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 ...

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 ...

The Ojibwe survived, thanks in part to their birchbark canoes, which sliced through the water like knives, and were well adapted to spearfishing and transporting moose carcasses after a hunt.

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 ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine – 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.

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 ...

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 ...

The canoe is likely the first of its kind to be launched in Lake Michigan since the Ojibwe were forced out of the region by the Treaty of Chicago of 1833. Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/TNS Facebook ...