Birchbark Canoes

Videos

	Cesar's Bark Canoe/Cesar et son Canoe d'ecorce National Film Board of Canada, 1993 Order number: C 0371 074 This excellent 57 minute film with text in Cree, French and English follows 67 year old Cesar Newashish as he builds a canoe. Here's the NFB's Web site where you can order it.
	How to Make a Birch Bark Canoe The Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre, 1993 This is an amateurish, 20 minute video of Indians doing some of the steps in building a birchbark canoe. Many steps are left out without explanation and the final stages are done on a model canoe but the video is still interesting.
	Building an Algonquin Birchbark Canoe Trust for Native American Cultures and Crafts, 1984
	Earl's Canoe Features Earl Nyholm (Ojibway) building a traditional high-ended Ojibway canoe on Madeline Island in Lake Superior, a few miles offshore from Ashland, WI, in the summer of 1997. Available from Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St., Watertown, MA 02472 (617) 926-0491