For thousands of years the Secwepemc peoples would build canoes for travel. However everything the ancestors did in the past was utilized as a teaching tool, whether it was sewing together a basket or preparing food it was used to tell or teach a lesson. Brenda Celesta an employee of school district number 73 of Kamloops bc. knew this fact and used the building of a canoe to cross curricular the curriculum and some life lessons.
