{"id":306961,"date":"2019-08-30T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=306961"},"modified":"2019-08-30T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:00:13","slug":"reviving-the-canoe-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/reviving-the-canoe-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviving the canoe culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_306962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306962\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Canoe-Camp-photo.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-306962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Indigenous Affairs Office and 500 Sails organized an appreciation get-together to celebrate the journey of the first Summer Canoe Camp participants. (Iva maurin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Indigenous Affairs Office and 500 Sails recently celebrated the achievement of five teens who completed a Summer Canoe Camp that introduced them to traditional canoe culture, including building and sailing.<\/p>\n<p>The monthlong camp saw Miles Timmons, 14; Conall Hartig, 14; Matthew Ernest, 14; Tama Salas, 16; and Ryan Hunter Simon, 16, taking part in efforts to revive the canoe culture on the islands.<br \/>\nTimmons said they learned how to sail and how to build a canoe using fiberglass. <\/p>\n<p>IAO program manager Cris Ogo urged the participants at a recent get-together to let other youths know that the camp is \u201ca safe place to work and that it is fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContinue to contribute and inspire other youth to join the program,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>IAO resident executive Roman Tudela Jr. thanked 500 Sails for its partnership. \u201c500 Sails has been with us from the very beginning\u2026and they have been taking a lot of steps to facilitate the revival of the canoe,\u201d Tudela said. <\/p>\n<p>500 Sails executive director Peter J. Perez said that reviving the canoe culture means making the canoe a part of people\u2019s daily lives. \u201cThat means people who fish, who use canoes for daily transportation, people who build and fix canoes, have ceremonies, and meet around them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Perez said the canoe culture was lost after the colonization of the islands. \u201cWe need to have that critical mass to make the canoe culture re-established,\u201d Perez added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indigenous Affairs Office and 500 Sails recently celebrated the achievement of five teens who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":306962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}