Birchbark Canoes and Wild Rice

In the fall of 2015, the 8th graders of Lac du Flambeau Public School harvested wild rice on a lake near the Waaswaaganing (Lac du Flambeau) Reservation. This film documents the value of the repatriation of Ojibwe heritage within the school curriculum through the building of a birchbark canoe and the continued harvesting of rice as a community-oriented event.

Learn more at:

http://go.wisc.edu/canoe

http://locallearningnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Ojibwe-School-from-JFEv3-2.pdf

And see the first film "Wiigwaasi-Jiimaan: These Canoes Carry Culture":

https://vimeo.com/145946701

This film was created by:

Marcus Cederström

Tom DuBois

Tim Frandy

Music by:

Wigwam Nation

Lac du Flambeau Public School Drum Group