Mi’sel Joe, Chief of Miawpukek First Nation, has spent decades working to bring the tradition of birchbark canoe–building ... almost lost. By building canoes using only materials harvested ...

This documentary shows how a canoe is built the old way. César Newashish, a 67-year-old Atikamekw of the Manawan Reserve north of Montreal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum.