Ralph Frese, 85, owner of Chicagoland Canoe Base on Chicago's Northwest Side, is working in conjunction with a museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, to restore an old birch bark canoe. "This canoe is ...

The scent of spruce pitch sizzling over the fire in a tin pail fills the evening air as I gum the seams of a birch bark canoe for its maiden journey on Lake of the Woods. Having taken every ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BRUNSWICK — One of the oldest-known examples of a Native American birch-bark ...

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," ...

Canoe-quality birch has become a rarity. The bark must be harvested from a large, straight and healthy tree with an outer bark at least a quarter-inch thick. Logging and disease have made those trees ...

About 30 people attended the ceremony. Perley-Dutcher built the canoe under a program called, Under One Sky, which is a Wabanaki Land Based Program designed to bring Indigenous practices and skills ...

World travel for birch bark canoe Marvin DeFoe paddled his first birch bark canoe part way down the Mississippi River. He didn't make it all that far -- at 18, his urge to get going was stronger than ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine – One of the oldest-known Native American birch-bark canoes will go on display at a Maine historical society museum, possibly as early as this fall, after spending three decades in a ...

The bark canoe of the Chippeways [Ojibwe] I is, perhaps, the most beautiful and light model of all the water crafts that were ever invented. They are generally made complete with the rind of one birch ...

For the first time in nearly 400 years, a birch bark canoe was reintroduced to the Chicago-area shore of Lake Michigan (Mishigami). Only six Ojibwe birch bark canoe builders still exist in the Great ...

Ralph Frese, 85, owner of Chicagoland Canoe Base on Chicago's Northwest Side, is working in conjunction with a museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, to restore an old birch bark canoe. "This canoe is ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — One of the oldest-known Native American birch-bark canoes will go on display at a Maine historical society museum, possibly as early as this fall, after spending three decades ...