Native Salish Canoes and Tribal Journeys ~ A History Leslie Lincoln 1:00 Sunday March 18, 2018 Event is FREE with admission to the Seaport Foss Waterway Seaport 705 Dock Street Tacoma, WA 98402 Leslie will be sharing historical photos and information of the Native Canoes as well as the beginning of Canoe Journey, a remarkable movement on the water that now happens almost every year. Taught by her father at age 8, Leslie learned to sail their tiny home built boat. This love for the connection of vessels on the water has sustained her whole life. Aboard her 30’ wooden ketch, she circumnavigated Vancouver Island at 20 years old and learned then of the Native Coastal people. Then under Bill Holm, she studied Northwest Coast Culture at the Univ. of WA & later got her Master's at UBC in Canada. While in BC she commercial fished in Haida Gwaii. During these years she was active in support of the efforts to BRING BACK NATIVE CANOE CULTURE and was in the forefront of the Paddle to Seattle in 1989, gathering Native Oral Histories, archival photographs and more. Under the Center for Wooden Boat’s encouragement she learned to take and draw naval architectural Lines Drawings of representative Native Cedar Dugout Canoes and then wrote COAST SALISH CANOES which remains of enduring value two decades later. For the last twenty years she’s worked with the US Merchant Marine as a Radio Electronics Officers shipping around the world. Please contact the Foss Waterway Seaport with any questions: 253-272-2750 info@fosswaterwayseaport.org ​