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Donna Loring interviews tribal historian James Francis and Penobscot elder Butch Phillips about Penobscot culture and canoe building.

Donna Loring speaks with James Francis: tribal historian and director of the Penobscot Nation Cultural Center, and Rueben "Butch" Phillips a Penobscot elder and master Birch Bark canoe builder.

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