan sketch, circa 1860 Nootkan?
Squarespace - Claim This Domain
wenatchi indian tribe | Chief Jim James, Sept. 17, 1913 in Spokane, Wash.
1893 Umatilla Native American Indian Camp Tepee Print - ORIGINAL AW2
"Umatilla Indian Camp, Oregon." This is an original 1893 duotone print of a train passing an Umatilla camp in Oregon. Please note that there is printing on the reverse. Period Paper is pleased to offe
Upper Chinook Clackamas
Upper Chinook Clackamas expert boatmen pioneers hired for transportEarly pioneers said canoes lined E bank at Canemah (above the Falls) for1/2 mile.Canoes were also coffins. Tools weapons & beadwork left with dead.Historian wrote "Overlooking the falls on both sides, canoes containing bodies of the dead were lodged on scaffolds in the trees, or hung like cocoons to every jutting shelf or rock at Canemah and at West Linn"