Swinomish Fleet Blessing 2007
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community held its annual Blessing of the Fleet and First Salmon Ceremony.
The celebration, marking the beginning of the fishing season, honors and protects the tribes fishing fleet. After a seafood feast of salmon, halibut, crab, prawns, mussels and clams, blessings were said over the remains of four wild salmon from the Skagit River.
The fish were wrapped in cedar boughs and carried by young men from the tribe on to a boat and tribal fishermen released the salmon to all four directions on the Skagit River.
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