World travel for birch bark canoe 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 ...

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. The canoe ...

Ralph Frese, 85, owner of Chicagoland Canoe Base on Chicago's Northwest Side, is working in conjunction with a museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, to restore an old birch bark canoe. "This canoe is ...

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 ...

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," ...

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 ...

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The scent of spruce pitch sizzling over the fire in a tin pail fills the evening air as I gum the seams of a birch bark canoe for its maiden journey on Lake of the Woods. Having taken every ...

Evanston, Illinois—This morning at sunrise, a birchbark canoe was launched on the shores of Lake Michigan at Northwestern University—a first in hundreds of years. The canoe was built by Wayne Valliere ...

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 ...

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 ...