The Dei Shu Dancers (left) joined with Colombian spiritual leaders (center), visitors and locals to bless the water at Chilkat Inlet on Wednesday, June 26.
On June 26, a year to the hour of the death of 23-year-old Mario Julian Benassi, more than 60 out-of-town visitors, Alaska Natives from Chilkoot Indian Association and Klukwan, and indigenous South American spiritual leaders joined along the confluence of the Chilkat River and the inlet for…