LAPUSH — Children who attend the Quileute Tribal School and Head Start center will hold a gathering circle Jan. 13 to remember victims of last year’s Asian tsunami.
However, honoring the memory of more than 200,000 people who died on Dec. 26, 2004, is only part of the day’s events.
More than 50 children who attend the school, day care and Head Start program also will take part in a tsunami evacuation drill.
Almost the entire square-mile reservation lies within a tsunami zone, including the tribal school and offices.
“We have laid out evacuation routes and we have drills, but every one of us worries about what will happen,” Tribal Chairman Russell Woodruff Sr. said in a news release.
Remembering a person on the first anniversary of their death is a practice common among the Quileute, Woodruff said.