There are several Ojibwe traditions I was taught concerning funerals and death. For instance, when I was growing up and somebody died, my mother would crinkle up a little strip of birch bark like ...

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 ...

Although the birch-bark canoe today has been supplanted by wooden, metal, and plastic boats, a handful of Ojibwe craftsmen still retain the important knowledge of all the steps in its traditional ...

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 ...

Photo by Monroe P. Killy.[/image_caption] In 1904, along Portage Lake, in a birch-bark-and-cattail wigwam, a baby named Naawakamigookwe (Middle of the Earth Woman, also called Maude) was born to ...

Wayne Valliere and his team pour hot water on the canoe to soften the wood while constructing a traditional Ojibwe canoe, Oct. 25, 2021. Valliere, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts heritage ...

LEECH LAKE RESERVATION, Minn.—When you’re an artist working in porcupine quills, pain comes with the palette. The quills—needle-like animal hair— are sharp and barbed. &#822… ...

And the list goes on: floral beadwork and birch bark basketry handcrafted by Ojibwe artisans are displayed in state and county museums, artist studios, tourist shops, and Minnesota homes; Ojibwe ...

The canoe’s launch site sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires — the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa — and the Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations.

Wayne Valliere constructs a traditional Ojibwe canoe Monday, Oct. 25, 2021 inside an academic building at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Facebook Twitter ...