Birch-bark canoe project puts Native culture in students’ hands

For hundreds of years, members of Wisconsin’s Native tribes have been building fast, lightweight canoes by covering a cedar hull with birch bark. Now, a group of Madison students, some of them Native American, have built their own version of the traditional watercraft, thanks to a collaboration between the school district and the local office of the Ho-Chunk Nation.

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