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    Canoe Island is a 47-acre (19-hectare) island located in the center of the San Juan Islands, an archipelago in the U.S. state of Washington. The island...
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  • Canoe Island can refer to: Canoe Island (Nova Scotia) Canoe Island (Ontario) Canoe Island (Washington) This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...
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    A canoe is a lightweight narrow water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing...
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    Fox Island is an island and census-designated place (CDP) in Pierce County, Washington, United States, in Puget Sound. It is located approximately 5 miles...
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    bridges on Washington State Route 20 connecting Whidbey Island in Island County, to Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington. It was...
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  • This is a list of selected islands that are part of Washington state. Islands portal Pacific Northwest portal "Washington State Office of Financial Management...
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    King County, Washington, United States. It covers an island alternately called Vashon Island or Vashon–Maury Island, the largest island in Puget Sound...
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    Buck Island Cactus Islands Canoe Island Castle Island Cayou Island (aka Rum Island) Cemetery Island Center Island (20) Charles Island Clark Island * Cliff...
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    Journey is a gathering of canoe cultures from Indigenous Nations from the coasts of Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon and Washington. It first took place in...
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    Hayden Island is an island in the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. The wide main channel of the Columbia (and the Washington–Oregon...
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    Connecticut, Georgia and Ohio Vision Tech Camps, California Canoe Island French Camp, Canoe Island, Washington Concordia Language Villages, Minnesota Al-Wāḥa, Arabic...
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    metal. Canoes are used for lagoon-fishing, but long poles rather than paddles or oars propel them. They seldom use the canoes for cross-island navigation...
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  • Dragging Canoe (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ, pronounced Tsiyu Gansini, c. 1738 – February 29, 1792) was a Cherokee red (or war) chief who led a band of Cherokee warriors...
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    Native American tribal government in western Washington state. Historically, the ancestors of the Squaxin Island Tribe inhabited several inlets of the South...
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    A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed-out tree. Other names for this type of boat are logboat and monoxylon. Monoxylon (μονόξυλον)...
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  • the Overmountain region of the American frontier. In mid-July, Dragging Canoe, Oconostota , and The Raven led a surprise attack on the Overmountain settlements...
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    Shaw Island is the smallest of the four San Juan Islands served by the Washington State Ferries. The island has a land area of 19.952 square kilometers...
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    Junkanoo (redirect from John Canoe dance)
    enslavers". The Washington Post. Bilby, Kenneth M. (2010-01-01). "Surviving Secularization: Masking the Spirit in the Jankunu (John Canoe) Festivals of...
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    Canoe camping, also known as touring, tripping or expedition canoeing, is a combination of canoeing and camping. Canoe campers typically carry enough supplies...
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    The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW or BWCA) comprises 1,090,000 acres (440,000 ha) of pristine forests, glacial lakes, and streams in the...
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    with nearly every island within the vast Polynesian Triangle, using outrigger canoes or double-hulled canoes. The double-hulled canoes were two large hulls...
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    Washington was the hometown of the fictional characters Ma and Pa Kettle from the "Ma and Pa Kettle" movie series. The children's novel Ghost Canoe (1998)...
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  • Camrose Tillicum Beach, a neighborhood on Camano Island, Washington, USA Tilikum (boat), a dug-out canoe used in Jack Voss and Norman Luxton's voyage around...
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    is thought to have been a cohabitational contact zone between different canoe-faring indigenous peoples living north and south of it. Anthropologist John...
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    beginning of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, which runs through Seattle and connects Lake Washington to Puget Sound. Broken Island is adjacent to Husky...
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    The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear-Admiral George Cockburn...
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    Polynesia (redirect from South Sea island)
    Lowell Don (1 August 1955). "Island Migrations (2): Birds and Sea Currents Aided Canoe Navigators". XXVI(1) Pacific Islands Monthly. Retrieved 1 October...
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    Yap (redirect from Yap Island)
    double-hulled voyaging canoe Alingano Maisu, gifted by the Polynesian Voyaging Society to master navigator Mau Piailug, is home-ported on the island of Yap under...
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    display in the atrium of the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC, the other, Spirit of Haida Gwaii: the Jade Canoe, is on display in Vancouver Airport). Haida...
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    known as Washington Island – these two names are constitutional) is a coral atoll in the central Pacific Ocean and part of the Northern Line Islands which...
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