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 ...

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… ...

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.

In 1981, Boessel built his first bark canoe and apprenticed with Hafeman for the next three years. By then, Hafeman's birchbark canoes already were well-known.

Sports; Outdoors; Bark is back. John Lindman 53, birch bark canoe builder, instructor. Sun., Feb. 5, 2006 John Lindman cuts the bark at the end of a birch bark canoe at the Bark Canoe Store in ...

When “Den Amerikanska Näverbåten” (American Bark Canoes) was published in 1753, the small booklet became Europe’s first manual on constructing birch-bark canoes.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...