Instructors taught kids how Native Americans made birchbark canoes before teaching them how to make miniature versions out of ...

From 2012: Grand Forks teen builds birch bark canoe using traditional tools NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building ...

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 ...

A bark canoe is only one man's load; he turns it upside down, and walks with it on his head. A man toiling across a portage in this attitude is a somewhat grotesque sight, suggesting a monstrous ...

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 his urge to plan the trip, and ...

Bill Hafeman built his first bark canoe in 1921, the year he moved up to Bigfork. He lived four hours by canoe from town, and paddling was the most dependable way to get to town.

This centuries-old canoe was critical piece of Wabanaki life The birch-bark canoe is on display in Brunswick and the type is still built today.

Learn 8 steps to a bark canoe in our Forest Alchemist feature from the June issue of Canoe & Kayak magazine.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Catalogue ledger book lists this as ...

BRUNSWICK One of the oldest-known examples of a Native American birch-bark canoe is on display at a museum in Brunswick, where indigenous tribes have used them for thousands of years. The canoe ...

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.

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 ...