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Indigenous canoe trip celebrating 400-year-old peace treaty culminates with UN event

More than 200 indigenous and non-indigenous canoe paddlers arrived in Manhattan today, after having travelled for almost two weeks down the Hudson River from upstate New York, to take part in an event at the United Nations to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.

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