Featuring:

• Jacob Bernier: Graduate Student, Heritage Studies and Public History; University of Minnesota
• Vicente M. Diaz: Professor, American Indian Studies, History, and Heritage Studies and Public History; Founding Director, The Native Canoe Program; University of Minnesota
• Mat Pendleton: Lower Sioux Community
• Gabriel Elias: Micronesian Community of Milan, MN

A sneak peek of the Why Canoes: Capacious Vessels and Indigenous Futures of Minnesota's Peoples and Places exhibit that is scheduled to open in February 2021 with exhibit co-curator Jacob Bernier, graduate student in HSPH; Professor Vicente M. Diaz, American Indian Studies and Director, The Native Canoe Program; and community participants Mat Pendleton, Lower Sioux Community; and Gabriel Elias, Micronesian Community of Milan, MN.

A dialogue on Indigenous canoe revitalization, traditional ecological knowledge about water, and community-engaged teaching, learning, research and relations-making with Indigenous people of Minnesota and Oceania.