It’s one of few early birch bark canoes still in existence because of the fragility of the material. The 16½-foot canoe had spent the last three decades in a barn, Vigue said.

Canoe builders have a trained eye for picking out a "canoe birch-bark tree," which ideally should be some 50-60 ... the ribs are still quite brittle and easily broken. (Canoe-builders always ...

Fortunately, a local wooden canoe builder came to the rescue with an ample supply of new cedar sheathing and enthusiastic support. Ron Pellinen sold me about 15 linear feet of immaculate, knot ...

The birchbark for canoes was peeled from trees during springtime when the bark was at its thickest state, and was sewn together over a cedar framework using spruce roots. Pine gum was used for ...

Follow Grant Goltz & friends as they create a replica of an 1860’s Ojibwe birchbark canoe. Grant Goltz and Christy Hohman-Caine of Hackensack work alongside Jim Jones, a Leech Lake Band member ...

Erik Simula embodies leadership by nature — natural leadership qualities conducted in the natural world. It began with his Finnish upbringing on a small family farm near Duluth. His exposure to ...

One of the oldest-known examples of a Native American birch-bark canoe is on display at a museum in Maine, where indigenous tribes have used them for thousands of years.

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He also has two birch bark canoes: a 16-foot half-scale model of a 32-foot historic Voyageur-style fur trading canoe, along with a 13-foot Ojibway hunter’s canoe.

Native Americans have been making these canoes for 3,000 years. But only a few of the earliest ones still exist because birch bark is so fragile, says Laurie LaBar, chief curator of history and ...

The birch bark canoe Talon Stammen of Grand Forks built at the Northwest Angle is a hunting-style canoe designed to carry heavy loads. Stammen, 18, harvested the materials and used traditional ...