Georgian Bay youth are sharing Anishinaabe culture through language classes, hide tanning and an 850-person canoe-building ...

Charles Walker Raymond’s six-month mission in 1869 resulted in not only in the establishment of America’s newest trading post ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for an ancient route.

Hudson's Bay, Canada's oldest company, is seeking court permission to auction off its artifacts, art and even the royal ...

Much like how To Abei unravels the Li ethnic people's brocade-making heritage, The Birchbark Canoe, a children's novel inspired by China's Oroqen ethnic boat-making, has intrigued overseas ...

What were those first canoes like? The birch bark canoe and batteau (which is like a flat-bottom, wooden jon boat) were really the way people got around for both pleasure and for work when they ...

Carrie Hunter died on Saturday, April 5 at the age of 83 after a brief illness. This summer, the festival – which was renamed ...

“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 ...

the highly nomadic Athabascans were historically oriented to trade—traveling between winter villages and summer fish camps by way of traditional birch bark canoes, moose hide sleds, and dogs to ...