Ancestral Tse-whit-zen Village
The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe is planning to build an ancestral village at the site where the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard was. This site used to be the Tse-whit-zen location until the early 1900s when it was razed for a sawmill.
First they're planning to landscape the area with native plants. Eventually they want to have a museum and cultural center. The goal is to have a re-created Tse-whit-zen as it stood until the early 1900s.
Tribal Chairwoman Frances Charles said: “By utilizing what we have, rediscovering it, we're changing the Columbus account that I grew up on.”
First they're planning to landscape the area with native plants. Eventually they want to have a museum and cultural center. The goal is to have a re-created Tse-whit-zen as it stood until the early 1900s.
Tribal Chairwoman Frances Charles said: “By utilizing what we have, rediscovering it, we're changing the Columbus account that I grew up on.”
Labels: Hood Canal Bridge graving yard, Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, Tribal Chairwoman Frances Charles, Tse-whit-zen Village
posted by Tom Harper at 6:37 PM
11 Comments:
Columbus is over rated.
Oh goody...that sure will create a lot of jobs...*sarcasm*
What a joke.
That land belongs to the people of Port Angeles...not just a few.
We need to take it back.
Maybe we can trade them those "people" statues for the waterfront land?
I wonder how many of their convicts are gonna work the museum?
I hope this blog isn't an accurate cross section of the local people. If it is, Port Angeles must be chock full of rednecks.
"redneck".....
Here?
Yeah, well, look where you are? In the middle of blue-collar ex loggers. What are you BLIND!
I see no high technology campus, filled with pencil-pushing geeks. I see no university (just a low end JC). I see no investment bankers or stockbrokers.
Yep...guess what, most of the country (out of urban centers) is red-necking, baseball hat wearing, --hopefully-- high school degreed, early breeders. Welcome to America.
Move the bones, and get over the "tse-whit-zen" .... the land should be used in any other way than a lame "museum" that no one is ever going to want to go to. Please....
Let the indigenous people take the bones, but go back to the reservation. (My own indigenous tribe had most of the burial area just built over...but that's because we fought the white devils...not made elaborate deals with them.)
Wouldn't it be funny if they put a convention center on there? Ha ha, that'd piss off the city.
THIS BLOG IS REALLY FUNNY!
I agree, get the frick over the "tse wit zen" crap...the schtick is getting old.
The tribes wonder why all the whites hate 'em...if they had only asked for a small portion of that land and let the graving yard proceed, they woulda got loads of respect.
Now with all the lost jobs and money, we hate 'em even more.
I even heard there were chinese bones in there.
where is our city archaeologist? Why hasn't he/she spoken regarding this city land swap...and cultural gem...
Hey, maybe the tribe will build a CASINO to honor the ancestral tse-whit-zen village....it can be the Tse-Whit-Zen CASINO!
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