Although the birch-bark canoe today has been supplanted by wooden ... is a professor of the Ojibwe language at Bemidji State University in Minnesota and had demonstrated his canoe-building ...

Grant Goltz and Christy Hohman-Caine of Hackensack work alongside Jim Jones, a Leech Lake Band member of Cass Lake, to create a replica of a canoe documented from the 1860s. The group of ...

to the ruggedness of a seagoing cedar canoe, from cleverly assembled birch bark, to the shiny fiberglass, or the comfy inflatable. Early explorers and voyageurs took their cue from the Aboriginal ...

straight white birch trees with a trunk diameter of at least 12 inches are scarce. Byers uses a ladder to strip the bark-preferably in the spring, when it's easier to peel. 2. SITE. Bark canoes ...