a 16-foot half-scale model of a 32-foot historic Voyageur-style fur trading canoe, along with a 13-foot Ojibway hunter’s canoe. Birch bark canoes are made entirely of natural materials ...

The Ojibwe had never gone to war with the United States ... On April 5, 1852, Buffalo and his six companions loaded their 24-foot birch canoe with provisions of sugar, crackers and coffee. They also ...

It's easy to picture what the Ojibwa saw in the 1400s when they first traveled in birchbark canoes to what is now Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park. Little here has changed since then and ...

The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi ... snapshot of life and the landscape then, you can see a canoe resting ...

canoe highways radiated across the continent, to places like the Mississippi River, Atlantic Ocean and Hudson Bay. The head of the lake also had abundant food and medicine sources. Ojibwe often ...