Most scholars generally agree with the 19th-century artist George Catlin that the Ojibwe more than any other people raised canoe-building to a fine art. Although the birch-bark canoe today has ...

Patrick Kruse is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa ... of bark goes to waste either. Kruse says he uses leftover pieces to create smaller artworks or to make baskets. “ ...

He creates and embellishes baskets and containers made from ... Borrowing from the Ojibwe tradition of birch bark etching, students create India ink or crayon etchings, using imagery to suggest ...

Like a birchbark basket, the film weaves together scenes from the Ojibwe and Karelian ... trees in every season: tapping birch sap in the spring, collecting bark off soon-to-be logged trees ...