Menominee River Dugout Makes Its Maiden Voyage: 'We Made History'
A dugout canoe carved over the course of a month was launched on the Menominee River this week, the first such voyage in recent memory, ICT reported. The effort, rooted in Mamaceqtaw tradition, was led by water protectors who see the canoe as both a cultural reclamation and a living act of sovereignty on a river the Menominee have stewarded from time immemorial. Wayne Valliere's work reviving Ojibwe canoe traditions at Lac du Flambeau gives this story a Wisconsin-wide resonance: across the Anishinaabe and Menominee worlds, the paddle is back in the water. The Wisconsin Watch version (candidate 279) also ran this week; ICT is linked first as the Native source.