Birch bark canoe launched from Lake Michigan at Northwestern

For the first time in nearly 400 years, a birch bark canoe was reintroduced to the Chicago-area shore of Lake Michigan (Mishigami).  Only six Ojibwe birch bark canoe builders still exist in the Great Lakes region, according to artist Wayne Valliere (Mino-Giizhig), a Lac Du Flambeau Ojibwe. The launch site on Northwestern’s campus is home...

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