NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the native was quick with a quip. "You know they make those in Fiberglas now," ...

NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the elder was quick with a quip. Talon Stammen of Grand Forks, N.D., built his ...

LANSING — When Tom Byers first laid eyes on a birch bark canoe, it wasn’t what he saw that captivated him most. It was what he heard. “I hesitate to say the canoe spoke to me, but that’s what happened ...

CAMBRIDGE - Over centuries, Wabanaki Indians mastered the art of building birch bark canoes that embodied the traditional crafts of their 12,000-year-old culture. A new exhibition at the Peabody ...

LAC DU FLAMBEAU - Wayne Valliere, whose Ojibwe name is Mino-Giizhig, had to turn to historical artifacts and ethnographies at the Smithsonian museums to help him revive some of the Anishinaabe culture ...

LAC DU FLAMBEAU - People along the shore were yelling “Good luck, Wayne!” as Wayne Valliere paddled into the starlit night aboard his torch-laden birchbark canoe equipped with a handmade spear. One of ...