Rural Heritage helps completion of Nisqually tribal collection
Canoers paddling near La Push just before sunset. (Photos courtesy Allen Frazier) Since its creation in 2007, the Washington Rural Heritage program has helped many local libraries, museums and other history-based organizations throughout the state compile, digitize and present historical photos of their communities. The Rural Heritage program, part of the Washington State Library, just completed its most recent project: the Nisqually Indian Tribe’s “The Canoe Journeys – a Nisqually Perspective” collection, which documents the tribe’s participation in the annual…