A birch bark canoe was assembled last week at the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians’ Escanaba Community Center, the ...

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 ...

ESCANABA, Mich. (WLUC) - Members of the Escanaba Sault Tribe Community Building are constructing a birch bark canoe. Larry ...

NETT LAKE (AP) -- While June Porter diligently stitches together the honey-colored birch bark forming the outside of the canoe, Hank Goodsky asks the young firetender how the ribs are doing. The ribs ...

When the birch bark canoe Chuck Commanda is building goes into the Wye River Thursday afternoon, it will provide a bridge to the past that goes back 4,500 years. Armed with the accumulated knowledge ...

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 ...

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," ...

Back in 2011, Grant Goltz of Hackensack and friends showed-off their hand-build birch bark canoes by paddling them into Outing. These practical works of art were a tremendous hit for visitors. They ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...