World Snowshoe Day
Indigenous Peoples across Canada invented snowshoes thousands of years before anyone else thought to strap something flat to their feet. It was genius. It still is.
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Indigenous Peoples across Canada invented snowshoes thousands of years before anyone else thought to strap something flat to their feet. It was genius. It still is.
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