Luther and Deloris Mills are two of the sweetest people you will ever meet. They are, what you can call, our hosts on the reservation. They are the ones who invite the group back year after year to do VBS and other ministry opportunites, and have continued to do this for the last 10 years. Deloris offered to cook our team lunch so she served up an Indian Goulash served over white rice which was just scrumptious. It filled our bellies and satisfied our hunger we developed while doing Bible school. Wow it was so good! We also got to eat some traditional Fry Bread. Again this is just another example of the Suquamish people's generous and giving nature.
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Leonard, who is head of the Tribal Council, took us on a specail tour of Suquamish and gave us a great history lesson of their people from the early years and especially of the last 300 years. It is sad to hear how Christians and the Government have done terrible damage to thier history and thier culture over the last 300 years in the name of "civilizing the native people." We were able to stand on the shoreline of the place where the Suquamish originally settled, see their famous Chief Seattle's grave (who the city of Seattle was named after), and look at two 11 man sea baring canoes which were hand carved out of one cedar tree (the tree was cut in half down the middle and the two pieces were then carved into the canoes, that's one big tree).
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