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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We would use birchbark on a daily basis, from gathering to preserving our food and water, our canoes, our shelter. We'd use it for medicine. We'd even use it to record our teachings 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 ...