“Paddle To Elwha 2005. Reflections of Our Past: Honoring Our Ancestors”

Niki Cleary  reporter, Tulalip and Morgan Howard reporter, Tlingit

Two N.W.I.N. camera crews begin the canoe journey more than one hundred miles away from the final destination and gathering place of the Lower Elwha Klallam Reservation. Reporter Niki Cleary and photographer Mark Anderson, Cowlitz, join with the Quinault Canoe family and depart from Taholah, Washington while reporter Morgan Howard and photographer Brian Berry join with the Squaxin Island Tribe and depart from southern Puget Sound to begin the canoe journey. The two crews are there during the eight plus day journeys to capture on tape the enchantment and the hardship of the journey and the thoughts of those who participated. The N.W.I.N. reports include the scope and the depth of  cultural significance and meaning of the canoe journey to the Tribal and Band members who ‘travel the highways of their ancestors.’