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 ...