Members of a Chilkat Valley-based Native canoe group say they’ll be paddling to Skagway and Katzehin following a successful voyage – including through rough seas – to Juneau’s Celebration event.

Twenty members of North Tide Canoe Kwaan made the week-long trip that culminated at a meet-up with other Southeast Natives who canoed from their towns to Juneau’s Sandy Beach. Pilots in planes overhead dipped their wings and motorists on Egan Drive tooted their horns as…