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By Mike Vouri,Julia Vouri

With sheltered harbors, open prairies, and secluded woodlands, San Juan Island has been a magnet for human habitation for hundreds of thousands of years. Salmon runs and wealthy soil promised not just an ample nutrients resource but additionally an exceptional dwelling for these keen to work flat out. however it was once no longer until eventually the islands grew to become the focal point of a world boundary dispute among nice Britain and the USA within the past due 1850s that San Juan Island drew the eye of Europeans and american citizens. those beginners watched how Coast Salish and Northwest Coast peoples harvested average assets and tailored their concepts. Settlers and Indians occasionally intermarried, and lots of in their descendants stay to at the present time. San Juan Islanders of all generations have labored not easy to maintain their domestic, therefore conserving a feeling of position that's as obtrusive this day because it was once while the 1st canoes got here ashore.

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