Perhaps no single item in the traditional economy combines finesse and craftsmanship better than the birch-bark canoe - historically the principal mode of transportation and cargo-freighting for ...

TOM BYERS' DARK, DUSTY CANOE WORKSHOP IS CLUTTERED WITH EVERYTHING EXCEPT POWER TOOLS. The accomplished backwoods builder shapes immaculate birchbark craft by axe, knife, awl, and bit brace.

What comes to mind most often is the typical birchbark canoe, which was more durable than might be first assumed and could be easily repaired with local natural materials found along the riverbank ...

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 ...

Working with birchbark has been a long tradition for tribes in the Midwest, however, there are concerns that it has become a ...

It's easy to picture what the Ojibwa saw in the 1400s when they first traveled in birchbark canoes to what is now Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park. Little here has changed since then and ...

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 ...

Including To Abei, a children's novel inspired by China's Li ethnic traditions, more than 2,500 Chinese children's books are ...