Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Meet 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe)
Description: Culture-bearer and 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) is one of a handful of birch bark canoe builders left in the United States. The Ojibwe is a nation and cultural community that has a deep connection to waterways, and the birch bark canoe was commonly used for transportation, fishing, harvesting wild rice, and hunting. The tradition of building these canoes had been handed down for millennia. The boats are as beautiful as they are functional; in fact, it is one of the most sophisticated inland watercrafts in the world. Wayne Valliere is determined to keep this c...