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 ...

A young Membertou woman has a good reason to be showing up almost every day to help build a traditional Mi’kmaw birch bark canoe — thought to be the first in Unama’ki (Cape Breton) in about a hundred ...

This past Saturday, the Forest County Potawatomi hosted its third annual Anishinaabek Birchbark canoe gathering.

Wayne Valliere picks up a long, thin spruce root — lovingly soaked, stretched and whittled into ribbonlike smoothness. Normally, he would be using the root to sew a traditional Ojibwe canoe, but, for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAC DU FLAMBEAU - People along the shore were yelling "Good luck, Wayne!" as Wayne Valliere paddled into the starlit night aboard ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, a birchbark canoe cut through the icy waters of Lake Mendota, paddled by its maker, Wayne Valliere (Mino-giizhig in Ojibwe) of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Once ...

ESCANABA, Mich. (WLUC) - Members of the Escanaba Sault Tribe Community Building are constructing a birch bark canoe. Larry Godfrey says birch bark canoes are to native tribes like cars are to ...

Along the shore of the Nashwaak River, a tributary of the Wolastoq or St. John River, dozens of people gathered to celebrate the continuation of traditional canoe making when they attended the launch ...

Wayne Valliere picks up a long, thin spruce root — lovingly soaked, stretched and whittled into ribbonlike smoothness. Normally, he would be using the root to sew a traditional Ojibwe canoe, but, for ...