You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ONE OF THE OLDEST-KNOWN Native American birch-bark canoes is displayed at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wayne Valliere and his apprentice Lawrence Mann use a handmade birchbark canoe and other traditional gear to spearfish. LAC DU ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wayne Valliere, Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe, smudges a birchbark canoe at the Northwestern University Sailing Center in Evanston, ...

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 northern Michigan resident makes canoes and other items the old-fashioned way. MIDLAND -- Michigan has abundant natural resources. For Jim A. Miller, such abundance is fuel for his art. The Chippewa ...

Ken Weeks owned a 900-square-foot apartment in Manhattan’s Alphabet City in 1999, but he was ready to party like it was 1799. Weeks worked at the Metropolitan Opera, which specializes in spectacle, as ...

Follow Grant Goltz & friends as they create a replica of an 1860’s Ojibwe birchbark canoe. Grant Goltz and Christy Hohman-Caine of Hackensack work alongside Jim Jones, a Leech Lake Band member of Cass ...

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

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 ...

The Lakes Region is dominated by watercraft. On the larger lakes, they have motors and are an elaborate transportation medium for fun, fishing or cruising. They can cost hundreds of thousands of ...

Wayne Valliere keeps Native American traditions alive by crafting birchbark canoes. As a young boy, Wayne Valliere’s grandmother said to him, “Your grandfathers are written throughout history. I ...