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 ...

It was hard for Jeff Savage to watch that traditional Ojibwe birch bark canoe be paddled off into the sunset over a Russian lake to its new home in Petrozavodsk -- but that, after all, was why he and ...

Birch bark canoes have been made in basically the same way by the Lake Superior Ojibwe for thousands of years, and were essential for collecting wild rice and for traveling on Lake Superior and rivers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Evanston, Illinois—This morning at sunrise, a birchbark canoe was launched on the shores of Lake Michigan at Northwestern University—a first in hundreds of years. The canoe was built by Wayne Valliere ...

DULUTH — Marvin DeFoe’s latest canoe will travel a lot farther than his first. DeFoe paddled his first birch bark canoe down the Mississippi River — as far as he could get, that is, before winter ...

DULUTH, Minn. - Marvin DeFoe's latest canoe will travel a lot farther than his first. DeFoe paddled his first birch bark canoe down the Mississippi River - as far as he could get, that is, before ...

Indigenous students and community members gathered at the beach outside the Northwestern Sailing Center on Friday morning to launch a hand-crafted birch bark canoe for its inaugural trip on Lake ...

LA POINTE, Wis. – The 20-minute ferry ride across Lake Superior’s clear, frigid waters from Bayfield to Madeline Island is a must-do in Wisconsin. But it’s more than a gateway to summer fun on the ...