Join us for a post-reading discussion of "Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages" by Candance Wellman. Open to Samish citizens and their households. 

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Throughout the mid-1800s, Coast and Interior Salish families arranged strategic cross-cultural marriages, and these alliances played a crucial role in regional settlement and spared Puget Sound's upper corner from the tragic conflicts other regions experienced. The four women profiled exhibited exceptional endurance, strength, and adaptability. Each woman's story is uniquely her own, but together they and other intermarried women left lasting legacies. They were peace weavers.