BIGFORK, Minn. - In his dilapidated workshop steeped in cedar sawdust and family history, Ray Boessel frets over his role in keeping a centuries-old craft alive. The craft is building birchbark canoes ...

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 ...

Ken Weeks owned a 900-square-foot apartment in Manhattan’s Alphabet City in 1999, but he was ready to party like it was 1799. Weeks worked at the Metropolitan Opera, which specializes in spectacle, as ...

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," ...

Wayne Valliere, an artist-in-residence at Northwestern University and one of only a handful of Native birchbark canoe builders left in the U.S., constructs an elaborate 16-foot canoe. ICE took her ...

KENNEBUNK — The Brick Store Museum at 117 Main St. in Kennebunk will host Butch Phillips, tribal elder of the Penobscot Indian Nation, for his presentation on the "Building and Use of a Traditional ...

The thing you need to know about peeling bark from a birch tree on a hot summer morning is this, and it has nothing to do with canoe building. Like a small advancing army, the woodticks scamper up ...

New York City natives Adam Wicks-Arshack and John Zinser were boatbuilding neophytes before September 2008, when they paddled into the wilderness of northern Ontario in one canoe and came out a month ...

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 ...