David Moses Bridges
David Moses Bridges (May 17, 1962 – January 20, 2017) was a Native American environmentalist and artist known for his traditional birchbark canoes and baskets. He was a member of the Passamaquoddy tribal community on the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation. Bridges fought for tribal environmental rights and was a co-founder of Mulankeyutmonen Nkihtakmikon, to preserve the Wabanaki culture.
He learned to build canoes from his great-grandfather Sylvester Gabriel and how to make baskets from his female relatives.
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