EditorialRyoma Mogi paddles a traditional Ainu canoe on Lake Poroto, at the Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, Japan on June 14, 2023. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialA canoe paddles down the Rivers of America in Frontierland at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., April 1, 2023. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialA canoe paddles down the Rivers of America in Frontierland at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., April 1, 2023. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialA canoe paddles down the Rivers of America in Frontierland at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., April 1, 2023. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialA fisherman paddles his canoe past a house submerged by floodwater in Bentiu, South Sudan on Feb. 1, 2023. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialMeskwaki braves using blankets as sails as they ride in dugout canoes on the river, squaws steering with paddles. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.