In 2023, adventurer and writer Freddie Wilkinson embarked on a ~15,000-mile “big-ass canoe” trip together with a group of other paddlers from  different first nations within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, including Ryan Ranco Kelly of the Penobscot Nation in Maine. Ryan and Freddie share stories from the adventure, which will also feature in a book Freddie is writing for National Geographic on the history of the canoe.