The Lower Kootenay Band and youth canoe team invite everyone to participate in an event on Friday at the Rykerts border crossing (Canadian side) to mark a small portion of the Ktunaxa ancestors’ travel route between Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and Rykerts — a location of a village of the Ktunaxa people prior to the border being put into place.
Activities, including a teepee-raising, legend telling and face painting, will run at Rykerts from 2-4 p.m., at the end of which, a canoe will arrive, having travelled a portion of the Kootenay River south of the border.
At 5 p.m., a feast will follow at Big Daddy’s on the Porthill side — passports will be required to cross after the canoe team lands on the Canadian side.
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