Articles & Videos
With the opportunity of appearing in (articles, television series and Youtube videos), come browse the below hyperlinks and observe fascinating unique bushcraft survival techniques, including the making of birchbark canoes and traditional snowshoes.
Learn how to build miniature canoes with master Algonquin craftsman Pinock Smith
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(Youtube video, published on 7Apr2025)
Pinock Smith | WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories
Meet Pinock Smith. Working with only raw materials and traditional tribal methods, this gifted Algonquin craftsman builds birchbark canoes, toboggans, snowshoes, drums, and more. He has a passion for preserving and sharing ancestral skills through courses, demonstrations, and workshops. You may have seen him on tv before - he appeared in the television series "Bushcraft Survival," airing on Discovery. WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories is made possible by Carthage Hospital Walk-In Clinic, North Country Orthopedic Group, Claxton-Hepburn Hospital, and The Doctor D. Susan Badenhausen Legacy Fund of The Northern New York Community Foundation. Additional funding from the New York State Education Department.
(Youtube video, published on 21Feb2025)
The Art of Making Snowshoes - Ágimike with the Nagadjitòdjig Akì Guardians
Storyteller Dolcy Meness and fellow Nagadjitòdjig Akì Guardians learn how to make snowshoes, or “ágamike”, from traditional knowledge holder, Pinock Smith. Through this process Guardians celebrate the Anishinabe innovations, tools, and skills that are still used till this day. “I feel like it helps me get in touch with my culture by bringing me on the land and giving me the chance to interact with both wildlife and the environment around me.” - Corey Twenish Directed by Dolcy Meness, Nagadjitòdjig Akì Guardians Produced through the Land Needs Guardians Community Storytelling Project Learn more about the Nagadjitòdjig Akì Guardians at https://www.
(Youtube video, published on 10Apr2024)
Published by Saskatoon museum of Remai Modern. Algonquin canoe maker Pinock Smith from Kitigan Zibi, Québec, shows how his ancestors invented a canoe with only four elements from nature.
(Youtube video, published on 4Nov2023)
Did you know that the archaeological heritage of the National Capital Region covers some 8,000 years of history? We are at Leamy Lake Park. Under the direct supervision of NCC Archaeologist Ian Badgley and his team, amateur archaeologists can try their hand at uncovering artifacts. We will also hear from Pinock, an educator and birchbark canoe builder from the Algonquin Nation. The age of the artifacts from this particular dig site goes back 6000 years.
(Youtube video, published on 16Aug2022)
Monitoring Moose from the Sky with the Nagadjitòdjig Akì Guardians
When moose populations declined, the Nagadjitòdjig Akì Guardians in Kitigan Zibi took to the skies to monitor the situation and collect vital data on their territory. Thanks to that work, the data is now informing provincial policy on how to ensure the longterm health of the moose. “It’s going to take all of us working together to bring back these moose populations.” – Blythe Commando Directed by Dolcy Meness, Nagadjitòdjig Akì Guardians Produced through the Land Needs Guardians Community Storytelling Project Learn more about the Nagadjitòdjig Akì Guardians at https://www.kzanaturalresource.ca/
(Youtube video, published on 2Jun2022)
Pinock Smith: Birch Bark Canoe Making
Published by Saskatoon museum of Remai Modern.
(Museum article and video, published 8May2022)
Fireside with Lyndon Online: Pinock Smith and Rodney Sayers
Published by Saskatoon museum of Remai Modern.
(Museum article and video, published 27Jan2022)
Ray Mears – Bushcraft survival television series - Birch Bark Canoe - Season 2 - Episode 1:
Ray Mears with Algonquin canoe maker Pinock Smith, one of the few people left who knows how to craft birchbark canoes using traditional methods.
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- Part 2: https://youtu.be/
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(Youtube video, published on Dec2019)
Occupying a place at the Pimisi O-Train station in Ottawa.
The Pimisi O-Train Station in Ottawa is the installation Màmawi ‘Together’ featuring 100 paddles each hand-painted by Algonquin artists (including Pinock’s paddle) and arranged in the shape of a canoe on the ceiling of the station. The piece is inspired by the Algonquin teaching that ‘It takes many people to paddle a canoe’. Come read more about the project.
(Article project, 2019)
Celebrating Indigenous Learning at Carleton University. From February to May this year, a group of Carleton University students under the careful guidance of Daniel “Pinock” Smith, a well-known artist and canoe builder from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, learned how to build a wiigwaas chiimaan - a birchbark canoe
(Youtube video, published on 16Nov2017)
Students at an Ottawa University build an Algonquin Birchbark canoe to celebrate anniversary
Students at Carleton University in Ottawa are building an Algonquin Birchbark canoe. The project is part of the university’s upcoming anniversary, but for the students, it is so much more than that.
Filmed community members of Kitigan Zibi reserve, since the late 1980's and early 90's. Basil Smith a great Algonquin masters of the birchbark canoes passing on the knowledge to his nephew Pinock Smith.
(APTN National News article and video, published on 9Mar2017)
(Youtube video, published on 17Oct2012)
