Indigenous community members release birch bark boat into Lake Michigan

Indigenous students and community members gathered at the beach outside the Northwestern Sailing Center on Friday morning to launch a hand-crafted birch bark canoe for its inaugural trip on Lake Michigan. Indigenous community members took the canoe for a roughly five minute long trip in Lake Michigan before returning it to the shore to be...

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