Tony Cladoosby, a Swinomish elder, prayed for a cedar canoe in the midst of his own canoe journey. He related the story of his vision for a family canoe that he would name "My Cousin," and of a second canoe to be named "My Last Cousin," in an earlier podcast episode, "Canoe Journey -- Part 3."
With the generous assistance of the Island County Historical Society Museum, Tony has been studying a nearly 200-year old canoe that once belonged to Chief Snetlum, with the intention of replicating its design using a cedar plank construction. How this cedar came into Tony's hands is itself a story about the answering of prayer, as Tony alludes to in this video podcast.
