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DESCRIBING: A small, horizontal, color photograph of a traditional canoe and paddlers on the Columbia River.
SYNOPSIS: A photograph of tribal pullers, or paddlers, and their guests participating in an annual multi-tribe canoe journey on the Columbia River. The eleven pullers are paddling away from the viewer at a 10-degree angle to the left in a traditional dugout canoe, which is a narrow, low-profile, wooden canoe painted black with blue trim with the front and back ends angled up away from the water. The inside of the canoe is painted red. The pullers sit in a single-file line wearing orange life vests and paddling one paddle each in an alternating pattern on the right and left sides of the canoe.
CAPTION: Tribal pullers (paddlers) guide a traditional canoe.
CREDIT: NPS / FOVA
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Welcome to a place where the stories of many cultures are being revealed. The objects and stories come from decades of careful digging, research, discussion, and thought. Explore the park and see how other cultures contribute to your own history.
Start at the visitor center, which has exhibits and films. Walkways connect most features of the park. Pearson Air Museum displays planes and tells the story of aviation. Talk to the volunteers and rangers who bring history to life at the stockade and village. Cross the Land Bridge, which has reunited the fort with the waterfront one hundred years after the railroad separated the two.
As you explore the park, look for signs of ongoing discovery. Archeologists, students, and volunteers work here every day to uncover the many layers of stories this place has witnessed. Add your own experience to the history of Fort Vancouver.
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