In the stories of creation among Northwest native American tribes, Raven created the world. We visited a Tribal Museum that is keeping and sharing their cultural traditions.
There I met a woman of the Cupik tribe whose grandfather was a native Norwegian who came to the area 60+ years ago to help the people learn to herd reindeer. Her grandmother was the first to marry outside her tribe, to a tribal man (not white) of a distant land.
Another man told us of his shaman grandfather who had sent him a dream years ago that their stories would be told and spread to a wider audience. Now this Museum exists and the man is a storyteller and drum painter, fulfilling his dream's prophecy.
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