Mi’kmaq Canoe Builder Connected for Thousands of Years. Todd Labrador
Description
This episode of the Green Interview features Todd Labrador, a respected and celebrated traditional Mi’kmaq canoe builder who speaks with Silver Donald Cameron about the painstaking process involved in making the traditional birch bark canoes and how he hopes it will help to preserve the knowledge and worldview of his ancestors who lived sustainably on the east coast of Canada for millennia. Labrador is also an artist who paints and makes traditional drums decorated with designs derived from the ancient petroglyphs carved in the rocks of his Nova Scotia homeland.
Runtime
1 hr 7 min 57 sec
Subjects
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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