12 - Sunday, June 13, 1993 - North Shore News

uniting the people

From page 9

Sechelt Nation, a 25-mile (40 km)
wip from Vancouver. Two nights
were spent at beach camps on
Thormanby {sland and on Lang
Bay before arriving for the official
welcome at Sliammon.

At cach village, the paddlers
were greeted with @ warmth and
hospitality hard to imagine in
other societies.

Homes were thrown open,
showers provided, transportation
given, feasts held. It was a show
of hospitality that reached deep
down into the soul.

Gifts were exchanged in each
village, and offerings given to be
bles around the sacred fires of
Waglisla, ensuring that those
villages unable to attend the festi-
val would be honored there in
spirit.

As Bob Baker, skipper of the
Squamish canoe, told those
gathered in the Sliammon feast
hall, “We will be taking you with
us in our hearts to Bella Bella.
There will be a seat in the canoe
for all of you,”’

The Qatuwas event is already
‘beginning to unite the tribes along
the coast. As they get closer
north, the clation will become
even more intense.

“This paddle is different from
any other (inter-tribal) events we
usually have,’? said one of the
Squamish paddlers, Wesley
Nahanee,

“With baseball. or soccer or
other sports, it's so competitive.
Everybody has the attitude, ‘I'm
better than you.’ With this paddle
we're coming with peace and love

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NATIVE AFFAIRS reporter Paul Hughes followed the Squamish
paddlers in an escort boat as they travetled on the first leg of

their journey.

in our hearts,"* he said.

The people of Stiammon were
affected too,

Signs of a culture undergoing a
rebirth shimmered in the shy eyes
of the children who came up to
touch the canoe, to feel a paddle
in their hands, to reach back in
time and fink deep into their
tradition,

Soon, their shyness overcome,
they asked to beat a drum, to join
in a dance, to talk in noisy voices
about their own dreams of the
future,

The fire of enthusiasm shone in
the faces of the elders, those on
the beach whose eyes are burden-

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One elder, who followed the
Squamish canoe in his speedboat
us it approached shore, spoke of
how the paddlers’ voices, raised
high in song, echoed across the
waves and into a valley where the
old village, now the site of a dam
and mill, once stood.

His heart swelled with pride as
he thought of the ancestors hear-
ing once again the beat of drum
and the splash of paddle.

As Sheryl Rivers, one of the
Squamish paddlers said tater, “It
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