ESCANABA, Mich. (WLUC) - Members of the Escanaba Sault Tribe Community Building are constructing a birch bark canoe. Larry ...

NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the native was quick with a quip. "You know they make those in Fiberglas now," ...

BIGFORK, Minn. - In his dilapidated workshop steeped in cedar sawdust and family history, Ray Boessel frets over his role in keeping a centuries-old craft alive. The craft is building birchbark canoes ...

Wayne Valliere keeps Native American traditions alive by crafting birchbark canoes. As a young boy, Wayne Valliere’s grandmother said to him, “Your grandfathers are written throughout history. I ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --There are only a few people left in the U.S. who know the Native American skill of building birch bark canoes. One of them is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern ...

NETT LAKE (AP) -- While June Porter diligently stitches together the honey-colored birch bark forming the outside of the canoe, Hank Goodsky asks the young firetender how the ribs are doing. The ribs ...

LAC DU FLAMBEAU - People along the shore were yelling “Good luck, Wayne!” as Wayne Valliere paddled into the starlit night aboard his torch-laden birchbark canoe equipped with a handmade spear. One of ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ONE OF THE OLDEST-KNOWN Native American birch-bark canoes is displayed at ...

Follow Grant Goltz & friends as they create a replica of an 1860’s Ojibwe birchbark canoe. Grant Goltz and Christy Hohman-Caine of Hackensack work alongside Jim Jones, a Leech Lake Band member of Cass ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — There are only a few people left in the U.S. who know the Native American skill of building birch bark canoes. One of them is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern ...