On canoes building community The value in sharing traditional birchbark canoe-building, such as the summerlong community project at the Ely Folk School, goes beyond learning skills.

From 2012: Grand Forks teen builds birch bark canoe using traditional tools NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building ...

Those elders taught him the skill of birch bark canoe building, once passed from generation to generation along the Great Lakes. It's a tradition that started to disappear as Native Americans were ...

Wayne Valliere, an artist-in-residence at Northwestern University and one of only a handful of Native birchbark canoe builders left in the U.S., constructs an elaborate 16-foot canoe.

Marvin DeFoe paddled his first birch bark canoe part way down the Mississippi River. He didn't make it all that far -- at 18, his urge to get going was stronger than his urge to plan the trip, and ...

When the birch bark canoe Chuck Commanda is building goes into the Wye River Thursday afternoon, it will provide a bridge to the past that goes back 4,500 years.

Come check out the activities taking place for the 19th annual Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail Festival. Day and evening programs run ...

Isabelle Hardlotte said it was emotional when the canoe was returned as she remembers helping build it as a young girl.

New book pulls together the canoe's evolution, from birchbark to wood-and-canvas and on ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — There are only a few people left in the U.S. who know the Native American skill of building birch bark canoes. One of them is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — There are only a few people left in the U.S. who know the Native American skill of building birch bark canoes. One of them is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — There are only a few people left in the U.S. who know the Native American skill of building birch bark canoes. One of them is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern ...