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 ...

It's Chuck Commanda's contention that if birch bark canoes did not exist, Canada would have evolved vastly differently. "If it weren't for the birch bark canoe, these Europeans, the newcomers, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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World travel for birch bark canoe 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 ...

The scent of spruce pitch sizzling over the fire in a tin pail fills the evening air as I gum the seams of a birch bark canoe for its maiden journey on Lake of the Woods. Having taken every ...

LANSING — When Tom Byers first laid eyes on a birch bark canoe, it wasn’t what he saw that captivated him most. It was what he heard. “I hesitate to say the canoe spoke to me, but that’s what happened ...

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 ...

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 ...