Fur Trade Reenactment
Presented by Friends of Interstate Park - Wisconsin at Interstate State Park - Wisconsin, Saint Croix FallsJune 7, 2025
Isaac Walters and Gene Tesdahl will share fur trade history from their wigwaas jimaan (Ojibwe language for birchbark canoe) to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Interstate Park, WI.
They will sing French paddling songs and display artifacts in their hands-on 1790s canoe camp. Walters and Tesdahl met as National Park Service rangers on the Grand Portage Ojibwe Reservation in Northern Minnesota. They have been providing historical re-enactments across the country for 30 years. When not...
[more+]Isaac Walters and Gene Tesdahl will share fur trade history from their wigwaas jimaan (Ojibwe language for birchbark canoe) to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Interstate Park, WI.
They will sing French paddling songs and display artifacts in their hands-on 1790s canoe camp. Walters and Tesdahl met as National Park Service rangers on the Grand Portage Ojibwe Reservation in Northern Minnesota. They have been providing historical re-enactments across the country for 30 years. When not interpreting the fur trade, Isaac Walters serves as a middle school instructional coach in Holmen, Wisconsin, and Dr. Tesdahl teaches early American history at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Come be part of history!
(In case of heavy rains, presentation will be in the Ice Age Center Auditorium.)
Presented with the generous funding from Royal Credit Union.
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Interstate State Park - Wisconsin 
State Highway 35, Saint Croix Falls, WI 54024