Washington Governor Christine Gregoire breaks a bottle of champagne on the bow to inaugurate MV Chetzemoka. With her, from left, are Captain Mark Haupt; Assistant Secretary of Transportation David Moseley; Mike Gregoire; Congressman Jay Inslee; Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond, and local State representatives.

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal citizen Patrick Adams blesses the new vessel, while to his left, descendants of cicm?hán including Kurt Grinnell, Vince Prince and family, Les Prince and Jack Grinnell, as well as Department of Transportation dignitaries, and Tribal Elders Vickie Carroll and Janet Duncan look on.

In 1927, the first MV Chetzemoka was built in Alameda, CA. In 2010, MV Chetzemoka was the name selected by Washington State Ferries for its newest Kwa-di Tabil-class ferry. Two years later, it was relocated to the Vashon Island run, but occasionally returns to service in Port Townsend.

It is fitting that ferries have been named for Pacific Northwest Native American Tribal leaders, as travel by water was the norm for the Tribes of the Salish Sea.

From the ferry overlook, you are looking across at Admiralty Inlet, a tiny part of the “Usual and Accustomed” land and adjacent fresh and salt waterways used by the S’Klallam people, who retained their rights to hunt, fish and gather there when they signed the Treaty of 1855. Those rights were systematically repressed by the State of Washington until the Boldt Decision of 1974, which finally affirmed Tribes’ rights to fish. United States v. Washington, 384 F. Supp. 312 (W.D. Wash. 1974), aff’d, 520 F.2d 676 (9th Cir. 1975), commonly known as the Boldt Decision (from the name of the trial court judge, George Hugo Boldt), was a 1974 case heard in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. It reaffirmed the reserved right of American Indian tribes in the State of Washington to act alongside the state as co-managers of salmon and other fish, and to continue harvesting in accordance with the various treaties that the United States had signed with the tribes. The tribes of Washington had ceded their land to the United States but had reserved the right to fish as they had always done, including fishing at their traditional locations that were off the designated reservations.

Click the markers on the map above to visit the
trail site pages.

Trail Sign Locations:

1. Chetzemoka Park
   _{900 Jackson St. (main entrance)}
    
2. Hudson Beach/Big Heart
   _{103 Hudson St.}
    
3. Point Hudson
   _{103 Hudson St.}
    
4. Northwest Maritime Center
   _{Water St. & Monroe St.}
    
5. Village at Memorial Field
   _{Washington St.}
    
6. Fowler Building
   _{226 Adams St.}
    
7. Union Wharf/Indian Island
   _{Wharf on end of Taylor St.}
    
8. Port Townsend Ferry Overlook
   _{1200 Block of Washington St.}
    
9. Port Townsend Post Office
   _{1322 Washington St.}
    
10. qatáy Lagoon
    
     
11. Laurel Grove Cemetery
    _{24th St. & Discovery Rd.}
     
12. Swan School / Klallam language
    _{2345 Kuhn St.}
     
13. Sentinel Rock
    _{1948 Blaine St. (Golf Course)}
     
14. qatáy Prairie
    _{1948 Blaine St.}
     
15. Four Points
    _{Blaine St. & and VanBuren St.}
     
16. qatáy Valley
    _{Pacific Ave.& Milo St.}
     
17. North Beach
    _{End of Kuhn St.}
     
18. Point Wilson
    _{Fort Worden}
     

 

 

 

Map PDF version

 

 

 

Previous Trail Sign

Next Trail Sign

Union Wharf / Indian Island  

 Port Townsend Post Office