Wayne Valliere picks up a long, thin spruce root — lovingly soaked, stretched and whittled into ribbonlike smoothness. Normally, he would be using the root to sew a traditional Ojibwe canoe, but, for the moment, he is making a point: The root is actually quite fragile....
He grabs a stray chunk of cedar, the wood used for the canoe’s frame, and casually splits it in two with a loud “ Thwack!...
” “ The teaching is, alone we’re weak, but together we’re strong, ” Valliere said.“ These materials
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