Breaking ground

Description:

In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet the state continued its project, disturbing hundreds of burials and unearthing more than 10,000 artifacts at Tse-whit-zen village, the heart of the long-buried homeland of the Klallam people.

subjects: Antiquities,  Clallam Indians,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Interviews,  Ethnic relations,  Collection and preservation,  Excavations (Archaeology),  Pictorial works,  Indians of north america, antiquities,  Excavations (archaeology), north america,  Indians of north america, pictorial works,  Washington (state), antiquities,  United states, ethnic relations

Places: Washington (State),  Port Angeles,  Port Angeles (Wash.),  Washington Lower Elwha Tribal Community of the Lower Elwha Reservation,  Tse-whit-zen Village Site (Wash.)