by JackiB | Dec 17, 2016 | La Compagnie Blog
We’re hardy modern voyageurs. We know that keeping our hands warm and dry when working outside during winter is important, very important. But how best to protect those digits when you’re reenacting the “little ice age” winters of the late 18th and early 19th...
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...
