carrying up to thirty passengers. Early white settlers in the area noted the great skill the Klallam used in canoe handling and navigation, and that the Klallam canoes tended to be larger than those used by other Puget Sound tribes. Diet The lands, rivers, marine waters, and beaches in Klallam territory provided an abundant, year-round supply of food. Strategic intertribal marriages and agreements also allowed them permission to hunt or forage outside their homeland. Though their diet included large and small land game, sea fowl, and shellfish, the most important source of food was fish. Salmon still plays a significant nutritional and spiritual role in the Klallam culture. The Klallam fished year round using a variety of tools and techniques particular to the species, location, and season. They were known to use traps, trolling, gillnets, spears, rakes, dip nets, and holes dug in the beach. Specific locations were known to produce certain fishes at the right time of year, and special implements and skills were employed for a successful catch. Ethnobotany They apply a poultice of the smashed flowers of Viola adunca to the chest or side for pain. Tribal groups Lower Elwha Tribal Community of the Lower Elwha Reservation, Washington Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of Washington Port Gamble Indian Community of the Port Gamble Reservation, Washington Scia'new First Nation (Becher Bay Indian Band), Vancouver Island, British Columbia Schools The Klallam tribes do not operate their own schools. Lower Elwha Klallam children are offered a Klallam cultural and language immersion program at the Lower Elwha Klallam Head Start. Older children are provided with Klallam language and tribal history courses at Dry Creek Elementary School, Stevens Middle School and Port Angeles High School, where most Lower Elwha Klallam children attend school. A majority of Jamestown S'Klallam children attend Sequim School District schools. A majority of Port Gamble Klallam children attend schools in the North Kitsap School District in the Kingston area. See also Tse-whit-zen, an ancient Klallam village unearthed in 2004 in Port Angeles, Washington Coast Salish Clallam (steamboat) References Further reading Boyd, Colleen E. 2009 "You see your culture coming out of the ground like a power": Uncanny Encounters in Time and Space on the Northwest Coast. Ethnohistory 56(4): 699-732. Boyd, Colleen E. 2009 "The Indians themselves are greatly enthused": The Wheeler-Howard Act and the Reorganization of Klallam Space. The Journal of Northwest Anthropology 43(1):3-26. Boyd, Colleen E. 2006 "That government