They say, you know, if you go out on the point and you look in the water, you can still see

your hair moving around in the water because she's there guarding us and protecting the

people.

Even today, you can kind of feel the presence, I think, of the main conception past and

Kakuala Woot.

Kakuala Woot, that's the name of the young woman who lived here a long time ago, who

crouched over the tide pools along this beach, looked into the water and saw a face looking

back at her that wasn't her own.

Today, her family is still telling the story of what happened next.

I'm Sarah Weiman, this is Atlas Pschera, and Kakuala Woot's story and how she continues

to provide for her people are after this.

I mean, they say that the table's set when the tide's out, right?

That's true here.

If you starved a death here in the San Juan Islands or something wrong with you, because

any beach you walk along, there's something to eat.

Tom Wooten is the chairman of the Samish Indian Nation, and he's standing next to me on a

cliff overlooking the ocean on the coast of northwestern Washington.

In front of us, in every direction are islands, covered in trees and wisps of fog.

And behind where we're standing, there used to be a village.

The people who lived there would gather clams from the beach when the tide went out.

They carved canoes from cedar trees and paddled them between the islands.

They caught fish in their nets and brought them home to the village on the peninsula.

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