WADENA, Minn. — Wadena-Deer Creek senior Cody Wheeler was down to the deadline to decide what his woodworking project was going to be for his shop class last winter. A last-minute decision brought him ...

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," ...

"The canoe implies a long antiquity in which its manufacture has been gradually perfected. It will ere long, perhaps, be ranked among the lost arts." — Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods The ...

As a paddler living in Red Wing, Minnesota, I have spent many enjoyable hours cruising the beautiful rivers and lakes located just a few miles from my home. Last winter, while the ice thickened and ...

Wayne Valliere picks up a long, thin spruce root — lovingly soaked, stretched and whittled into ribbonlike smoothness. Normally, he would be using the root to sew a traditional Ojibwe canoe, but, for ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --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 ...

Morley would build a canoe, run it hard, find its flaws, sell it and use the cash to build a better boat. For years, he kept refining his craft this way, perfecting his canoes, experimenting with ...

MONTEVIDEO -- Whether the preferred mode of travel is by boat, hiking shoes or all-terrain-vehicle, our means of getting around in the great outdoors is usually the product of modern industry. Not so ...

For the first time in nearly 400 years, a birch bark canoe was reintroduced to the Chicago-area shore of Lake Michigan (Mishigami). Only six Ojibwe birch bark canoe builders still exist in the Great ...

Whatever floats your boat (no pun intended). That’s what they say when it comes to the wide variety of unique, underground, and sometimes just downright weird things that interest people. Like canoes, ...

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 ...