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.”