Atikamekw Inini O'Ojiton Wigwas Tciman...

Watch a man create a canoe directly from the forest using only simple hand tools...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRFCxxAKafc

Netsilik Inuit O'Ojiton Inuit Tciman...

http://www.nfb.ca/film/building_kayak_pt_1

http://www.nfb.ca/film/building_kayak_pt_2

Anishinabe O'Ojiton Wigwas Tciman...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMSwz5BWGo

Pikwakanagan (Golden Lake near Pembroke, Ontario).

Kets Inini O'Ojiton Mitigo Tciman...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29tcRQwCf1Q

Master builder Matt Bernard, Anishinabe, in the bow of his Gitchi Tciman at Pikwakanagan. 1957.
36 foot Gitchi Tciman.
6 foot wide.
3 foot deep at center.
Bow and stern about 6 feet tall.

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseu...LH00010038.jpg

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseu...LH00010009.jpg

"What do you do when you're lost in the bush. Here's what we did." - Bob Anderson, NFB.
Ahah hah, y'mean here's what Angus Baptiste did! Literally all of it, while you other sorry @$$es tagged along doing nothing and knowing nothing. And then not even listing Angus' name in the credits at the end...:vd:

Very good short documentary though.
1954 somewhere in the wilderness in Quebec:
http://www.nfb.ca/film/survival_in_the_bush

I got 3/4 of the way through that first one the other night. What a life and skill!:cool:

Innu Inini O'Ojiton Tciman...

The Innu (formerly called Montagnais) at the north side of the Gulf of St.Lawrence make their canoes with quite a few construction differences from the Anishinabe, Atikamekw, Wabanaki, Maliseet.
Different materials because of their location, and different procedures, but an excellent canoe is still the result.

Canoe : Materials and Preparation | Material Culture | Culture | Nametau innu: Memory and knowledge of Nitassinan

Canoe : Assembly | Material Culture | Culture | Nametau innu: Memory and knowledge of Nitassinan

Canoe : Specificity, Trial | Material Culture | Culture | Nametau innu: Memory and knowledge of Nitassinan

Anishinabe. Kitay Iah. Regis onagadjiton e-anokich, e-kigosikech, ashidj e-mitigokech. Mino Pimadiziwin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwQmuLbvJTw

Anishinabe. Aged one. Regis is a great hunter, fisherman, and woodsmen. The Good Life!

This is where I grew up, where I'm from. Haven't lived there for a long time though, but Kipawa Lake will always be my home.
I visited the old man in the video about a week ago at the hospital. He was born in 1917 in the Fall at Ostoboning Lake. For some perspective, 2 years later in 1919, Dempsey defeated Willard for the Heavyweight Title.

Man's 95 years old now, he was 90 in the clip. One of our tribal Elders...

Ash splint basket-making. Hard manual labor to make those kind of baskets...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDw0rwL2wDQ