Making a Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker
By Joe Martin and Alan Hoover
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Joe Martin
Been driving for 35 years on various conditioned roads. Howled off 22% grades, ice and snow, and one lane roads.
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Making a Chaputs - Joe Martin
Introduction
My father, Chief Robert Martin Sr., continued to live in this cabin after the blockade. It was here that he received the court ruling which included the injunction that stopped logging on Meares Island. LEIGH HILBERT PHOTOGRAPH.
MY NAME IS JOE MARTIN. My traditional name is Tuu-tah-qwees nup-she-tl (Tutakwisnapšiƛ), a traditional name from our house. After I was born in Tofino General Hospital was when I had my first canoe ride. My father picked up my mother and me in a canoe and brought us from Tofino to our home at Opitsaht village.
Being out on the ocean a lot, my father often spoke about the mountains, where the songs and dances of the Tla-o-qui-aht were conceived. Every mountain was known by its Tla-o-qui-aht or Nuu-chah-nulth name. Other names referred to fishing grounds in Tla-o-qui-aht Haa-huu-thli (territory) or where the ha-wiih (hereditary chiefs) and whalers went to pray before the beginning of the whale hunting season.
Canoes were treated with much care, as they were an essential part of Nuu-chah-nulth culture as the main means of transportation. Therefore it was very important for the males of the tribes to know how to make a canoe. This teaching began at a very young age and continued throughout life as one learned about the Laws regarding the use of any resource needed by the people. This is what I would like to share with you in this book about the art of canoe making.
In 1981 we paddled from Tofino up to Nootka Sound, around Nootka Island, and back. Eleven people departed, but only five or six returned—people bailed out along the way. We shot a seal and ate it, also a deer. We also caught salmon, barnacles and mussels, and an octopus. We had to launch through huge surf one day. The 27-foot canoe nearly got airborne while punching