PORT ANGELES — All-day activities for youths will occupy the young crews of the tribal Canoe Journey once they reach the Lower Elwha Klallam tribal reservation Aug. 1.
Three-on-three basketball games, teen dances, and presentations against abusing tobacco, alcohol and drugs are scheduled starting Aug. 2, canoe skippers from Northwest Native American tribes and Canadian First Nations learned Sunday.
They gathered at the Lower Elwha Tribal Center for a last captains’ briefing on the journey that some of them will start as early as mid-July.
A Suquamish family canoe, Spirit of Thunderbird, for instance, will start July 19 and call at the Lummi, Samish and Snohomish reservations, Coupeville, the Tulalip, Suquamish and Port Gamble S’Klallam reservations, Port Townsend, and the Jamestown S’Klallam reservation before reaching Port Angeles.
Other youth-oriented programs will include a presentation on suicide prevention.
