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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Site teaching Klallam tribe "who we were, who we are"

Lower Elwha Klallam tribal member John Parker looks for artifacts and bits of human remains in earth disturbed at a construction site in Port Angeles. Tribal members say the inadvertent discovery of their ancestral village was both a blessing and a curse. Saddened by destruction of parts of Tse-whit-zen and disturbance of hundreds of graves, some tribal members also see a cultural revival sparked by the find.