Not all Algonquian tribes lived near watercourses so not all built any kind of canoe. Many Algonquian-speaking tribes such as the Powhatan built only dugout canoes from tree trunks, using controlled fires and stone or shell scrapers.
A few of the eastern woodlands tribes, mainly in the north-east region, built beautiful canoes using wooden frames covered with birch bark sealed with resin and gum. They included the Ojibwe, Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Naskapi, eastern Cree, Algonkin and central Cree. Each tribe made their canoes in a distinctive tribal shape.
As for why they made these canoes, the answer is simply that they made best use of available resources and the resulting canoes were the very best type of craft for transport by water. Iroquois canoes, both dugouts and those covered with elm bark, are considered very inferior in quality to birch bark canoes.
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Why are birch bark canoes important?
Bark is a tree's natural armor and protects from external threats. Bark also has several physical functions, one is ridding the tree of wastes by absorbing and locking them into its dead cells and resins. Also, the bark's phloem transports large quantities of nutrients throughout the tree.
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i do believe they use the bark that they cut off the tree for paper.But i don't know the real answer to that question.
the birch bark makes the canoe sturdier :)
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The Advantages were they could move faster
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they were made by the Iroquois. Iroquois canoe was made out of birch-bark and sometimes tree trunks it depends.
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For example: My dog loves to bark at the mailman. The rabbits had stripped the bark from all around the base of the new tree. The canoe was made of birch bark and pine pitch. His bark was worse than his bite.
The California Intermount Indians made the Birch Bark canoes. They used them for getting from one end of a lake, or river and (or) back.
Birch bark is not a living organism, however the birch tree, where birch bark comes from, is.
Years ago, before the Europeans arrived, the Natives of north America that lived beside the rivers and lakes, developed a canoe whose skin was the bark of the birch tree. Birch bark can be stripped from the tree in such a way as to make long wide unbroken lengths of bark that can be laid onto the frame of a wooden canoe. Birch bark is water proof (as is all bark) and is also light enough to make carrying the canoe an easier task than the old idea of hollowing out a log.
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