by JackiB | Apr 24, 2016 | La Compagnie Blog
We have a lot of stuff! Besides three canoes and a cariole, La Compagnie has over five dozen furs, assorted camping gear, including tents, tarps and flys, and several bales, boxes and cassettes full of trade goods. In a way, we’re a portable museum of the fur...
by La Compagnie | Apr 10, 2016 | La Compagnie Blog
Okay, you bought, borrowed or made enough clothes to get you to events. Nothing fine, nothing flashy, nothing unusual. You felt almost comfortable and learned to handle the inevitable question, “Why are you wearing those funny clothes?” ...
by MelissaP | Mar 19, 2016 | La Compagnie Blog
Winter was giving way to spring as more than a dozen members of La Compagnie gathered in Minneapolis for a moccasin making workshop. Since many of our events take place in traditional Ojibwe country and some of our members wear this style for work, we opted to make...
by La Compagnie | Jan 23, 2016 | La Compagnie Blog
Recently, I had a friend who was just getting started in historical reenacting ask about some books to read about the fur trade in Minnesota. I looked at my book shelf and came up with some ideas. Some classic, some basic, some scholarly. Lots of journals AND...
by La Compagnie | Oct 17, 2015 | La Compagnie Blog
Thousands of years ago, according to oral histories, the Anishinaabeg, or Ojibwe, followed a shell in the sky from the great waters of the East to “the place where the food grows on the water.” That food was wild rice, the only grain indigenous to North...
by La Compagnie | Oct 3, 2015 | La Compagnie Blog
On Saturday, July 25th, we had the pleasure of participating in the “Voyageur for a Day” special event at the Pierre Bottineau House, Elm Creek Park Reserve, Maple Grove, Minnesota. While waiting for visitors, the wonderful shade produced from the canoe...
