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Haida warriors used rope tied to stone rings to destroy these objects. The “Ti’at Society” preserves a tradition of creating these objects traditionally formed by a “brotherhood” of the Chumash (“CHOO-mosh”) people, called a tomol. A 2005 study by Klar and Jones used linguistic evidence to claim that these objects were brought to California by Hawaiians. “Pullers” used ax̱áa (“uh-KHAH”) to maneuver (-5[1])these objects (10[1]-5[1])among the Tlingit, (0[1])who encountered Russian and Aleut forces using a variant of these objects called baidarka (10[1])at the Battle (-5[1])of Sitka. Swinomish people (10[1])helped students from the University of Washington practice racing these objects before their 1936 (10[1])Olympic gold medal. (10[2]-5[1])Protrusions for stability were not included in the Native Californian “dugout” type of these (10[1])objects. For 10 points, Native Hawaiians used “outrigger” examples of what seafaring vessels? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: canoes [or yaakw; accept kayak or iqyax; accept tomol or baidarka until read; prompt on boats or The Boys in the Boat; reject “ships”]
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Alex JiangBrown AHarvard A59-5
Ethan SiskelTufts BBrandeises Brew6110
Yrwin BatanMIT AYale A61-5
Sohum SukhatankarHarvard ABrown A640
Jem BurchYale BClark A7810
Bakhtiyarov KhumoyunA Brandeis SupremeDiamond Brandeis81-5
JaehyunBU ABowdoin A8510
Peter ScullyTufts ACarabrandeis9910
Nate KodamaBowdoin BAmherst A10210
William OrrYale AMIT A10210
Roger ChennYale CNortheastern A102-5
Cindy ZhouBoston University BWilliams A11610
Rajat SethiNortheastern AYale C12910
Christopher DechDiamond BrandeisA Brandeis Supreme13010