A journey to Celebration brings reflections on culture and grief amidst rough seas
Until recently, 24-year-old YaKunda.ein Avery Herrman Sakamoto hadn’t spent much time in a canoe. Then she signed up to paddle more than 100 miles through Southeast Alaska’s inside waters from Petersburg to Juneau. She joined dozens of paddlers heading north to Celebration, the largest gathering of Tlingít , Haida, and Tsimshian peoples in the world. Some of the paddlers started in Ketchikan, others were from Prince of Wales Island, or Wrangell. A few came up from the Lower 48 to make the trip.
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