Paddling Through Time: The Long History of Canoes in New England

Paddling Through Time: The Long History of Canoes in New England
University of New Hampshire OLLI

When: June 30, 6:00pm - 7:30 PM ET on Zoom

For thousands of years, canoes were central to the lives of Native Americans in New England. Travel by canoe connected people within and between the major watersheds, creating social and economic alliances and distributing scarce resources to far-flung communities linked by ties of kinship and common culture. European settlers, traders, and explorers adopted Native canoe technology in the 17th and 18th centuries, and a few dozen dugout canoes have since been recovered from the bottoms of ponds and lakes across northern New England.

Presenter: Robert Goodby
Robert Goodby is a professor of anthropology at Franklin Pierce University and holds a Ph.D. from Brown University. For 40 years, he has studied Native American archaeological sites across New England. Goodby has served as president of the New Hampshire Archaeological Society and on the New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs. His book A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History received the 2021–2023 People’s Choice Award from the New Hampshire Writers’ Project.

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