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

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 ...

The birch bark canoe Talon Stammen of Grand Forks built at the Northwest Angle is a hunting-style canoe designed to carry heavy loads. Stammen, 18, harvested the materials and used traditional ...

Bark canoes were traditionally built outdoors, with stakes driven into the ground forming the overhead view of the canoe. Byers uses a permanent, indoor building bed to work at waist height. 3.

It’s one of few early birch bark canoes still in existence because of the fragility of the material. The 16½-foot canoe had spent the last three decades in a barn, Vigue said.

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 ...

The 100-yard heron was lifting off again. That was about as close as he was going to let us get. We would come paddling around a bend in the Bigfork River and see him up ahead, patrolling the shall… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Canadian Canoe Museum celebrated National Canoe Day with several activities at the museum, as well as on Little Lake, ...