"From Wood to Watercraft: Dugout Canoes of Wisconsin": In-Person Badger Talk in Cottage Grove, WI

Name: "From Wood to Watercraft: Dugout Canoes of Wisconsin": In-Person Badger Talk in Cottage Grove, WI
Start: 2025-02-13T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 107 E Reynolds St, Cottage Grove, WI 53527, United States

Schedule

Thu, 13 Feb, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

107 E Reynolds St, Cottage Grove, WI 53527, United States | Cottage Grove, WI

This free, in-person presentation on February 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM is a part of the Village of Cottage Grove Library Board's free library programming. It will be hosted at Drumlin Residences Independent Living Community Room.
No registration is required to attend!
The Wisconsin Dugout Canoe Survey Project highlights the persistence of cultural traditions and technological ingenuity. It embodies the Wisconsin Idea by engaging local and national museums, historical societies, and tribal museums in this project that is documenting an important yet relatively rare form of material culture.
Sissel Schroeder received her PhD from The Pennsylvania State University and is currently a Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is also an affiliate of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the Center for Culture, History, and the Environment, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, and the Material Culture Studies Program. Her current research is focused on issues of sociopolitical complexity, climate change impacts, and historical ecology among ancient Native American societies of the southeastern and midwestern United States.