Waterlogged | The Look Back

How do canoes recovered from a lake help us learn about the first communities in what is now Wisconsin? 

Dugout canoes were used across the Americas by Native people for thousands of years for travel, fishing, transporting goods, recreation, and more. With the recovery of two dugout canoes from the bottom of Lake Mendota, more about First Nations communities has been brought to the surface for us to learn from.

NOTE: Closed captions and transcript are available in Spanish.