At 01:42 PM 5/21/98 -0400, Sisler, Clyde wrote: > Oh, I get it. The Alaskan Eskimos have always paddled canoes >while the Seminole Indians in Florida have always paddled Canadian >canoes. I'm a little fuzzy though, on how the Canadian canoes got all >the way down to Florida. That would be an interesting story. 'Taint a canoe or a canadian..it's a bateau or pirogue..wish I knew the Calusa word for it. Nowaday's it's mostly a johnboat though, and made of aluminum. Seriously, the Seminoles and their predecessors (the Calusa, Timucua, etc.), along with many of the other deep SE US talwas (call 'em tribes if you want) used dugout type craft, not what most folks would call a canoe or canadian. SE pre-Columbian conjecture (can't call it history..nobody knows for sure) is one of my areas of fascination. Did some research with a guy who "wrote the book" (or at least one of them) on Historical SE watercraft. Need to dig out the copy of his dissertation he gave me. Wynne Americus, GA USA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu May 21 1998 - 20:54:05 PDT
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