PORT ANGELES — An educator with the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe has created a Clallam County Museum exhibit giving the public expanded insight into the tribe’s history.
“A lot of this information has never been seen in Port Angeles, and a lot of the stories have never been published,” said Jamie Valadez, who put the exhibit together in time for Heritage Weekend in late September.
The exhibit, the tribe’s first at the museum, features a centerpiece map of Klallam village sites that once spanned most of the North Olympic Peninsula’s shorelines.
The museum is inside the federal building, 138 W. First St., and is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Besides photos and profiles of important figures in Klallam history — Hunter John, Boston Charlie, Tim Pysht and John Mike — the exhibit includes a map of the locations of 28 historic Klallam villages that once dotted the Peninsula’s shorelines from Hoko to Port Townsend and across Hood Canal in Port Gamble.
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News.
