He purchased his first canoe in 1960 and his second canoe in 1961 – a 1909 Old Town wood/canvas “Ideal ... along with a ...

Piloting it was Jesse Tibbetts, a 56-year-old Ojibwe former canoe racer from Ball Club, Minn., a small town on the Mississippi that, like Lake Winnibigoshish, sits within the Leech Lake Reservation.